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- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (3 Dec 2019) Anne Rabbitte: It is a good point. People are asking.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (3 Dec 2019) Anne Rabbitte: Deputy Sherlock has asked about the guardian ad litemBill and I wish to ask about the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. This may be an opportunity to ask the Minister where we are going with it.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (3 Dec 2019) Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. That is welcome.
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: Amendment No. 12.
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: It is.
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the opportunity to speak on Report Stage. I will lump all my remarks into one contribution because I do not wish to hold matters up. I did my own research before coming into the House tonight. Unlike Deputy Healy-Rae, my research indicated that people who organise community bingo games have to have the money laid out in advance. They have to know what it will cost them to run a...
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: That is the one piece that has incited many community bingos in this regard. There has been a lot of information, but it is such detailed and complex legislation that perhaps some people got only one side of the story. I would welcome hearing that clarification tonight. The jackpot and the rollover is a huge part of the issue, and this would also feed into the GAA clubs. On the issue...
- Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: I will tell you for nothing that my phone was hot all day yesterday. Apparently, I was responsible for, and I was aiding and abetting in, preventing the women of Ireland from playing bingo. I certainly would never want that to happen. This is why clarification is important. Whatever the agenda was behind the miscommunication, it was absolutely appalling that it wanted to convince the...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abuse (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the issue of changing references to child pornography in legislation to child sexual abuse material to reflect the reality of the harm suffered and the crime being committed in the material has been investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50528/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abuse (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason his Department has not changed the term "child pornography" regarding child sexual abuse material across relevant legislation to reflect the reality of the harm suffered and the crime being committed in the material; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50432/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abuse (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: 132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Bills which would need to be amended if references to the term child pornography were changed to child sexual abuse material; his plans to update the legislation to make such changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50433/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank Mr. Tennant for his opening presentation. It is much appreciated. In his conclusion, Mr. Tennant stated Scouting Ireland is different. He referred to issues raised in the RTÉ programme on historical child abuse matters in scouting. How is this the case when one of those accused who was referred to in the RTÉ programme was a volunteer in the organisation up until 2018?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: This time last year when Mr. Tennant sat in front of the committee, I asked a clear question as to whether there were any members in Scouting Ireland at that moment who were involved in any historical cases. The answer I got that day was “No”. Why am I to believe Mr. Tennant today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank Dr. Lawlor. Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, the former special rapporteur on child protection, has said any review must be independent, prompt, effective and transparent. Ian Elliott is currently working on his report into the historic abuse in the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland, CBSI, and the Scout Association of Ireland, SAI. How independent can his review be, as someone who was formerly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: Will the report Mr. Elliott is doing be put in the public domain or is it for Scouting Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: Specifically, will the learning review be put into the public domain? I accept Mr. Tennant has said it will be given to the Minister, but will we have access to it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: My question is whether it will be put in the public domain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: All right. That is okay. Are there any people involved in the broader review team that have been in positions where they were the recipients of allegations of abuse?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: I refer to the broader review team.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (4 Dec 2019)
Anne Rabbitte: Mr. Elliott did not just go in and pick up the files and sit down in a room all on his own. He would have conferred with people and asked people for signposting and direction.