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Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: My apologies for wanting to return to my earlier comments but this Bill is as much about enforcement and here is a section dealing with fines. The report I referred to earlier, which the Minister of State did not allude to, has indicated serious inadequacies in the manner in which child pornography crimes and sexual crimes against children are followed up. For example, there is no...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I will be brief in the context of the Government's proposals. I am at a loss to understand why this is happening. I appreciate the Minister of State has outlined that this is standard across various pieces of legislation. However, I refer to what has been happening with our nearest neighbour, the UK, with some very high profile cases relating to child pornography and operation yew tree....

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I know that in practice it is being left to the Judiciary to decide if it will be a fine or imprisonment, but as far as I am aware the amendment is changing the original sanction which was a mandatory jail term, unless the Minister of State can tell me otherwise. To delete "to the imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years" and substitute "to a fine or imprisonment for a term not...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: No, he was not.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I bow to the greater expertise of Senator Bacik on legal matters. A little like Senator Norris, I am a simple human being.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: If one views the section in its entirety, it is not about individual crimes, that is, one individual exploiting a child, but about group paedophilia. It is about obtaining, providing, etc., a child for the purpose of sexual exploitation in which money changes hands. The section refers to obtaining a child for himself, herself or another person and provides for a sentence "on conviction on...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: No. I want clarification.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am sorry but because of Senator Norris's contribution I do not know what the Minister of State said about the fines and imprisonment in terms of the core of the argument we made on the section. Can the Minister of State repeat what he said?

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We are on the section.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: No, the Senator will not be brief. She does not know what brief means.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: It is an understatement to say the ongoing images being transmitted on our television screens on the flooding of the Shannon, from Lough Allen right down to, and more acutely on, the third lake on the Shannon, Lough Derg, are raising considerable concern. One has only got to look at the images coming out of Athlone and further down river, and in south Galway, at the devastation that has been...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The Government is making it easier.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Was Senator Bacik listening to me? I stated there are 700 fewer gardaí in Dublin than there was last year.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am interrupting Senator Bacik because she is not listening. The Senator is merely doing the Government's spin.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: There are 700 fewer gardaí on the streets of Dublin where the Senator lives.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Why does Senator Bacik not answer that?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Is this a party political speech?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The Senator is abusing his position in the House with a party political speech.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: This is a terrible abuse.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The Cathaoirleach should have a word with Senator Jim D'Arcy.