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Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 8:In page 18, to delete lines 26 to 30 and substitute the following:“ “relevant person” means—(a) a person whose capacity to consent to a sexual act is called into question, or (b) a person who lacks capacity to consent to a sexual act,and it states that a relevant person’s lack of capacity to consent for the purposes of this Act may...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: Exactly.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: I support amendment No. 10 which provides for the deletion of a section inserted by the Tánaiste in respect of the criminalisation of the purchase of sex. We propose to remove something the Tánaiste is proposing. It is surprising that people would turn that on its head and choose to translate it into suggesting we propose to remove protections for sex workers. Everyone here is...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: Our amendment does not reintroduce the offence of soliciting. There is an offence of soliciting as it stands, and if our amendment were passed, the situation would be exactly the same tomorrow. If the Minister amended that legislation, we would happily support her. These issues should not be in this legislation. What could have been a really good Bill with really positive protective...

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency (1 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: 45. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that the number of claims for which damages were paid in maternity services cases jumped from 15 in 2007 to 101 in 2015, an almost seven-fold increase in eight years; if this increase is linked to staff and resource cutbacks over that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4262/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (1 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: 114. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will review and upgrade the current model of service delivery for children with autism, in view of the fact that numbers of children are currently being blocked from receiving vital developmental services such as speech therapy [4261/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Military Aircraft Landings (1 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: 161. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of formal requests for the search of military planes by An Garda Síochána at Shannon Airport which have been acceded to in the each of the years 2014 to 2016. [4886/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (1 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: 262. To ask the Minister for Health the provision that has been made to ensure that a Catholic ethos will not impinge on clinical care or decisions at the new national maternity hospital on the St Vincent's University Hospital campus; and the steps the Government has taken to ensure that the ethos of the hospital will be independent of religious influence. [4761/17]

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: I intend to move amendment No. 23. We have looked at this entire issue the wrong way around. Rather than start with data, evidence and research and then deciding what policy to adopt, we started with a model that was an alleged solution and we are talking about carrying out a review after the event. That is regrettable. It contrasts sharply with the approach taken in the UK where a...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: The reason we concentrated on those people who engage in sexual activity for the exchange of money on a consensual basis rather than those who were coerced into it is that that is the legislation we are dealing with here today. Substantial bodies of legislation already exist to deal with people who are coerced or trafficked into this activity. The Minister, I or other people may not like...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: Is there not a third round when one is proposing an amendment?

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: There is a group of amendments.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: There is a group of amendments.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: Each Deputy proposed an amendment. I am not being funny-----

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: -----and I am not saying that everyone in our group should be allowed come in again, but one person from each group can come in.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: And the two minutes, but there is another two minutes.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: We all proposed amendments.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: Deputy Smith has not.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: Why can he speak but I cannot?

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: That is why I was asking.