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- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (1 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in relation to the visa application in respect of a person (details supplied) which is the subject of a review by his Department under the scheme of family reunification, he will ensure that a review decision is made. [21368/06]
- Written Answers — School Enrolments: School Enrolments (1 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that a school (details supplied) in County Wexford has an enrolment quota of 270 pupils for 2006; if, in the event that this quota is not fully taken up by applicants from the school's catchment area, the school will be permitted to enrol, up to the quota limit, applicants who reside outside the catchment area;...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: At long last.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: He has done nothing over the past six months.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: We only have 30 minutes for Committee and Report Stages.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: It is what the Minister told us yesterday.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I will need injury time.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I take it that this is injury time.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: This emergency sitting of the Dáil marks the end of a bleak and depressing ten days for the criminal justice system and for political leadership and authority. To claim that last week's Supreme Court decision came like a bolt from the blue is frankly unbelievable and unacceptable. We have walked similar paths before and were promised that systems had been put in place to ensure that a...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: It is the Government that is putting children in the dock for acts which this day are not criminal but which will be by this evening. It is not illegal today, nor has it been in the history of the State, for a 16 year old boy and girl to engage in consenting sexual acts other than intercourse. This is about to change. By this evening it will be a serious criminal offence that might have these...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Bill introduces a confusing anomaly which may undermine the law of incest in that incestuous intercourse under this Bill with a child over 15 years is punishable with ten years, which is less than the protection offered by the law of incest. The Bill is presented as a protected measure but it decriminalises a number of acts with children that are currently offences. For example, if a 60...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister should listen to the argument and debate the point. He should give us the time to ensure-ââ
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister is so knowledgeable about everything.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: One day we can all go home and let the Minister who knows everything and who is not only the authority of the Supreme Court and the law but also the people, to dictate by law.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister will defend creating this gap in the law.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The people want to hear us debate the issues and not defend our inflated egos, as some have done.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister is little short of a disgrace.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I will not deign to respond to a personal insult from a man who is so bereft of any authority, moral or otherwise, at this stage.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister's credentials as a champion of equality fall entirely under section 5. After the rush to finality is over and the facts emerge from the fog of Government incompetence, the parents of Ireland will be in for a major shock when they realise the Government is criminalising boys and not girls for consensual sex. The Government seems to think that the rights of boys are of lesser order...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Brendan Howlin: It is not right. Will the Minister listen to the argument and then debate it on Committee Stage?