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Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: Will the Minister double-check, before the Bill goes to the Seanad, that that is the case, as she has set out?

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: My interpretation is different. I accept the Minister's bona fides.

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 20: In page 18, to delete lines 9 to 36. On foot of the Minister's assurance, I will withdraw the amendment.

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 34: In page 20, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(c) in subsection (4), after “respondent” where it secondly occurs, to insert the following: “or protecting the victim of previous crimes from harassment”,”. We discussed this in detail privately. The amendment related to protecting the victims of...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 38: In page 30, after line 35, to insert the following: “30.The Minister shall, within 90 days of the passing of this Act, make regulations under section 60 of the Act of 2018 making it an offence to erase information regarding convictions for sexual offences as set out in section 3 of the Principal Act.”. We are moving on to the two final amendments...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I only have a short period of time but, for example, on 13 November Shane Phelan published an article entitled "Pimps and sex offenders among those using 'right to be forgotten". In the article he pointed out that "press coverage of the activities of a criminal who was behind a multi-million-euro vice ring has been 'forgotten' by Google following requests under EU privacy law...". He went...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: Grand.

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I withdraw the amendment on that basis.

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 39: In page 30, after line 35, to insert the following: “30.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on how registered sex offenders are able to change their name or other aspects of their identity without the knowledge of the Garda Síochána with the intention of subverting the...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: The people who the Minister has been talking to in the Garda and those to whom I have been talking to are very different. I have been talking to people who are enforcing this at the coalface. There is a requirement, within three days of people changing their name by deed poll, to notify a divisional Garda headquarters somewhere in the country. This comes back to the argument we had at the...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister and her officials for their engagement on this. The legislation has been in the offing for the past 13 years. I thank the Minister's predecessors, Alan Shatter, Frances Fitzgerald and Deputy Flanagan, for the work that they did to progress this legislation. I thank the officials and their predecessors who I dealt with over the years with regard to this. It has caused...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: The programme for Government committed to fast-tracking the national broadband plan because, thanks to Covid, there was a realisation at long last that delivering broadband to every home in Ireland has the potential to transform our economy, and nowhere more so than in rural Ireland. We witnessed a spike in local house prices as high-tech jobs relocated from the Dublin docks to rural...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: Sadly, the Minister still has not acknowledged that remote working has an impact on reducing our climate emissions. The national broadband plan will deliver fibre to rural areas and families, who will come off the existing fibre broadband services. That provides an opportunity to improve the quality of wireless broadband services to families who are further down the list in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (20 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 242. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he and his officials have had with regard to the present civil war in Tigray, Ethiopia; the measures that are being taken at EU and UN level to bring about a ceasefire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52678/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (20 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 393. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the definition of separate agricultural activities under the local improvement scheme which applies to works on private roads; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52618/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I refer to motion No. 152 on the Order Paper. I seek the Taoiseach's direct intervention in the humanitarian crisis facing eight families in Ballagh and Lisfelim in the area of south Roscommon. Along with six of my colleagues from across the country, I have tabled a motion seeking the establishment of a cross-departmental and cross-agency task force to address emergency climate adaptation...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 85. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work that he is undertaking to support Ireland’s wool industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47187/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 98. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to facilitate farmers’ trading carbon credits; if he intends to establish a verifiable framework to record and manage net carbon sequestration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47186/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 580. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 550 of 27 September 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of the waiting times for those currently on the CAMHS waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52738/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 581. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently awaiting an assessment of need in counties Roscommon and Galway; the length of time that they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52739/22]