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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: 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 want to come back on amendment No. 20. The Minister said it is important that the information is shared. I acknowledge the Bill provides a legal mechanism for the Garda to share information for the first time, something which was not available up to now, and expose members of the force that provided very relevant and valid information. My problem is that the Minister believes it is...

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: Will the Minister clarify that she is satisfied the other provisions already in legislation will ensure that reciprocal arrangement will be in place within the common travel area and outside that more generally? I welcome the provision in amendment No. 14 to allow a photograph of a convicted sex offender to be provided to a third party where it is necessary to identify that offender to...

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

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, lines 16 and 17, to delete "any Garda Síochána station which is a divisional headquarters" and substitute "the nearest public office of the Garda Síochána to where they reside".

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

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, lines 26 and 27, to delete "any Garda Síochána station which is a divisional headquarters" and substitute "the nearest public office of the Garda Síochána to where they reside".

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

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, line 32, to delete "to" and substitute "and in the presence of".

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

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for taking on board amendment No. 7. This is very welcome legislation. It will ensure for the first time ever we will have an effective sex offenders register in this country. To have an effective sex offenders register, the member of the force who will be monitoring a sex offender needs to be able to make contact with and interview him or her, take his or her...

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

Denis Naughten: I am disappointed with the Minister's response regarding an issue which I believe is fundamental to this Bill. The Minister is looking at this issue from a particular perspective, but if we turn it on its head and look at it from the opposite perspective, rather than looking at this provision and how it facilitates sex offenders, it will be seen it is not limiting them to the local Garda...

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

Denis Naughten: The Minister's Department highlighted problems with this legislation 13 years ago. It has taken us this long to get this far. Is the Minister honestly telling me we are going to see amending legislation when there is a problem with what we are enacting now? We will not. The Minister is telling us the Garda is saying it is happy with what is in this Bill. I have been at this for 13 years...

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

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, lines 4 to 6, to delete all words from and including “any” in line 4 down to and including “section” in line 6 and substitute “the nearest public office of the Garda Síochána to where they reside”. Before the clock starts, I wish to recognise retired Garda Sergeant John Hynes and his wife, Catherine,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 9 September 2022, if he has received the final report of the independent analysis of the warmth and wellbeing scheme carried out by the London School of Tropical Medicine; if he will publish the report in advance of World COPD day on 16 November 2022 in light of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 492. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in view of the recognition of long Covid as an occupational disease for healthcare workers by the EU Commission, and the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work, if she will confirm her intention to include it as a prescribed disease or illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51102/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 674. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recognition of long Covid by the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work as an occupational disease for healthcare workers, if he will justify the reason he has set a date of 84 days prior to 7 February 2022 as the threshold of special leave with pay for those with long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51103/22]