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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 2 of Act of 2010 2. The Act of 2010 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 2: “Interpretation 2.(1) In this Act— ‘Data Protection Regulation’ means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I welcome what the Minister of State said and I am delighted to hear that the Department of Justice is liaising with the Law Reform Commission. The commission does tremendous work and is often under-recognised. It has a small team and I marvel at the amount of work it gets through. The suggestion the Minister of State made regarding an official version of the principal Act with changes...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 3 of Act of 2010 3. The Act of 2010 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 3: “Regulations 3. (1) The Minister may, after consulting with the Minister for Finance, by regulations provide for any matter referred to in this Act (other than section...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: On Second Stage, I raised an issue regarding the proposed amendments to section 25 of the Act of 2010. The figure of €10,000 is mentioned in section 5. Certain obligations are to be placed on art dealers and letting agents involved in transactions that amount to more than that figure over the course of a year. I have not put an amendment down but I suggested that we look at...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 36A of Act of 2010 9. The Act of 2010 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 36A: “Examination of background and purpose of certain transactions 36A. (1) A designated person shall, as far as possible, in accordance with policies and...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, after line 42, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 37 of Act of 2010 10. The Act of 2010 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 37: “Enhanced customer due diligence — politically exposed persons 37. (1) A designated person shall take steps to determine whether or not— (a) a...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 38 of Act of 2010 11. The Act of 2010 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 38: “Enhanced customer due diligence – correspondent banking relationships 38. (1) A credit institution or financial institution (‘the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I agree with what other speakers have said about this amendment. I raised this on Second Stage. This is a very reasoned approach to solving this problem. I recognise the difficulty with enshrining into primary legislation aspects that are not necessary to transpose the directive and update the law in this area. However, I also acknowledge and agree exactly with what Senators McDowell and...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 8: In page 11, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 38A of Act of 2010 12.The Act of 2010 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 38A: “Enhanced customer due diligence – high risk third countries 38A.(1) Subject to subsection (2), a designated person shall apply the following...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 9: In page 12, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 40 of Act of 2010 3. The Act of 2010 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 40: “Reliance on other persons to carry out customer due diligence 40. (1) In this section, ‘relevant third party’ means— (a) a person, carrying on...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, lines 10 and 11, to delete “including any information from relevant trust services as set out in the Electronic Identification Regulation” and substitute the following: “, including any information from relevant trust services as set out in the Electronic Identification Regulation,”. I am unsure if the Minister of State is...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: Tarraingím siar an leasú sin, I withdraw that amendment.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (1 Feb 2021)

Barry Ward: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach agus cuirim fáilte ar ais roimh an Aire Stáit. In the first instance I want to welcome this legislation. As the Minister of State pointed out at the outset of the debate, this furthers and refines the measures at European level to ensure that the State can tackle money laundering, deal with issues surrounding money...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2021)

Barry Ward: I want to raise an issue that is sometimes easy to forget in circumstances where we have so many problems to deal with in this country, particularly with Covid. I refer to the aftermath of the fraudulent presidential election that took place in Belarus last August and the violence and protests that took place after it. Perhaps it is easy for us to move on in this country and forget that...

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Second Stage (18 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: I propose to share time with Senator Seery Kearney.

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Second Stage (18 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: I welcome the Bill. We recently had statements on exactly this issue and the Bill was discussed extensively on that occasion as well. This is very important legislation and I will not repeat what other speakers have said about its import. Suffice it to say that most people find it astonishing that this kind of activity is not already against the law. We are behind the curve on the...

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: I have great sympathy with the proposal Senator Ruane has put forward. I know she has recognised that there is a certain reality to the proposal being put but the definition of these offences is a very difficult issue to grapple with and is technical, and the notion that one has to cover every eventuality is very difficult because one has to imagine offences that have not even been committed...

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: Section 2 is a relatively measured section, but I still think there are issues in terms of the manner in which it was drafted. I raise the same issues that I did in respect of the definition section, that there may be scope, in particular in subsection 2(a), for example, to overly broadly create an offence.Subsection (2) states: For the purposes of subsection (1), [which deals with the...

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: I speak on amendment No. 11, which proposes to substitute a new paragraph (b) in subsection (1). I like this amendment and I think it sets up exactly the type of test a court should conduct. The amendment would see the section essentially stating that, subject to subsection (2), a person is guilty of an offence where he or she has been responsible for the distribution or publication of an...

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: I endorse what Senator Seery Kearney said. I was speaking to a female colleague in the Dáil, who has two relatively young female staff in her office. She indicated to me that it is a routine matter that they receive fairly offensive and profane images by email in her office every day. One of the points she was making was exactly what Senator Seery Kearney said, that in a strange way,...