Results 26,681-26,700 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Where does it say that?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I refer to the definition of sexual exploitation.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The Bill states that "inviting, inducing or coercing the child to participate in or observe any activity of a sexual or indecent nature" will constitute sexual exploitation.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: To detain somebody to observe any activity of a sexual nature will constitute sexual exploitation.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: A blue movie.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Is it not possible that the person who detains a child, or brings a child into a room, could be a child himself or herself?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: It could happen.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I know. I am just teasing it out. Could the activity of a sexual nature involve two young people snogging?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Is it not an activity of a sexual nature?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The reference to detention is separate.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I am trying to tease out whether these provisions would apply if one was not allowed to leave one's house, and then one's boyfriend, who is more than two years older, arrives. I am thinking on my feet. This provision is a very broad stroke. I expect the Minister to say that prosecutions would never be brought in such circumstances. That is the only safeguard in this regard. We should be...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister is offloading the responsibility for it.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I am mindful of the fact that Deputies are hanging around and obviously want to exercise themselves before they leave. I tabled these amendments to tease out certain aspects of this Bill.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: At every step of the way, we have unveiled the complexity of the legislation in this area and the absolute requirement for care in that regard. Anybody who reads the transcript of this debate will be less secure in their belief that the House has legislated well for these matters. I genuinely believe we will have to return to this issue at an early date. I am not looking forward to the...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: There should at least be a steer from the Government of its belief before people are asked to vote.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I agree there is not.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: That is true.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Before other Deputies speak on the general point, I wish to finalise my comments on amendment No. 5. I am conscious we have only 15 minutes remaining. I wish to be clear about amendment No. 5 but I will not be putting it to a vote. Section 6 creates a new subsection 2(a) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998. It is a new offence. The key point of the new offence is visible in...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: It could be two children, an 18-year old arranging to meet a 16-year old, for the purpose of snogging.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: It is the fact. The Minister did not accept my proposition last year but he was wrong.