Results 26,781-26,800 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I do not know because, again, we are dependent on the Minister. I presume that is the intention of the section.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: We had prepared an amendment, the wording of which was much simpler than the section as it stands.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Is the Minister tabling these changes as amendments?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following subsection: "(3) The Schedule to the Act of 2006 is amended, in the row relating to the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993, in the third column of that row, by the deletion of "Sections 3 and 4" and the substitution therefor of "Section 3".". This is an important amendment and the Minister referred to...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Was the offence deliberately abolished last year?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: That is fine.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Minister's frank explanation, which is a significant advance on last year. We are trying to grapple with difficult issues and nobody is gainsaying that. The Minister is correct that we are making law that has general application. However, I did not have the case of an 18 year old gay man who has a 16 year old boyfriend in mind. I have in mind a 16 year old boy being...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: It should not be encouraged either. Should it?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Should it be a crime for the 36 year old?
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: I may oversimplify the matter but we need to get it clear before Committee Stage because we are expected to draft amendments to the Bill. I am advised that defences are put into Acts which create offences not just because they are required by the Constitution but so that we in this House, the elected Members of the Oireachtas, can define the substance of those defences, instead of leaving...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: That is true.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: The offence we are seeking to re-enact this evening has had a curious legislative history that I had the opportunity to re-examine today. It seems, when one reads over the enactments, to have been characterised by some fundamental errors as to its purpose. It is, however, a serious offence â the offence of soliciting or importuning a child for sex. It is an offence which I do not believe...
- Written Answers — Budgeting Advice Services: Budgeting Advice Services (1 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made in regard to his consideration of the research commissioned by the Financial Regulator and the Combat Poverty Agency on the nature and extent of debt incurred by low income families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7903/07]
- Written Answers — Budgeting Advice Services: Budgeting Advice Services (1 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the latest position with regard to his discussions with representatives of the credit union movement with a possible view to providing additional credit options for low income families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7904/07]
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (1 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if in relation to charges levied on people in receipt of in-patient services on premises where nursing care is provided on a 24 hour basis on those premises, the charges will be varied to take account of regular weekends and holidays spent by the patient in the family home or if the full charge of â¬120 is to be levied irrespective...
- Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Never.
- Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: We have not heard the question.
- Order of Business (1 Mar 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Secondary legislation is quite in order.
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (28 Feb 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the results of a recent survey carried out by researchers from the DCU's National Centre for Sensor Research which found that 100% of Irish banknotes examined showed traces of cocaine; his views on the widespread use of cocaine reflected in the survey's results; the steps he is...
- Written Answers — Drug Seizures: Drug Seizures (28 Feb 2007)
Brendan Howlin: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the value of major drugs finds in the State in 2006 came to over â¬40 million, with a record â¬25.6 million worth of heroin discovered; his views on whether this is a major increase on the figure for 2005, and demonstrates in stark detail the scale and amount of...