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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: Mr. Browder has his hand up. I will bring him in now to give us his views.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: I thank Mr. Browder. I have several questions. The point made by the representatives of the Department was that the revenue from a human rights abuse might be derived from what is called a profit-generating crime as opposed to human rights abuse. I would like to understand and flesh that out a little. If people were engaged in human trafficking and then using those trafficked people in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: I will broaden out the contributions and invite the other witnesses to comment. The difficulty, as it has been put to us, is that there may be assets within the jurisdiction generated by what are called existing crimes, shall we say, or more common or garden crimes, as opposed to human rights crimes. Assets in those cases are already subject to the laws of the State and to seizure by CAB...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: Let us take it back to first principles. Let us say a human rights abuser is resident in another jurisdiction - it can be anywhere - and that human rights abuser is well chronicled and well documented and we would say that the burden of proof is met for the purpose of this consideration and that we have evidence that would arise in a prosecution, and that abuser has assets within the State...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: How does that differ from sanctions that might be passed at EU level, for example, where certain individuals are no longer permitted to hold, trade in or dispose of assets within the State because they are considered to be persona non gratabecause of international events? How does it differ from that situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: That is helpful. I am going to wrap up the discussion shortly because we have other issues to discuss. To elucidate that further, and I hope I do not complicate it further, if there is an individual who has clean money and dirty money, the clean money is accumulated through a legitimate business interest and the dirty money is accumulated through criminal activity or certain activity in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: That is because CAB, under current powers or even under the Bill, could not move on clean money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: No, that would be against named individuals. I am talking about Ireland quaIreland acting against gross human rights abusers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: What does Mr. Bruen mean by the new regime?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: I will conclude our discussion on that matter but we have other matters before the committee today. I thank the witnesses, both those physically present and Mr. Browder online, for joining us and for their very helpful submissions. We have already waived scrutiny of this Bill but we felt it was useful to have an engagement on it to better understand it. It is with the Minister for the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: For the benefit of those joining us in this session, I wish to inform them that the committee already sat this afternoon and considered another Bill. We are now moving on to the next item. All of our guests are very welcome. I particularly welcome the sponsor of the Bill, Deputy Cian O'Callaghan, whom I will be inviting to make some opening remarks shortly. The purpose of this session of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. I commend him on introducing the Bill and getting it to this stage. We are certainly glad to be in a position to consider it as a committee with all the witnesses we have present. I will deal with the witnesses organisation by organisation. I will begin with Ms Counihan from Rape Crisis Network Ireland. She has three minutes in which to make her opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: I apologise for cutting Ms Counihan short. We have the benefit of a written copy of her submission. There is a great deal of detail in it, which is helpful. I can see the BL in Ms Counihan coming out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: The submission includes amendments, which might be helpful at later stages of the Bill's consideration. For the purposes of today, though, we will take the rest of the submission as read. We will move on to the next witness. I welcome Ms Murphy, who has done a great deal of work in this area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: I thank Ms Murphy. Next is Threshold, with Mr. Elliott reading its opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: I thank Mr. Elliott. Now we will hear from Ms Woods on behalf of the Department of Justice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: I thank Ms Woods. We now move to the committee members, having heard all the opening statements. Because we have a number of items on today's agenda, we will keep the slots relatively short.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: I thank Deputy Daly. We are a little behind time but I will allow Ms Woods to answer that question before moving to the next member.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: Does Threshold want to respond about the figures? We can go to the Department about the research being done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: Deputy Howlin has the next slot but first I want to bring a few other people in. Did Ms Murphy wish to comment? She has not had a chance to get in yet.