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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy O'Brien should come in at the appropriate time. With no other members showing, amendment No. 11 cannot proceed and is not moved. The members tabling are not present.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendment No. 13 in the name of Deputy Coppinger. There is absolute certainty that Deputy Coppinger is in a position to table again for Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendments Nos. 14 to 17, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Those who tabled amendment No. 14 are not present. Amendment No. 15 is in the names of Deputies Jonathan O'Brien, Clare Daly, Wallace and Catherine Martin. For the purposes of clarification, Deputy Catherine Martin was specific regarding those amendments from which she wished to have her name removed and this...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not everybody is listening to the Chair's appeal.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is appropriate that it was an own goal.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are discussing amendments Nos. 14 to 17, inclusive, together.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No. For clarification, Deputy Farrell was on it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Not at all.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have given substantial time to this group of amendments and they have been very well addressed. I hope that, on conclusion of the Tánaiste's response, we will be able to proceed to make decisions on each of the four amendments.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Unless there is something new for consideration, I propose to proceed to address the amendments in this grouping, of which there are four. Amendment No. 14 has not been moved and has fallen. Is amendment No. 15, in the names of Deputies O'Brien, Daly, Wallace and Martin, being pressed?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is a new situation presenting and the Deputy must excuse the fact that the Chair has not gone through this before. Unfortunately, Deputy Coppinger is not in a position to actually call a vote. It is one of the rules of the committee system, and not of this Chair, which I wish to emphasise to her. In the absence of a nominated member or one presenting to move Deputy Coppinger's...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The clarification is that I will not able to then put it to a division.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: None of the proponents of amendment No. 17 is present.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Go raibh maith agat. My reading of the situation is that there is unanimity about the deletion of this section with the acceptance of the Minister.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendments Nos. 18 and 21 are being taken together. As the Deputies proposing those amendments are not present, however, they cannot be moved.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Amendment No. 19 is in the names of Deputies Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy, who are not here to move it. The amendment requires the Minister to "commission an independent review of this Part 4", which relates to the purchase of sexual services and to "make a report" to the House on its effectiveness under various headings. As the commissioning of an independent review would...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Maybe the Minister will take on board the wishes of Deputies.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before I bring in Deputies O'Callaghan and Coppinger, I remind the committee that amendment No. 19 is not validly before us. We need to move on to amendment No. 20, which is eligible to be considered by the committee. Therefore, I ask Deputies to keep their contributions crisp.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I went through these procedures yesterday in preparation for today's meeting. If the Deputy seeks to move the amendment, it will be ruled out of order because she is not a member of the AAA-PBP group.