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Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 18:In page 20, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “27. The Minister shall commission a report on the impact of Part 4 within two years of the passing of this Act to ascertain if this Act has seen a reduction in human trafficking and to see its impact on the human rights, safety and well being of sex workers.”.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: Yes.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: But you asked Deputy Daly whether she was moving her amendment.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: You did not ask me that.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: I have not.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: I seek clarification, not just for this, but for the future, that if a Deputy is asked whether he or she is moving an amendment the Deputy can speak again. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle did not ask me or Deputy Daly that. He asked Deputy Connolly.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: From everything I have heard from the Minister I do not doubt her sincerity, but I am a complete opponent of a system that exploits all workers. Since I joined the Dáil I have been on my feet, along with other Deputies, defending workers' rights, from Luas drivers to teachers to nurses to Tesco workers to Dunnes Stores workers. There is a system of exploitation of workers that is at...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: I did not get two minutes.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Jonathan O'Brien made a very good point and it is the one I wish to emphasise most, although there are a number of other issues of which we need to be very cognisant when dealing with the question of having a full report on the implementation of the law that will be enacted. He referred to human trafficking. The justification for the campaign on the criminalisation of the purchase of...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 16:In page 20, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“Amendment of Act of 1993 26. Section 11 of the Act of 1993 is amended--(a) by designating the existing section as subsection (1), and (b) by inserting the following subsection--“(2) No person shall be prosecuted for an offence under this section where the brothel is used by that person to...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 10:In page 19, to delete lines 3 to 38, and in page 20, to delete lines 1 and 2. It is unfortunate that a number of complex issues are conflated in this Bill. By this I mean that there is a conflation in the construct of the Bill in the context of the issues of trafficking, coercion, sex work and, to a degree, pornography. However, they are all very different issues....

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: I will call the Taoiseach Tánaiste because he calls me Deputy Collins all the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am just trying to be a smart aleck. I will stay on the same theme as my colleague and comrade, Deputy Boyd Barrett, that is, inequality, which was one of the main themes at Davos. Shocking economic reports published in the past year or so indicate that inequality in this country is growing and will probably reach United States levels if we do not do something to address them. In fact,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: It may be a great place to do business and not pay one's taxes but it also has a major down-side for its population. Did the Taoiseach explain that to the attendees at Davos?

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is not my opinion. Economic studies show that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: They were given a rise of 10 cent.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: Business in equality.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: It is just more of the same.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: That does not stop them paying their taxes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos. [2796/17]