Results 161-180 of 5,046 for speaker:Paschal Mooney
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I will be brief in the context of the Government's proposals. I am at a loss to understand why this is happening. I appreciate the Minister of State has outlined that this is standard across various pieces of legislation. However, I refer to what has been happening with our nearest neighbour, the UK, with some very high profile cases relating to child pornography and operation yew tree....
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I know that in practice it is being left to the Judiciary to decide if it will be a fine or imprisonment, but as far as I am aware the amendment is changing the original sanction which was a mandatory jail term, unless the Minister of State can tell me otherwise. To delete "to the imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years" and substitute "to a fine or imprisonment for a term not...
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: No, he was not.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I bow to the greater expertise of Senator Bacik on legal matters. A little like Senator Norris, I am a simple human being.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: If one views the section in its entirety, it is not about individual crimes, that is, one individual exploiting a child, but about group paedophilia. It is about obtaining, providing, etc., a child for the purpose of sexual exploitation in which money changes hands. The section refers to obtaining a child for himself, herself or another person and provides for a sentence "on conviction on...
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: No. I want clarification.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I am sorry but because of Senator Norris's contribution I do not know what the Minister of State said about the fines and imprisonment in terms of the core of the argument we made on the section. Can the Minister of State repeat what he said?
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: We are on the section.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: No, the Senator will not be brief. She does not know what brief means.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by my colleague, Senator Daly. I was somewhat surprised that there has not been any comment so far on the publication of a 400-page report on changing policing in Ireland. The media have highlighted aspects of this report. One of the most respected security journalists, Jim Cusack, has referred to it as "the latest and possibly most...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I thank the Leader.
- Seanad: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Amendment No. 2 in the name of Senator Cullinane and others has been ruled out of order because it involves a potential charge on the Exchequer.
- Seanad: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister of State, but my understanding is, and please correct me if I am wrong, that she is speaking to an amendment that is out of order when, in fact, the contribution was on the section.
- Seanad: Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I thank the Minister of State for her understanding.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Amendments Nos. 235 to 238, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I am sorry. I was just trying to advise Senators of the change in time which the Senator herself mentioned. She is addressing the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Amendment No. 239 is in the name of Senator Norris.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: The Senator may raise it in the debate on the section.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I thank Senator van Turnhout for her help. Does the Minister of State wish to respond or to defer?
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Paschal Mooney: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?