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Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: I will be very careful if I go to west Cork on my holidays. I thank the Deputy for the heads up.

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: It is okay, I will mind you.

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Gillian Toole: On a more serious note, I thank the Minister, his team and I presume The Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers for the sterling work on what I consider to be a future-proofing and highly considered safeguarding of the next generations of the country. I also express my gratitude to our juvenile liaison officers. I will name two of them in particular from County Meath, garda Barbara Kelly...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank all my colleagues for their contributions. It is also notable and unusual that everyone who spoke is very much in favour of the legislation, with full support across the House. I welcome that. It is also important that people who are involved in criminality and generating wealth from it, know that there is unanimity in this House in our opposition to them and in our desire to...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: I looked at the briefing paper. We agree, as I think most people here do, that we should reduce the timeframe from seven to two years for the disposal of assets identified as proceeds of crime. The Bill strengthens the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, giving it power to restrain and seize assets before the High Court. A process introduces new restraint orders to prevent transactions linked to...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome the Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill, which, as the Minister said, represents a major upgrade of existing legislation. I welcome the fact it will reduce from seven years to two the time between a judicial determination of an asset being the proceeds of crime and a final disposal order being available. I especially welcome the immediate and automatic appointment of a...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the Bill and commend the great work of the members of An Garda Síochána and those officers who work in the Criminal Assets Bureau. It is important that we tackle criminals at source. The best way to do this is by tackling the proceeds of crime. We welcome that the turnaround time will be reduced from seven years to two years. This is something for which we in...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: I welcome the Bill. We support it fully but intend to table some amendments on Committee Stage which we think will strengthen it. In my constituency, particularly in the north-inner city, and in a number of other constituencies in Ireland, there is a heartbreaking sight that many of us have grown accustomed to: young people, children, teenagers, kids on scramblers, kids hanging around...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: The issue of crime is something that is feared as much as anything else across many parts of rural Ireland in particular and in my constituency. We saw today that three people have pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the desperate attack on Tom Niland, an elderly man living alone in a rural area who was set upon, badly beaten and subsequently passed away. The fear that kind of situation...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: Before proceeding, I welcome the Norwegian ambassador, H.E. Mr. Aslak Brun, to the Distinguished Visitors Gallery.

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Barry Ward: I share the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach's sentiments and welcome the Norwegian ambassador. I welcome this legislation, which was brought to Cabinet by the then Minister, Deputy Helen McEntee, in January last year and has progressed since then. It is a very welcome development of the law in relation to the seizure of criminal assets. I will start by making a point on the drafting of the...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá muid sásta déileáil leis seo inniu. Without a doubt, we are all very happy to be dealing with this legislation. On some level, I agree with whoever said earlier that we need this to happen as quickly as possible. It should have happened earlier. We all know why the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up. We have all seen what it has done at State level and locally....

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach, the Ceann Comhairle's office, the ushers and all the staff here in the Oireachtas for their assistance to the Members over recent months and during this term. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025, which is vital legislation that strengthens our national ability to disrupt, dismantle and defeat...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: Before I call Deputy Quinlivan, I welcome our guests from Cavan. They are the guests of the Minister of State, Deputy Niamh Smyth.

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank CAB for the work it has done over the past number of years. I really want to talk about the community safety fund and how that can be enhanced. The aims of the Bill are positive aims that my party and I support. Any efforts that attempt to deny criminals their ill-gotten gains are welcome. The message must be delivered loud and clear that crime does not pay. We have to make...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: This is good legislation and the Minister should be commended for it.

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Deputy.

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: We will be supporting it 100%. I also compliment CAB, its officers and the people who work there. They do very sensitive and dangerous work and their anonymity is important going forward because these criminals and their organisations have long views. It is incredibly important that we protect the people who work for CAB. I want to acknowledge something that shows how politics works at...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Mark Ward: I join the Minister in commending the work of CAB over the years in seizing assets from organised crime gangs. I also join in his comments concerning An Garda Síochána taking drugs off our streets, which is very much needed. Sinn Féin supports the aims of this Bill, but as the Minister mentioned, there will be a Committee Stage and we may seek to table amendments to further...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)