Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 1, to delete lines 19 to 21 and substitute the following:

"the victim,

(c) any person who is, for the time being, responsible for the education, supervision or welfare of the victim;

(d) any person who is more than 60 months older than the victim;".

The effect of this amendment is to include a person who is more than five years older than the victim under the definition of a person in authority. This would, for example, cover uncles-in-law, godparents, adult family friends, etc., who did not actually have any responsibility for the child or who never acted in loco parentis. The amendment also reflects a recommendation in the Law Reform Commission's 1990 report on child sex abuse.