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THE DÁIL WILL this morning debate a law that would allow parents, community groups and schools to check information about sex offenders who may come into contact with their children or vulnerable adults.
The Child Sex Offenders Information and Monitoring Bill is being introduced by the Reform Alliance TD Denis Naughten as a private members’ bill in the Dáil this morning with the government saying this week it will not oppose the bill at second stage.
Speaking earlier this week, Justice Minister Alan Shatter said that the bill’s introduction “affords a valuable opportunity to discuss in the Dáil risks posed to children by paedophiles”.
Naughten’s bill proposes to establish the Information on Child Sex Offenders Scheme which would enable parents or guardians to find out whether a person coming into contact with their child or vulnerable adult has been convicted of a sexual offence or poses a danger to them.
ISCO is modelled on Sarah’s Law in the UK which was introduced in the aftermath of the abduction and murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne in the UK by a sex offender in 2000.
Shatter said that the bill as currently constituted presents a umber of practical difficulties.
However it’s likely that Naughten’s bill will be incorporated into the government’s own legislation on sex offenders which will be published in the coming weeks.
The bill will be debated from 10.30am today before the Dáil adjourns for the week at 1.30pm. You can watch proceedings here.
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A nightmare for the crew and their families.
Lets hope they can be found before tomorrow.
@NotMyIreland: All fingers crossed for them. It’s still possible that they’re on some ridge & can be reached in time.
are you telling me in this day and age that there’s no way of tracking or locating a bloody huge submarine???
@John Arsey: obviously that must be the case. It’s not large compared to the scale of the sea !
@John Arsey: the whole point of having a submarine is that they are as stealthy as possible
@Claudio Cavaliere: so there’s no protocol to deal with an Emergency on a submarine then?
@John Arsey: it’s a pretty massive sea
@John Arsey: Don’t forget MH370, we thought when that went missing we said the exact same thing.
Awful way to go
Modern submarines are extremely difficult to locate https://theconversation.com/submarines-are-designed-to-hide-so-what-happens-when-one-goes-missing-159634
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