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No. 144 of 2021

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021

Public bill · Government · Presented

The proposed changes would tighten sex offender notification rules, cutting some reporting deadlines from 7 days to 3, and letting Gardaí take fingerprints, palm prints and photographs to confirm identity. It would also give Gardaí and partner agencies more tools to assess risk, share information in serious cases, monitor some offenders electronically, and ask the courts to ban certain offenders from working with children or vulnerable people.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Sex Offenders Act 2001 to provide for a change in the notification requirements imposed on persons who are subject to Part 2 of that Act, to provide a power for the Garda Síochána to take fingerprints, palm prints and photographs under that Act in certain circumstances, to make provision in relation to the assessment and management of the risk of harm posed by certain persons and in that regard to make provision for the disclosure and publication of information relating to such persons in certain circumstances, to provide for the electronic monitoring of certain persons under that Act, to provide for the variation of certain orders made under that Act and to make provision for the imposition of a prohibition on working with children and vulnerable persons on certain persons; to amend the Criminal Justice Act 1984 to allow for the retention, in certain circumstances, of fingerprints, palm prints and photographs taken under that Act of persons who are subject to Part 2 of the Sex Offenders Act 2001; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 11 September 2024

Sponsor
  • Minister for Justice Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Cream List
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad
    Dáil
  • Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
    Dáil
  • Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
    Select Committee on Justice
  • Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil
  • Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage
    Dáil

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