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Dáil
‹ An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Proceeds of Crime Bill

Summary

Brendan Howlin urged the Government to enact the Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill this week. The Taoiseach said he was well disposed to it and would ask Ministers how it could be accelerated.

I want to raise an issue of most urgency, that is, the need to enact this week in this House the Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020, which has been passed on Second Stage. It would expand our proceeds of crime legislation, which established the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, to capture the ill-gotten goods of oligarchs, officials and anybody else involved in human rights abuses. It is a signal that this House should give. I ask that the Taoiseach reflect on that and provide time so that all parties which supported the Bill on Second Stage could enact it this week.

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I indicated to the Deputy previously when he first introduced the Bill in the House that I was well disposed towards the legislation.

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This is the week for it.

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I have not been over the detail in respect of what is transpiring. Is the Bill in committee?

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I will revert to the Ministers to see how we can accelerate and progress it.

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