Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2025-11-05
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Eileen Flynn (IND), Administrative Panel

Today we are considering the main change in this important legislation. The Government supported our Bill on Committee Stage in June and we would love to have its support today to change the term "child pornography" and call it what it is, child sexual abuse by materials. In 2022, the then Minister, Deputy McEntee, said it might not be possible to have this Bill. I thank Corey O'Hara, Jessica Bray, and Colm Gannon in Australia for all their hard work on this legislation. From a conversation I had yesterday with the Minister, Deputy Jim O'Callaghan, I am aware he has taken our legislation and made it his own. I thank him for that. Today is a win for our office and also for that of the Minister for justice. It is important I say that because, for a member of the Traveller community who cares about children's rights and calling something what it is, the amendment is like correcting a typographical error, if you will. It changes the term "child pornography" to call it what it is "child sexual abuse material".

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Sitting date: 2025-11-05