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It is not agreed. It is shameful.

Votáil.

I thought that was Skellig Michael.

I also extend my sympathies to the Minister, Deputy Burke, on the passing of his dear mother. I ask that the Minister for Education comes to the House for a debate about the social, personal and health education, SPHE, syllabus and how it interacts with schools' child protection obligations and our obligations under the law. We did some child protection very well in this country about a decade ago. Thankfully, we have very robust child protection procedures in schools dating from 2017. These mandatory school proced…

Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I welcome this reforming legislation but I am reminded, as I have so often been, of a story. There are different versions of it but it is about the old man in Connemara. Some tourists stop the car and ask for directions to Dublin. After scratching his head, he says: "To be honest with you, I would not start from here at all." Frankly, when I look at this legislation, if it is to be called reforming legislation, a Bill that simply extends the franchise for university graduates to elect S…

We could have the human dignity alliance, we could have Aontú, there are lots of good people and good parties around. Having said that, the university constituencies provide the ground that is there to be hurled and I am very happy to have been enabled by the voters four times now, and I hope there will be a fifth, to hurl that ground, for all the flaws in the system. I would ask the Minister to clarify a couple of things. Maybe they were already clarified in his speech; I am sorry I was delayed on the way over. Is…

How altruistic of me.

I second everything Senator Conway has just said. When the presidents of our universities speak out, we should listen. They are people who are not prone to negative hyperbole. In fact, they have the important task of putting the best foot forward when marketing their universities and colleges nationally and internationally. When the president of UCD warns the sector is at risk, the provost of Trinity College warns of a quiet and gradual decline and the chair of the governing authority of UCC says the viability of I…

I will regretfully disagree with my friend and colleague, Senator Flynn, on her reaction to the Government's announcement that it is pulling in its horns, so to speak, on the hate speech dimension of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill. It needs to be understood that every reasonable person in our society is against hateful communications. The issue and the problem that always was there in the legislation is that it was using criminal law, the extreme end of social sanctio…

Those people who do must be thick, thick, thick.

I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Gabhaim buíochas léi as ucht teacht anseo don díospóireacht. We are all aware of the increase in sexual crime, including sexual violence, in our society. Some, but only some, of the increase is due to a greater readiness to report such crime. Due to high-profile cases, there is heightened awareness that we need to do something, yet people are afraid. Women are afraid. There is the international dimension to this, of course. The traffick…

I thank the Acting Chair. Again, I thank the Minister for taking this debate and for her encouraging words and challenging words in respect of the contents of the Bill. I also thank all of my friends and colleagues for their contributions. I learned something from each and every contribution. I would see myself very much as a free speech advocate. I am very concerned, as people in the House will know, about the implications of the so-called hate speech legislation, its implications for our democratic engagement wit…

Next Monday.

Hear, hear.

I agree with Senator Burke's intervention. It would be nice to get a hot roll on the rolling stock, I often think. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that item No. 7 be taken before No. 1. This is to enable the introduction of the protection of children (online verification) Bill. The Bill is in the interests of child protection and would require access to pornographic material on the Internet to be subject to age verification and provide for related matters. I spoke on this last week and hope to get …

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act, in the interest of child protection, to require that access to pornographic material on the internet be subject to an age-verification requirement and to provide for related matters.

Next Thursday.

I want to second what my friend and colleague Senator Malcolm Byrne said. I extend my sympathies to the family involved and, indeed, to the Canadian people. It is a scandal that this happened on our premier street. With the 250th anniversary of Daniel O'Connell's birth coming up next year, unless something is done, the best way we could honour him as things stand would be by taking his name off that street. This is an appalling state of affairs. We need a debate about the state of our country and what is going on w…

I thank the Cathaoirleach. This is my final sentence. When it comes to public service broadcasting, responsibility is not just about the way you use money; it is about the way you deal with matters and about whether the public can trust you to offer impartial and unflinching scrutiny, regardless of whether it is comfortable or not for people to hear.