Independent TD Maureen O’Sullivan has proposed legislation to restrict sex offenders from travelling abroad.
Launching the Sex Offender’s Amendment Bill during Private Member’s time in the Dáil, she said the aim was to protect children who are easy prey in countries where the authorities cannot or will not protect them.
Conservative estimates put the number of children trafficked at four and a half million, she told the Dáil this evening.
She also said the increase in global travel had created more opportunities for abuse.
Deputy O’Sullivan also raised a warning from Philippines based priest Fr Shay Cullen that abuse of four and five year olds was being ‘done to order’ by abusers.
She said Australia had recently acted to give the authorities there the power to refuse a passport to sex offenders or order the return of a passport.
She said she knew this was a ‘tricky one’ because of the right to travel in the Constitution, but she said this should not be a right to travel to abuse children when you have abused children in your own country.
He went to school overseas and already we cannot travel to Ire nor the rest of Brit.
Now, they wanna punish their own and banish just like our U.S. Constitution states alike Ire’s for freedom to Travel. I’m sure it will pass. And not time to allow, the Bill or motion there that is. Another continual punishment for all RC’s Worldwode to follow besides The IML.