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  • Labour leader Pat RabbitteLabour seeks review of sex offences

    17:10 There is currently no offence under Irish law for soliciting a child for sex, Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte claimed in the Dáil today. As a Garda investigation into an alleged Dublin paedophile ring continues, Mr Rabbitte said that emergency legislation passed through the Oireachtas last summer omitted an offence of soliciting or importuning a child for sexual purposes.
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