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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: No.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: What I take from the Minister's comments is that there is a lot of criticism of the 1989 Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act that it was effectively toothless. There may be a misunderstanding of how effective it was but it was certainly not as effective as it could have been. Am I to take it from the Minister's remarks that he does not want to replace that Act with a new Act which is...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, to delete lines 7 and 8.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 6, to delete lines 10 to 12.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 6, line 19, after “religion”, to insert “or belief”. This amendment seeks to include the word "belief" following "religion" and includes reference to philosophical convictions or belief, or their absence. The word "religion" is not strong enough. The word "belief" is stronger. It could be argued that a person who is an atheist...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is in a similar vein.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Would it be safer to include the phrase rather than leave it out?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: That is the Minister's belief.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: What if someone argued in court that a person's belief system is not a religion? In that case, it would not come under the Act.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: What if it is not religious but it is a belief?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: On the basis of the Minister’s comments, I will find some concrete examples. I will withdraw my amendment and resubmit it on Report Stage, if the Minister is open to that.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The same applies to amendment No. 14.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I refer to amendment No. 19 on sexual orientation. I know the Bill states that "sexual orientation" has the same meaning as it has in section 2(1) of the Equal Status Act 2000, but we want to add that "sexual orientation” refers to emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to others based on gender, and includes heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual and asexual orientation....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 13: In page 6, to delete line 26 and substitute the following: “(2) In subsection (1)— I withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is on the basis that it can be resubmitted.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 6, to delete lines 32 to 34 and substitute the following: “(c) the reference to “national or ethnic origin” includes reference to membership of the ethnic group within the Nation known as “Travellers”, and also known as “Mincéirí” or “Pavees”,”. This amendment introduces a...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 17: In page 7, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: “(d) “gender” means the gender of a person or the gender which a person expresses or with which the person identifies, and includes the male, female, transgender and non-binary genders,”. The issue is there is no express linkage with the Equal Status Act in this...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I would be more comforted if there was a reference within that section of the Equal Status Act.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Can the Minister do the work on that?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Okay because any reading of this national ethnic origin has Equal Status Act reference, sexual orientation has Equal Status Act reference, disability has Equal Status Act reference but gender does not. That might be something the Minister could reflect on and come back on. I can withdraw the amendment on that basis.