Results 161-180 of 251 for blasphemy
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Referendum Campaigns (15 Feb 2022)
Michael McGrath: ...President €14.8m May 2018 Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018 (Repeal of the 8th Amendment) €16.8m Oct-18 Thirty-Seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018 (Blasphemy) * May-19 Divorce (38 Amendment) *
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
David Norris: ..., to take on the disadvantaged in a manner which, sadly, can only further alienate young people from the church. To make a totem of marriage in the way that it has been done is nothing other than blasphemy. I refer to the gospels of Jesus Christ when he was reprimanded by the pharisees for breaking the Sabbath. He made the point that this was an institution made for man, not man for the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014) See 1 other result from this debate
Tommy Broughan: ...including the possibility of reducing the presidential term to five years, and has reviewed the electoral system for the Dáil and constitutional provisions such as those relating to the offence of blasphemy. Is it the Taoiseach's intention that the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention will be dealt with not later than 2015? The Taoiseach will recall the ill-fated...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (15 Dec 2020)
Colm Brophy: ...raised by the Deputy. The person whose details are supplied is a child who was sentenced to ten years in prison by a Sharia Court in the State of Kano, northern Nigeria, following a conviction for blasphemy handed down on 10 August. Following the sentencing, on 16 September UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, called on the Nigerian Government and the Kano State...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (18 Apr 2023)
Micheál Martin: ...2023. We recommended that Pakistan establish an independent inquiry into all suspected cases of enforced disappearance, and hold alleged perpetrators to account. We also recommended that Pakistan amend blasphemy legislation to avoid unjustly targeting or discriminating against religious minorities. Ireland will continue to support Pakistan’s efforts to advance human rights through...
- Constitutional Convention (3 May 2011)
Enda Kenny: ...years to five; provision for same sex marriage; broadening the reference in the Constitution to the role of women in the home to one which recognises the role of the parent in the home; removing blasphemy from the Constitution; the possible reduction of the voting age; and other relevant constitutional amendments that may be recommended by the convention. The convention will be expected to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (5 Jul 2016) See 1 other result from this debate
Enda Kenny: ...will be considered by Government in due course. I have asked the Minister of State with responsibility for the diaspora to make this a real priority. As regards the sixth report on the offence of blasphemy, the programme for a partnership Government says that a referendum will be held on removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution. The seventh report made...
- Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Tom Arnold (16 Jan 2014) See 5 other results from this debate
David Norris: An example is the blasphemy business, which was complete nonsense. I remember saying, when the Bill on blasphemy was debated in the House, that within a matter of weeks some of the Muslim countries would point to Ireland as an example. Within a month Pakistan did so, but both Houses pushed the legislation through on the instruction of the Government. That is another example of why we...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)
Mary Lou McDonald: ...is not going away. We need a huge change of direction and policy that delivers secure, affordable housing for all our citizens. In the coming weeks, we will have a referendum on the issue of blasphemy. I am sure it is a very worthy issue but it is not the most pressing one we face. A more productive course of action would be to hold a referendum on the right to housing. That would...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention (27 Nov 2012)
Enda Kenny: ...marriage; amending the clause on the role of women in the home and encouraging greater participation of women in public life; increasing the participation of women in politics; removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution; and such other relevant constitutional amendments that may be recommended by the Convention. The Government has formally committed to giving a public...
- Programmes for Government (22 Mar 2011)
Enda Kenny: ...; provision for same-sex marriage; broadening the reference in the Constitution to the role of women in the home to one which recognises the role of the parent in the home; removing reference to blasphemy from the Constitution; the possible reduction of the voting age; and other relevant constitutional amendments that may be recommended by the constitutional convention. Work has commenced...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Overseas Visits (9 Jun 2015) See 1 other result from this debate
Enda Kenny: ...Ireland might put forward for consideration. When I met with representatives of the Islamic community here last week, they raised the question of the recommendation of the Constitutional Convention on blasphemy. I indicated to the community that the Government accepted the recommendation of the Constitutional Convention that there should be a referendum on the blasphemy question but that...
- Seanad: Middle East: Statements (18 Feb 2009)
David Norris: ...the state of Israel which gives preferential treatment to the export of their goods. Human rights protocols are attached to that which are not even monitored. What is the point of them? It is a blasphemy against the concept of human rights to have them there on paper while at the beginning of his speech the Minister of State makes clear that he believes there is a prima facie case that...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (24 Jun 2014)
Enda Kenny: ...elections for citizens living outside the State and is being considered by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, while the sixth report, on removal of the mention of blasphemy in the Constitution, is being considered by the Department of Justice and Equality. The seventh, eighth and ninth reports respectively contain recommendations concerning Dáil...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (7 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: ...the age of candidacy for Presidential elections to 21. In addition, the Government has announced it will bring forward proposals for a referendum on removal from the Constitution of the offence of blasphemy but no date has been decided as yet. In addition, the Government decided to refer to the relevant Oireachtas Committee the question of a constitutional amendment to give citizens a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with Representatives of Church in Chains (4 Jul 2023)
...who have suffered, whether that be an individual pastor in China who has been put in prison because of their faith, an individual Christian in Pakistan who is under sentence of death under the blasphemy law, individual Christians in India whose homes or church buildings have been burnt down or the many individuals in Nigeria who have had to flee their homes. We would be open and happy to...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (10 May 2005)
Dermot Ahern: ...was led by the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Brian Cowen. On that occasion, the EU side expressed continued EU concern on human rights issues, such as treatment by police forces, blasphemy law, and the situation of women.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (17 Jan 2024)
Micheál Martin: ...in detail. In January 2023, Ireland made an intervention during Pakistan’s Universal Periodic Review at the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council. We recommended that Pakistan amend blasphemy legislation to avoid unjustly targeting or discriminating against any religious minority. We also recommended that Pakistan establish an independent inquiry into all suspected cases...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2009)
Eugene Regan: ...Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, which dealt with firearms, the European arrest warrant and the Schengen information system. Another was the Defamation Act, containing the infamous blasphemy provisions. As Bills these were rushed through, particularly the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, on the basis that they were needed as a matter of urgency. These and...
- Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...persons who have been adversely affected by the floods? As regards the Constitutional Convention's outstanding reports, the Government has accepted recommendations on the holding of referenda on blasphemy, reducing the voting age and the setting up of an electoral commission. For several months many Members have been raising these issues and we were given firm assurances that we would...