Results 21-40 of 253 for blasphemy
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (4 Dec 2019)
Charles Flanagan: There is one Government Bill in my Department currently awaiting Committee Stage: the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Decisions on Supervision Measures) Bill. The Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019 completed Committee Stage on 4 December 2019.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2019)
Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Committee Stage
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Message to Dáil (4 Dec 2019)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Justice and Equality has completed its consideration of the Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019, and has made no amendments thereto. I again thank the Minister and his officials for attending the committee. I also thank the members of the...
- Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Referral to Select Committee (7 Nov 2019)
- Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019) See 5 other results from this debate
Pat Breen: ...that area. In response to the Deputy's comments, the Minister for Justice and Equality in presenting the Bill expressed the Government's abhorrence at the use of reference to the contribution of blasphemy as a criminal offence in Ireland to justify the prosecution of religious minorities in certain countries such as the case mentioned by him. I note his reference to the Preamble and...
- Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (5 Nov 2019) See 2 other results from this debate
James Lawless: I will be sharing time with colleagues. I commend the Minister's contribution. It was an interesting tour of jurisprudence on the issue of blasphemy, how it came into being, its position in Bunreacht na hÉireann and the small degree of case law which has prevailed on the article and, more recently, the offence in the past number of years. As the Minister outlined, very few cases ever...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2019)
Ivana Bacik: ...Doherty, and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, on improvements to processes. I seek that debate as a matter of urgency. Yesterday during our very stimulating debate on the Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill, Senator Ned O'Sullivan pointed out the need for legislation on hate crime. A number of us have been pressing for that for some time....
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 91, motion 7, regarding a vacancy in the membership of Seanad Éireann, to be taken without debate on the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 1, Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019 – Order for Second Stage and Second and Subsequent Stages, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to adjourn not later than 2 p.m., if not previously...
- Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Order for Second Stage (25 Sep 2019)
- Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (25 Sep 2019)
- Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)
- Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2019)
- Seanad: An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Scaoileadh ar Phósadh) 2016: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Dissolution of Marriage) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Apr 2019)
Ivana Bacik: ...and those campaigning for a Yes vote tend to be cautious about referendum proposals. Nonetheless, as I stated on Second Stage, we could be somewhat more radical at times. Certainly, on the blasphemy referendum in November last, we should have gone further and not only removed blasphemy from the Constitution but removed the other offences in the same article. It is unfortunate we did not...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)
David Norris: .... He interviewed a man about his life as a gay man in Egypt where homosexuality is not illegal. However, gay men who are consenting male adults in private are consistently nowadays arrested for blasphemy, immorality and debauchery. I would like to ask that this House requests the Leader to get the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to send a strong protest, on behalf of the House,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: ...before the people vote on the proposition in May, they will understand what they are being asked, just as they understood what they were being asked in the referendums on the eighth amendment and blasphemy.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Referendum Campaigns (29 Nov 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the referendums he is planning after the blasphemy referendum of 26 October 2018. [43912/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (27 Nov 2018)
Simon Coveney: ...Government as well as through the framework and mechanisms of the European Union and the United Nations. I am aware of the particular case of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani woman convicted in 2010 of blasphemy and sentenced to death. Following an appeal, the Supreme Court of Pakistan recently overturned her conviction. Since the Supreme Court decision, I have continued to follow developments in...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (21 Nov 2018)
Simon Coveney: .... Ireland has raised specific cases of persecution on religious grounds with the relevant authorities in India and Pakistan. For example, the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman whose conviction for blasphemy in Pakistan was recently overturned, has received much international attention in recent weeks. My Department has raised Ms Bibi’s case on a number of occasions both in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2018)
Rónán Mullen: .... It is now the weapon of choice for all kinds of populist proposals, or for providing cover or distraction from other controversies or Government failures. Apart from the recent abortion and blasphemy referendums, there is talk of the constitutional protection of women who choose to remain in the home being challenged by the Government in a referendum. I am sure the proposed referendum...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (20 Nov 2018)
Simon Coveney: ...within and alongside the EU and UN to address the persecution of religious minorities wherever it occurs. I am, of course, aware of the case of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani woman convicted in 2010 of Blasphemy and sentenced to death. Following an appeal, the Supreme Court of Pakistan recently overturned her conviction. Minister Flanagan raised concerns on the blasphemy laws with his...