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Written Answers — Constitutional Amendments: Constitutional Amendments (7 May 2009): Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 and 90 together. The Government has no immediate proposals for the holding of a referendum on blasphemy. The 1961 Defamation Act provides that a person can be both fined and imprisoned for a maximum of seven years for the crime of blasphemous libel. The Government is moving to reform that Act - for example by removing the possibility of imprisonment while...
Written Answers — Constitutional Amendments: Constitutional Amendments (7 May 2009): Deirdre Clune: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on a constitutional referendum to amend Article 40.6.1 of the Constitution to remove the reference to blasphemy in that provision of the Constitution; the effect such a change or the lack of such a change would have on the constitutional protection of freedom of speech; and if he will make a statement on the...

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