Mr. Justice John Quirke:

Other people have asked us to consider the question of incitement of the kind spoken about by the Deputy relating to people in housing estates and inciting hatred against one particular group or family. We thought that would require a separate project if we were to do it because the question of incitement is very difficult. We thought the only way we could handle it would be by restricting it to doing so through the use of technology. If, in the circumstances described by the Deputy, other persons were contacted by means of technology and asked to turn up at the Deputy's house, perhaps they might be subject to a law of that kind.

There is no doubt that it may be necessary for us or someone else to address the question of people inciting others to intimidate other citizens, but we do not think we can do both in the same project. We have considered it very carefully. We tried to do it that way and at one point considered it to be a project that should encompass both. However, we came to the conclusion after much discussion that we could not do both. We had to do them separately.