Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion
Mr. Michael Gubbins:
No. One of the questions concerned cyberstalking. Section 4A of the UK's Protection from Harassment Act 1997 concerns "Stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress". That might address some of the Deputy's questions in that regard. Here, most of the criminal offences around harassment are covered by the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997, while in the UK stalking would seem to be encompassed under 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
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