Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Maria Joyce:
Yes. The hate crime legislation is hopelessly inadequate. The Traveller women in Killarney took a very good case against a social media platform but it was thrown out by the judge who did not make the nicest comments himself. Social media needs to be encompassed by all those processes, including the legal and incitement to hatred processes. Otherwise, things will not change.
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