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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