Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed)

Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

We are very actively working through the proposal to lean into existing legislation on harassment. As we say, it has been strengthened with the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill in the expansion of harassment and stalking. The matter of relay and how the existing law relates generally to a particular individual repeatedly harassing a particular individual and how people seeking to circumvent the intentions of the law might get around it is something we will bring back to the exercise. We will engage with An Garda Síochána, the Department of Justice and the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, OPC, on that.

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