Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage

2:00 am

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)

I formally dispute what Deputy Carthy says. It is not wide open to abuse. If the Deputy reads the proposed wording that I am putting forward to the committee, he will see that it is completely different from what is contained in the UK legislation. I refer to section 13 of the UK Terrorism Act. It is not that dissimilar from the provision that has been in force here for ten years now, in the 2005 Act as amended in 2015. As I said, it simply requires that there is an intention of inciting persons to commit terrorist activity. That is something that I think we all agree we should not permit to occur.

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