Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Select Committee on Justice and Equality
Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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There is clearly a technical difficulty with that when one must manage all the legislation and the Statute Book, and the read across of those different things. It is completely understandable why they would want that.
Could the Minister commit that in internal documents in the Department and in the presentation and explanation of it in conferences and as we go around talking about the law from now on, rather than it being strictly within the Title of the Bill, there is a way in which the Department could commit to using that phrase in its non-statutory language as part of the development of explaining the Bill over the next period? Perhaps, that is something to reflect on over time.