Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
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I add my support to Deputy Carthy's amendments. They are vital. While the Bill might have been tailored for a very specific situation, we do not get to separate which forms of terrorism we consider allowable, almost, in an international context and which ones we do not. There are now members of armed forces prohibiting baby formula from getting to groups of people, starving people and then shooting them while they queue for food.

That is terrorism by any definition. I think a line in our own legislation regarding the International Criminal Court and the ICJ is entirely appropriate for a terrorist offences Bill and that we should be seeking to support this insofar as we can and getting in front of it by allowing the amendments today.