Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)
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Absolutely. I also have a key concern around the implementation of the strategy and I have raised this with the Department of equality. Across a whole broad range of measures, the State suffers from implementation deficit disorder in implementing many of the great strategies we have. We have some brilliant glossy documents for strategies but many of them we have failed to implement. We also get some promising political commitments and then those get pulled back on. Mr. Herrick highlighted one, which is the modernising of the incitement to hatred Act, concerning the remarks about commitments made potentially being rowed back on. Will Mr. Herrick talk to us more about what he would like to see in the modernisation of the Act and why it is important the Government does modernise the incitement to hatred Act.