Frank Fahey (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

The Statute of the International Criminal Court deals with a specific range of offences detailed in the relevant articles of the statute. On the crime of aggression, Article 5(2) provides for the International Criminal Court to exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is adopted in accordance with Articles 121 and 123. This allows flexibility to the court in the manner in which that crime will be dealt with. However, until those provisions have been adopted to deal with the crime of aggression it is not appropriate to legislate specifically for them. Accordingly I do not propose to accept the Deputy's amendment. On the points raised by Deputy Michael D. Higgins, the obligations to the genocide convention are not affected by this legislation. We will deal with those under amendment No. 12. On the extension of the Act to other offences, we will deal with this under the Labour Party amendment No. 18.

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