Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I have no difficulty with the convention. This House created the crime of genocide in 1973. The Minister of State wishes to maintain that obligation on us in subsection 7(3). He says subsection (2), which repeals the Genocide Act 1973, is without prejudice to the State's obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1948, the text of which is set out in the Schedule to the 1973 Act.

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