Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

Other legislation can be utilised, for example, as detailed in the reply, in circumstances of assault.

There will be no tolerance of racism. Both the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and I will continue to do what we can do within our remit to ensure racism, so far as it can be stamped out, is stamped out. Other Departments and various civil society bodies have an important role to play in educating people to recognise the value and importance of cultural diversity. Much of that is already happening in our school system. Good work is being done at both primary and secondary level in those areas.

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