Dáil debates

Friday, 24 January 2014

Censorship of Publications Board Repeal Bill 2013: Second Stage

 

10:00 am

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

The Censorship of Publications Board is an outdated relic from a different era. It has lingered on while time has passed it by. The board has been bereft of members since 2011 and had only one book referred to it in the past five years, namely, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter’s Laura. Its strikes a lonely figure in the Government’s approach of cronyism to board appointments.

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