Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As the House will be aware, this month marks the 25th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, a former Minister. As we all know, for far too many decades members of the LGBT community were wrongly discriminated against and many were convicted on charges of being gay. In the UK, Turing's law was passed to pardon all those who were convicted before decriminalisation was introduced. I am aware that the Northern Assembly passed a motion calling for a pardon. Will the Taoiseach indicate whether the Government intends to bring forth legislation to achieve a similar objective, namely, to pardon all those who were convicted? This dates back not to a latter era but to the mid-1970s, when up to 50 people were prosecuted.

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