Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Amidst the fantastic celebrations of Pride last week, two events involving very aggravated assaults in Port Laoise and a brick being thrown through the window of Pantibar showed the daily challenge members of our LGBT community face in terms of hatred legislation. Deputy O'Loughlin's Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016 has gone through various committees and pre-legislative scrutiny. Yesterday, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties published its report calling for hate crime legislation to be introduced. Will this Bill be allowed to proceed in the Dáil to deal with and provide for the kind of situations that are happening daily?

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