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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I congratulate Senator Mullen on that because he has an opportunity to continue to be offensive after this legislation passes. It is not about Senator Mullen and people being offended, giving offence or taking offence; it is about a legal framework to protect people who have repeatedly been the subject of abuse, harassment and crime in this community. It is about saying to them: we...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: That is not what the Bill is about. It does not outlaw giving offence or taking offence. After this legislation passes, even without the hate speech elements of it, it will still be permissible to say things that are offensive. It was never going to be any other way, but Senator Mullen repeatedly suggests that in an attempt to include in his army of misinformation things that are simply...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: That is why there is a definition in section 3.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: Once again, you have managed to be offensive without actually contributing to the debate. It is about saying that if a person is part of a group that is repeatedly targeted, we recognise that is a serious matter. It is an aggravating factor and is a crime all of its own. It is appropriate for these Houses to recognise the impact that has on those individuals and to say, if you are going to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: On a point of order, we are debating the first grouping of amendments, all of which are technical in nature and deal primarily with the name of the Bill. We are now having a rehash of the speech that Senator Mullen made earlier. It is not in order, it does not relate to the amendments that are being discussed and it is repetitive.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: The Senator-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: The God-help-us gender.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I will begin by echoing what my colleague Senator Lombard said about planning for schools and making sure parents have certainty about where their children will go. It is very important. In addition to what he said, I know that schools in my area are having great difficulty recruiting teachers to do the work. The space is provided and the facilities are there but they cannot get the...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: Tomorrow, at 10:30 a.m.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State for coming to deal with this matter. The sewerage system in Dublin, particularly in south Dublin, is Victorian. When I say "south Dublin", I refer to an area of Dublin around Dún Laoghaire, Blackrock and further south that experienced extraordinary development during the Victorian era. The sewerage system built at that time still services that area. They...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State. I acknowledge he is deputising for another Minister but that is a real pro forma answer. Talking about identifying bathing spots and when people use them by 24 March 2025 is a little bit of a nonsense. If Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council wants help identifying the places people are swimming, I will tell the council now. As to when people are...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I welcome the Bill. It is overdue. We did not need to wait until the High Court told us last month that this needed to be done. I drafted a Bill that came before the House in March 2023, namely the Criminal Justice (Juvenile Offenders) Bill, Bill No. 30 of 2023, which sought to do the same thing in a different way and went slightly further. The idea behind this Bill is simple. The...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: Now.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1990 2. The Act of 1990 is amended by the substitution of the following for section 2: “Sentence for treason and murder 2. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person convicted of treason or murder shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life. (2) Where a...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: That senior counsel was clearly not practising criminal law because given the state of the fees in criminal law nobody complains about them. I hear what the Minister of State is saying. I do not agree but so be it. I do not propose to press the amendment.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Amendment of Children Act 2001 4. The Children Act 2001 is amended, in section 151, by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3): "(3) Subject to subsection (4), the Court shall specify, in its absolute discretion, which portion of a period for which a detention and supervision...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "Application of section 99 of Criminal Justice Act 2006 4. The provisions of section 99 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 (as amended) shall apply to criminal proceedings involving a person who, at the time the offence was committed, had not reached the age of 18 years, as if the term "imprisonment" were...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second and Subsequent Stages (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: There is a temptation to press the amendment to see how the vote goes.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Birth Registration (2 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. The issue I wish to raise today relates to the foreign birth registry. This is in respect of children who are de facto Irish by dint of their parentage but who are born outside the island of Ireland. Specifically, I refer to grandchildren of Irish-born grandparents or the children of parents who were Irish at the time of their birth. It does not apply to...