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Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(f) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3): “(4) For the purposes of this Act and notwithstanding any enactment (other than sections 5 and 6 of the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Act 1967) or rule of law— (a) the fact that a group is or...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I will wait for the Minister to reply.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am very disappointed. The Labour Party brought this forward to bring absolute certainty that members of the Israel Defense Forces could and would be prosecuted and declared as a terrorist organisation for the atrocities they are conducting in Palestine every day, every night and every hour, almost. We really hoped this Government would support us. The amendment is in the spirit of what...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I think I have said everything in relation to this issue. I am disappointed that the Minister is not in a position to work with us even on this issue, so I will be pressing my amendment.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I move amendment No. 9: In page 4, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(2) Proceedings for the offence of terrorist-linked activity consisting of public provocation to commit a terrorist offence shall not succeed unless there is material evidence as to an intention on the part of the accused, formed prior to the distribution or publication concerned, to incite...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: The Minister might say this amendment is not dealing with the same things as the UK legislation. It is dealing with what we have in Irish legislation. He is right. He was also right in describing the legislation that is being changed by this legislation as clunky. He has used the word "trigger" quite a bit. What is the test? What triggers incitement? That is the reason I put in this...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I will press the amendment with a sense of hope that the Minister will reflect. There is a reason legislation was drafted without the word "material" over the decades when it comes to incitement. There is now a reason in the more modern world for interpretations to be more defined because of the advent of technology and the disintermediation of some other mediums. We probably need to be...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 236. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to ensure that Nenagh Military Barracks is maintained and a plan is put in place for its future. [37879/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of all capital works on schools in Tipperary that exceeded €500,000, from 2020 to 1 July 2025, by year and school, in tabular form. [37880/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 888. To ask the Minister for Health in which month the new 96-bed block in UHL will be open to patients. [37878/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 939. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to financially support community cafes across the country. [37877/25]

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: It is concerning how we got to this stage today where we are dealing with these motions in the manner in which we are dealing with them. Frankly, it is unacceptable that we are dealing with such important motions in this haphazard way. The fact one of the motions had to be withdrawn by the Minister at the last minute just goes to show how shoddily this issue is being dealt with. Why was...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I recently met MABS and was taken aback by the range of issues people had. I have listened attentively to what the Minister said today about cost-of-living measures. I acknowledge those actions. In the past three years, however, there have been a range of one-off cost-of-living measures in budgets, which have been welcomed. I want to get all the nonsense out of the way and ask...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff (3 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that his Department recently advertised for two internships at the Embassy of Ireland, Paris, for which the advertised rate of pay was €4.35 per hour, that this rate of pay is far below the minimum wage in either France or Ireland, that this rate of pay would not even come close to covering accommodation costs, and...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: What was shown on the "RTÉ Investigates" programme - well done to those who made it - was disgraceful. We have many fine private nursing homes, but when we allow the development of a for-profit model for investors - there are large-scale investors in a large proportion of these nursing homes, as the Minister of State knows - that have borrowed money at low interest rates and there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister. To let everyone know, the Minister is supporting Tipperary in the hurling this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Ministers for their comprehensive statements.