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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: I thank the Deputy. Did Deputy Pringle want to say anything on amendment No. 6? It is grouped.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: Amendment No. 26, in Deputy Ó Ríordáin's name, is also part of that grouping. I do not know whether the Deputy wants to make any further comment on that.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: When we come to it later on, we will move through it. We will not discuss it again because we have had the group discussion.

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: I will need to use the cameras to get my time back.

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: I thank the Minister of State and wish her good luck in the new role she has been assigned. I have every confidence she will make a great success of it. I am very pleased we are moving now towards the establishment of a citizens’ assembly. At the outset, I thank my colleagues across the parties on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice. I also thank my secretariat, the clerk,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: I am sure the committee will recall that when we did prelegislative scrutiny on this legislation, it was one of our findings that it was important to have precision in criminal law because prosecutions flow from it. Elements of the crime must be satisfied in order to have successful prosecutions. I listened to Deputy Ó Ríordáin's comments about the 1989 Act and perhaps the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: We have lots of other amendments to do but if the Deputy wants to make a brief point that is all right.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: How stands amendment No. 2?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: The Minister has noted that position.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: As the proposers of amendment No. 5 are not in the room the amendment falls.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: Is Deputy Pringle satisfied with that engagement?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: Amendments Nos. 9 and 14 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: Does the Deputy wish to speak to amendment No. 14 separately or has he covered it?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: Amendments Nos. 10, 12, 15 and 19 to 23, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: There are a few other Deputies proposing amendments in this grouping. Amendment No. 12 is in the names of Deputies Pa Daly and Martin Kenny.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: How stands the amendment?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: Amendment No. 13 is not in the group but some of the discussion was on it. It is Deputy Ó Ríordáin's amendment. He can speak to it again, if he wishes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: Amendment No. 14 falls because No. 9 has not been accepted.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: It is on the same basis as amendment No. 9, which was withdrawn on the basis it may be reintroduced on Report Stage. That can carry over to amendment No. 14.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

James Lawless: Amendment No. 15 was taken with amendment No. 10. The related amendment has been withdrawn. They go together.