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- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: That is in order.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: There are four amendments, Nos. 27 to 30, inclusive, in the next grouping. The position is similar to that of the previous grouping, namely, amendments Nos. 28 to 30, inclusive, will, by definition, fall if amendment No. 27 is agreed to. However, we can have some discussion on these amendments if members wish to raise policy issues. If they wish to press the amendments, that is possible also.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Would the Minister mind repeating her final point? She has indicated that this is related to section 15 as well. Is that right?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Section 15 as it stands, as opposed to as amended.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I think the Deputy is referring to section 4 of the 1964 Act, the homicide provisions-----
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: -----which have given rise to lots of jurisprudence-----
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Very good. It is certainly tried and tested.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: On that section, is the term "grossly offensive" defined in the definitions section of the Bill? How is that to be defined?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I would like to flag for the record that I may return to this amendment on Report Stage. I will not elaborate on it now.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I believe that was the difficulty under the old section 10. The fact that prosecution required repetition was the reason for some of the complaints about prosecutions around cyber issues. The Minister is saying that is not the case in this section, as drafted.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: As a result of the agreement of amendment No. 27, amendments Nos. 28 to 30, inclusive, fall. In addition, the agreement of amendment No. 27 has resulted in the deletion of section 5 of the Bill.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: That is noted and in order.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I recognise that Deputy Niamh Smyth has joined us as a new member of the committee and will be with us going forward. She is welcome. I look forward to her contributions today and on other days into the future. I wish her well on this committee. Amendment No. 31, in the name of the Minister, proposes a new section 6 of the Bill. Amendments Nos. 31 and 39 to 41, inclusive, are related...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I need to take guidance.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: The sequence is important here. I need the Minister to move amendment No. 31, after which we will take Deputy Howlin's amendment to the amendment as part of this grouping. I remind the committee that amendments Nos. 39 to 41, inclusive, are related. However, we will take them separately because they do not relate to the first two, which are quite closely intertwined.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I will move swiftly to Deputy Howlin because I know he has an amendment to that amendment. It makes sense if we take them together.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I invite Deputy Pringle to speak to amendments No. 39 to 41, inclusive, in his name.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Perhaps the Deputy will speak to those amendments, and that will complete the grouping.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: That is across the Deputy's three amendments, effectively.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: How stands Deputy Howlin's amendment to the amendment?