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Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: I will share time with Deputies Ward and Paul Donnelly. Tógfaidh mé deich nóiméad dom féin. I commend the Minister of State's speech, which is excellently written. I will deal with a few things within in. There is reference in it to assisting people with mental health and addiction conditions. As we know, I believe there were 7,000 call-outs to An Garda...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: I listened while others were talking about the upcoming anniversary. There is another anniversary coming up, as the Taoiseach is aware, with regard to Ballyseedy. People may or may not know of the incident, nearly 100 years ago, when eight prisoners were taken from custody, tied to a landmine and blown up. I recently spoke to the nephew of one of the men who was killed. He is upset that,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (22 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: I read the Minister of State's reply, but what is not stated is the average length of time it takes Kerry County Council to turn around a vacant house. I understand that we have to deal with families and that there are items left behind, which is sometimes the case. In Tobar Naofa, there are ten units are vacant. One vacant house facing onto the Dean's Lane side of the complex has been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vacant Properties (22 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: In the dying days of Tralee Town Council, there was a focus on housing for the elderly. A scheme was enacted in respect of land at the rear of an old convent in the centre of town that was gifted by the Sisters of Mercy. The development there is called Tobar Naofa. I visited the area last week. There are 56 housing units constructed to the highest specifications, with their own heating...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: Last Friday I was in the Mitchels area of Tralee. I visited an award-winning social housing scheme for older people of 56 houses. I was informed that ten of those houses are empty and another four have been unoccupied for more than three years because the tenants are part of the fair deal scheme and have been in a nursing home for up to three years. Almost 25% of the houses in this scheme,...

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

Pa Daly: In relation to amendment No. 4, it is more or less the same. The way that it is defined at the moment is that ""hatred" means hatred against a person or a group". It is just to flesh out the definition in a more comprehensive way.

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

Pa Daly: Amendment No. 12 speaks for itself. Similarly, amendment No. 21, which relates to migration status, also speaks for itself, as do the others.

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

Pa Daly: Amendment No. 95 speaks for itself and not later than five years after the Act that the Minister will commence a review of the operation of the Act. Given the conversations that have taken place so far it might not be necessary. Not later than 12 months after the commencement of the review to make a report to each House of the Oireachtas on the findings.

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

Pa Daly: I will withdraw that later amendment.

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

Pa Daly: Amendment No. 38 speaks for itself in that "presumed membership" is a situation where somebody might be confused on the motivation, for example, on a particular nationality but they might get it wrong. That should be included.

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

Pa Daly: I move amendment No. 29: In page 8, to delete lines 12 and 13 and substitute the following: “that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of their membership or presumed membership of a group defined by reference to protected characteristics, or any one of those characteristics and,”. I will withdraw the amendment on the...

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

Pa Daly: I move amendment No. 38: In page 8, to delete lines 36 and 37 and substitute the following: “persons on account of their membership or presumed membership of a group defined by reference to protected characteristics, or any one of those characteristics,”.

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

Pa Daly: I move amendment No. 39: In page 9, to delete lines 22 to 26 and substitute the following: “where such communication of material or behaviour is directed against a person or group of persons on account of their membership or presumed membership of a group defined by reference to protected characteristics, or any one of those characteristics and is done with intent to incite...

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

Pa Daly: I move amendment No. 42: In page 10, to delete lines 22 and 23 and substitute the following: “of persons on account of their membership or presumed membership of a group defined by reference to protected characteristics (within the meaning of section 7 or 8, as the case may be), or any one of those characteristics,”.

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

Pa Daly: I move amendment No. 43: In page 11, to delete lines 1 to 9 and substitute the following: “(a) prepares or possesses material which is threatening, abusive or insulting that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics with a clear and serious intention of communicating...

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

Pa Daly: We discussed this matter with certain groups and individuals and it is believed that it constitutes an undue interference with the right to private life and does not meet the criminal standard of proof with regard to the intention side of things.

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

Pa Daly: Can I also speak to that amendment?