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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (17 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: For reasons of maintaining full confidentiality, it is not my Department's practice to comment on whether an application for asylum or subsidiary protection has been made in the State. An applicant for such protection status, or their legal representative, should contact either the International Protection Office (IPO) or the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) directly, as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (17 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Citizenship Division of my Department has requested further documentation from the person cited by the Deputy. The person concerned has been given 28 days from the date of the letter to provide this information. On receipt, Citizenship Division will resume processing this application. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my...

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

Helen McEntee: All these amendments aim to do two things: first, to remove all the incitement to violence or hatred provisions from the Bill; and second, to deal with the consequential amendments arising from enactment of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023. I will deal with these separately and will start with the first tranche. As Senators are aware, the Bill originally aimed to...

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

Helen McEntee: Very briefly on this again, I will refer back to what exactly we are trying to achieve here. The amendments we are speaking to are technical in nature and remove quite a significant part of this legislation. I genuinely regret that this is where we are at now. For a lot of legislation, you will not always reach a consensus but for the most part, you need to have a consensus and that was...

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

Helen McEntee: They are real crimes but these are real people who are more likely to be targeted because of the fact they are transgender. Senator Mullen's amendments and his objective here would mean that these people are not protected.

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

Helen McEntee: I would like to hear from Senators throughout this debate. If the objective of this Bill relates to people who are targeted simply because of who they are - we can clearly see this, and the reason we have chosen these characteristics is because we know these people are more likely to be targeted - why would Senators not include in this Bill people who are more likely to be targeted than...

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

Helen McEntee: In a court of law their perpetrator would not get a higher sentence compared to somebody who was attacked because of the colour of their skin, where they came from, their religion or any other characteristic, disability or otherwise. They would not be protected. They would have to produce a certificate.Should I have to produce a certificate if I am attacked because I am a woman? Should the...

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

Helen McEntee: Amendments Nos. 2 and 13 are required because of the removal of the Schedule to the Bill, which itself is due to the proposed removal of Part 2. The provisions in Part 2 were intended to address most of our outstanding obligations to full transposition of Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA of 28 November 2008 on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means...

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

Helen McEntee: I have read them.

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

Helen McEntee: I have read them.

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

Helen McEntee: I have read them and I understand-----

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

Helen McEntee: I have read and understand the intention behind the Senator's amendment, but it does not protect-----

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

Helen McEntee: -----a transgender person.

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

Helen McEntee: It is precisely these people who are at risk of being victimised due to their gender identity. Protection cannot, and should not, be limited to binary gender identities of male and female. Let me be abundantly clear: this legislation has nothing to do with a victim's legal status. The definition of gender set out in this legislation-----

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

Helen McEntee: -----applies only in the context of hate crime.

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

Helen McEntee: I stand by my point.

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

Helen McEntee: The definition of "gender" set out in this legislation applies only in the context of hate crime. We need a broad and inclusive definition of gender because we are, by and large, a broad and inclusive society that encompasses these diverse gender identities.

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

Helen McEntee: I was not referring to the Senator's amendment, so-----

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

Helen McEntee: I was not referring to the Senator's amendment. He has not spoken yet.

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

Helen McEntee: I stand corrected on the Senator's point.