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

Barry Ward: Go raibh maith agat, a Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I will start by addressing that issue. This Bill has been discussed to an extraordinary extent on Committee Stage. Yes, it was a while ago and the reason for that is because the Minister took away-----

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

Barry Ward: Go ahead, Senator Mullen.

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

Barry Ward: Yes. The Bill has been discussed. I may have misspoken in respect of Committee Stage. The Bill has been discussed extensively in this House. It has been discussed at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice as well. There is no lack of discussion on this subject. Senator Mullen and I have shared platforms in respect of this on a number of occasions. We have been in the media on this...

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

Barry Ward: No, what the Senator disputed is that there is no difference between, let us say, a child born in Africa who is ethnically African and comes to this country and is assaulted in the course of a hate crime, called names, othered and essentially told they are not welcome, and a child who is assaulted because somebody does not like that child's father. There is a fundamental difference between...

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

Barry Ward: When we look at the percentage of the vote and support that you enjoy, Senator Mullen-----

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

Barry Ward: -----relative to what is enjoyed by the Government, then you can start assessing who the people have confidence in.

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

Barry Ward: The second issue Senator Mullen raised was the definition of gender. Again, I have raised it in this House on a number of occasions. There is an expansive, extensive and broad definition of gender in section 3. It is there for a very good reason - because the very people who fall outside the traditional norms of gender in this society are the same people who are repeatedly targeted for...

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

Barry Ward: There is no basis whatsoever for that accusation. The definitions in this Bill specifically relate to the matters that are dealt with in this Bill. Different words are defined differently in various pieces of legislation because they are approached differently. They do not always mean the same thing in different contexts. That is a normal part of legislative practice. It is not unusual....

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

Barry Ward: I congratulate Senator Mullen on that because he has an opportunity to continue to be offensive after this legislation passes. It is not about Senator Mullen and people being offended, giving offence or taking offence; it is about a legal framework to protect people who have repeatedly been the subject of abuse, harassment and crime in this community. It is about saying to them: we...

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

Barry Ward: That is not what the Bill is about. It does not outlaw giving offence or taking offence. After this legislation passes, even without the hate speech elements of it, it will still be permissible to say things that are offensive. It was never going to be any other way, but Senator Mullen repeatedly suggests that in an attempt to include in his army of misinformation things that are simply...

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

Barry Ward: That is why there is a definition in section 3.

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

Barry Ward: Once again, you have managed to be offensive without actually contributing to the debate. It is about saying that if a person is part of a group that is repeatedly targeted, we recognise that is a serious matter. It is an aggravating factor and is a crime all of its own. It is appropriate for these Houses to recognise the impact that has on those individuals and to say, if you are going to...

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

Barry Ward: On a point of order, we are debating the first grouping of amendments, all of which are technical in nature and deal primarily with the name of the Bill. We are now having a rehash of the speech that Senator Mullen made earlier. It is not in order, it does not relate to the amendments that are being discussed and it is repetitive.

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

Barry Ward: The Senator-----

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

Barry Ward: The God-help-us gender.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I will begin by echoing what my colleague Senator Lombard said about planning for schools and making sure parents have certainty about where their children will go. It is very important. In addition to what he said, I know that schools in my area are having great difficulty recruiting teachers to do the work. The space is provided and the facilities are there but they cannot get the...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: Tomorrow, at 10:30 a.m.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State for coming to deal with this matter. The sewerage system in Dublin, particularly in south Dublin, is Victorian. When I say "south Dublin", I refer to an area of Dublin around Dún Laoghaire, Blackrock and further south that experienced extraordinary development during the Victorian era. The sewerage system built at that time still services that area. They...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (3 Oct 2024)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State. I acknowledge he is deputising for another Minister but that is a real pro forma answer. Talking about identifying bathing spots and when people use them by 24 March 2025 is a little bit of a nonsense. If Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council wants help identifying the places people are swimming, I will tell the council now. As to when people are...