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Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I have made the points I wished to raise on amendment No. 5. The points made by the Minister of State on the high bar that is needed are arguments not to have the religious defence. As there is a high bar, regular religious discourse will not fall into the realm of hate speech. It would do so only if it crosses a very high bar and is hateful. That is the context. That is the only...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: That was freedom of expression in operation. Freedom of expression is the freedom not to agree. Does the Minister of State accept there is a risk here, that we are engaged in a sensitive and risky area that touches on the right to freedom of expression and that although it is appropriate that hate speech and hate crime is dealt with, it is very important that the right to freedom of...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, to delete lines 1 to 30. This amendment and the later amendment relating to the demonstration test are the two most significant issues for us and where we have the greatest problem. Section 10 is very problematic. I read the transcript of the Committee Stage debate and the Minister did not fundamentally deal with this issue. Section 10 creates the...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, line 7, to delete “ “hatred” means hatred” and substitute “ “hatred” means a state of mind characterised as intense and irrational emotions of opprobrium, enmity, and detestation rooted in bias, prejudice or hostility”. We are going to withdraw amendment No. 1. I will speak to amendments Nos. 2, 3...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: We take the point on amendment No. 1 in the context of the case law that establishes what hatred means. To explain what we are doing in amendments Nos. 2 to 4, inclusive, we are saying that someone would be guilty of an offence if they communicated material to the public or behaved in a public place in a manner likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or group of persons....

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, line 13, to delete “or hatred” and substitute “or intimidation, hostility or discrimination”.

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, line 15, to delete “or hatred” and substitute “or intimidation, hostility or discrimination”.

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, line 17, to delete “or hatred” and substitute “or intimidation, hostility or discrimination”.

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I move amendment No. 5: In page 8, line 28, to delete “religious”. The purpose of this amendment is to remove as a defence for hate speech material that something is a reasonable and genuine contribution to religious discourse. Many very positive messages of solidarity, support and charity stem from religious discourse. Many other messages are issued - theological points...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach join us in calling for Murphy International to reinstate the so-called Murphy 4. These are four workers with a combined 50 years' experience in the construction company Murphy International who were sacked in what was a very clear and blatant attempt at union busting. Murphy International is a massive company generating more than £1.27 billion in revenues last year....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the crisis facing many children who are in Tusla's care. I spoke to an impressive young man a couple of weeks ago. He is a 16-year-old who is in care. He has been in care for about ten years. He lived with his mother for the first five or six years of his life and then he was taken into care. He is currently 16 and lives with his grandmother. He said...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: Will it not be on Thursday afternoon when the Ceann Comhairle invites him?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: Will the Ceann Comhairle make sure we get lots of notice for it?

Twenty-Third Report of the Committee of Selection: Motion (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is not agreed on the grounds that it includes the removal of Deputy Neasa Hourigan from three committees which, in effect, is a punishment of her for voting against the eviction ban. She was right to vote against the eviction ban and she should not be punished on that basis.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the proposed child poverty unit in his Department. [19374/23]

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: Surely landlords should not be voting tonight on this issue. There is a conflict of interest.

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: Surely it is completely inappropriate for Deputy Healy-Rae to vote on something that affects his personal economic interest.

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: That is the essence of the issue here.

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is landlords voting here in their own economic interest rather than in the public interest. They should recuse themselves from the vote this evening.

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is a particular class of landlords. It is not like-----