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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I was going to speak to Deputy Byrne about that. As the two Chairs, we could do something together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses. I am quite conscious we have an ex-RTÉ employee here as well. The current issues with RTÉ have been outlined pretty starkly and we need to reflect on them as regards what we will be saying with this legislation. The point about the independent versus the commercial, how those sectors get their funding and the conditionality around same is an important one....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: We need it by early next week at the very latest. It would be good if the unions could be quite vocal on the issue of the funding model that was proposed and the streaming levy. We all know the Minister has a certain view on that. We all have a certain view on it as well. It would be good if the unions expressed themselves on that because we are coming to a critical time. When it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: There is huge overlap. That fact has been enhanced here again in relation to artists, workers and their capacity to earn their livelihoods, and what conditionality we can propose to attach to the transposition of the AI directive in that regard. I am conscious of the workers who are in a difficult and different place in RTÉ. I presume that, with the reduction of 400-odd workers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: There will be something there for the committee to look at. I thank all the witnesses for their time. Sorry it was so late. I appreciate them coming in. Accidentally, we had them coming in the same week as the ICTU conference. That was a complete scheduling accident. This meeting was very engaging and well worthwhile.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: It did not affect the outcome on Sunday either.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Business of Select Committee (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I nominate Deputy Callaghan.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I have a similar amendment. It is not grouped with these. It is probably slightly different but not very much different. I support these amendments for all the reasons my colleagues have given. It would be more problematic for us as a country if we do not do this. I think the Minister would be asked why not. The public are not really interested in the intricacies of a Bill and an...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I asked earlier, and the Minister did not respond in his comments, whether he is willing to work with this committee on some form of compromise that we as a justice committee, on behalf of the Oireachtas, could go to the Irish people with to state that we all feel the same way about this matter and that what we are willing to put into the legislation to ensure it reflects what the Irish...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(f) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3): “(4) For the purposes of this Act and notwithstanding any enactment (other than sections 5 and 6 of the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Act 1967) or rule of law— (a) the fact that a group is or...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I will wait for the Minister to reply.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am very disappointed. The Labour Party brought this forward to bring absolute certainty that members of the Israel Defense Forces could and would be prosecuted and declared as a terrorist organisation for the atrocities they are conducting in Palestine every day, every night and every hour, almost. We really hoped this Government would support us. The amendment is in the spirit of what...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I think I have said everything in relation to this issue. I am disappointed that the Minister is not in a position to work with us even on this issue, so I will be pressing my amendment.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I move amendment No. 9: In page 4, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(2) Proceedings for the offence of terrorist-linked activity consisting of public provocation to commit a terrorist offence shall not succeed unless there is material evidence as to an intention on the part of the accused, formed prior to the distribution or publication concerned, to incite...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: The Minister might say this amendment is not dealing with the same things as the UK legislation. It is dealing with what we have in Irish legislation. He is right. He was also right in describing the legislation that is being changed by this legislation as clunky. He has used the word "trigger" quite a bit. What is the test? What triggers incitement? That is the reason I put in this...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I will press the amendment with a sense of hope that the Minister will reflect. There is a reason legislation was drafted without the word "material" over the decades when it comes to incitement. There is now a reason in the more modern world for interpretations to be more defined because of the advent of technology and the disintermediation of some other mediums. We probably need to be...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 236. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to ensure that Nenagh Military Barracks is maintained and a plan is put in place for its future. [37879/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of all capital works on schools in Tipperary that exceeded €500,000, from 2020 to 1 July 2025, by year and school, in tabular form. [37880/25]