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- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: It is section 4, amendment No. 13, which seeks to insert a new offence of stalking as a stand-alone provision.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I thank the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Does the Minister wish to respond on that point?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Section 10, as it stands, in the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act may be considered quite a robust piece of legislation that is used regularly across the courts.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Deputy Smith has indicated remotely and wishes to contribute to this. Is that right?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Thank you Deputy, we take the point. I call Deputy Carroll Mac Neill.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: That concludes discussion on amendment No. 13. How stands the amendment? Is Deputy Pringle happy to withdraw the amendment on the basis of our discussion?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Amendments No. 14 is related to amendments Nos. 32 and 47 and they will be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: That amendment, I believe, will be taken at the end, Minister. The Minister may discuss that amendment now and we will move it at a later stage.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: We will be discussing amendment No. 46.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Is the Minister moving that amendment?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: We will come on to and decide that at a later stage but it has been discussed and spoken to now, which is all in order. We move now to amendment No. 14, which will be discussed with amendments Nos. 32 and 47 as part of this round, but we will take the amendments as we reach them.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I thank the Deputy. We will now consider amendment No. 32 unless the Minister wishes to respond to amendment No. 14.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: I thank the Minister for that. That ties in with amendment No. 12 which I have spoken to earlier in a similar vein.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Very good.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: We have spoken on amendment No. 14 and have touched on amendment No. 32 as well. Does Deputy Pringle wish to come back in again?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: The Minister is saying that the exegesis of the offence would include the necessity of a relationship. It could be a defence to a prosecution under that section to claim they were not known to each other.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: It would complicate matters. It would be harder to bring home a prosecution.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: It seems sensible.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)
James Lawless: Amendments Nos. 15 to 26, inclusive, are related and may be taken together.