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

Matt Carthy: Apologies have been received from Deputy Butterly. I understand Deputy Boland will attend in substitution for her. I remind members to turn off their phones. As indicated, we are dealing with the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025. As I have submitted a number of amendments I propose to vacate the Chair and ask for a proposal for a temporary Chair.

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

Matt Carthy: Is that agreed? Agreed. We will suspend for a couple of moments while the Minister and his officials come in.

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

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act 2. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following new definitions: “ ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the acts specified in Article 7 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court;...

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

Matt Carthy: To be clear to the committee, as the Minister has touched on with regard to the purposes of the amendments, amendments Nos. 1 to 7, inclusive, in my name, are essentially a foundation for later amendments to define the circumstances of when it would be an offence to join, train or recruit for an armed force that is engaged in crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide. Amendment No. 2...

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

Matt Carthy: I am not sure what the reference was to Arab states. I am sure the Minister was just being flippant because I would not be trying to follow the standards set by Arab states, quite frankly, particularly those who have remained either silent or complicit in what Israel has been doing in Palestine. The truth of the matter is that the term "governed by the rules of international law" is a...

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

Matt Carthy: Yes.

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

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No.2: In page 3, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “ ‘organising or facilitating travel for the purpose of serving in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide’ shall be construed in accordance with section 4F;”.

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

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “ ‘providing training in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide’ shall be construed in accordance with section 4F;”.

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

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 4: In page 3, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “ ‘receiving training in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide’ shall be construed in accordance with section 4F;”.

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

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 5: In page 3, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “ ‘recruitment for purpose of serving in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide’ shall be construed in accordance with section 4F;”.

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

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 6: In page 3, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “ ‘travel for purpose of serving in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide’ shall be construed in accordance with section 4F;”.

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

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 7: In page 4, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(f) organising or facilitating travel for the purpose of serving in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide, (g) providing training in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide, (h) receiving training...

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

Matt Carthy: I support this amendment, which captures participation by state bodies, such as the IDF, in a different way to our own amendments but in a way that does not contravene them. All of this is necessitated by the fact that EU domestic law excludes armed forces from states, such as Israel, being designated as a terrorist group regardless of what they are involved in. It is deeply troubling that...

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

Matt Carthy: For clarity, to follow on from Deputy Gannon’s question, the Minister said aiding or abetting genocide would be considered a criminal act. Would he consider membership of the IDF as aiding or abetting genocide?

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

Matt Carthy: My difficulty is that if I had asked the Minister the same question in respect of ISIS, quite rightly he would have been able to answer in a heartbeat. The truth is one terrorist organisation is considered as such by law but another, the IDF, is not.

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

Matt Carthy: I am sure this will come as no surprise to the Minister but I wish to indicate we will be opposing this section because it is this section that makes this legislation not fit for purpose. The most significant problem with the legislation, as we articulated it during the debate on Second Stage, is the widening of the definition of the "provocation" of terrorism contained in section 3. As I...

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

Matt Carthy: The Minister described the existing Act as clunky. I think it is one of the clearest provisions one could see. It is fairly straightforward. It speaks of "public provocation to commit a terrorist offence". What does that mean? It means "intentional distribution ... by whatever means of communication ... of a message to the public, with the intent of encouraging, directly or indirectly,...

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

Matt Carthy: The point has been made forcefully. I do not think that the Minister has fully presented any rationale, or something that could be reasonably construed as a rationale, in terms of the need for this change. If the word "encouraging" is the problem with the 2015 legislation, an amendment should be brought forward to change that word. I think that the Minister would probably get the support...

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

Matt Carthy: I move amendment No. 10: In page 7, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “Training for purpose of serving in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide 4F. (1) For the purposes of this Part, training in the armed forces of a state engaged in the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide means...