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

Rónán Mullen: Let me sum it up. The Minister has spoken about what she is taking out. She has said we should be satisfied with what she is leaving in. The definition of "gender" confuses gender, which is objective and has to deal with the male-female binary, and gender identity and expression, which you might also see fit to include as a basis for protecting a group. Confusing them and redefining them...

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

Rónán Mullen: Of course. I always take a point from the Senator, though I might not agree with it.

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

Rónán Mullen: That is a classic tactical point that Government Senators repeatedly make. What I have noticed in the past here is that other Senators might come in and set out. I have not repeated myself hardly once in the context of what I have set out. I cannot believe that my colleague and friend, Senator Ward, said what he said. Here we are for the first time in more than year since we last...

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

Rónán Mullen: That I accept. Using the Government's majority.

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

Rónán Mullen: When Senator Ward tells me he is uncomfortable about the use of the guillotine, I will listen with more eagerness to what he has to say about the relative length of speeches. This is one speech that has to be made, however, because there is a lot that is still wrong with the Bill.

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

Rónán Mullen: The Senator said "Committee Stage". Can I offer the Senator a point of information?

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

Rónán Mullen: It is the least the Senator could do. Senator Ward said “Committee Stage”. We have not had discussion on Committee Stage. Everybody had one speech on Second Stage in the Seanad and this is Committee Stage.

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

Rónán Mullen: Will Senator Ward take a point of information? I did not dispute that view today that judges have latitude in this area.

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

Rónán Mullen: And end the Government.

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

Rónán Mullen: I got my quota.

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

Rónán Mullen: There is a new definition.

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

Rónán Mullen: I never said it did.

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

Rónán Mullen: I wish.

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

Rónán Mullen: I would be delighted if you went back to it. You have been manipulating gender very conveniently for years.

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

Rónán Mullen: It says, gender bending.

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

Rónán Mullen: Lavish is the word.

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

Rónán Mullen: I am surprised by the personalised approach taken by Senators Ward, Flynn and, to a lesser but somewhat existent extent, Sherlock to attacking our concerns.Those of us who have concerns about this Bill have set them out very carefully. The difference between Senator Ward and me is that I acknowledged the point of view that the other side had. I expressed, for example, why I could see the...

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

Rónán Mullen: I am just looking at him; I am speaking to the Acting Chair. He is a beauty to behold, no more than myself. I accept the argument but my point is simply this: on balance, it is dangerous to go tiering victims and it is best left to courts to make rulings in sentencing having regard to all of the circumstances in the case of an offence, including a hatred motivation. I should be allowed to...

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

Rónán Mullen: I will simply reply by saying that I am responding to particular things that Senator Ward chose to say.

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

Rónán Mullen: If he chose to say them and it was in order, then it is in order for me to reply at this point. I will conclude by saying that everything that is being proposed here today leaves open the possibility that people will be protected against crimes based on hateful motivation. I will put it to the Senators again - we are here in this House as politicians - that if someone is attacked because...