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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...

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. 11: In page 7, between lines 32 and 33, 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 4F. For the purposes of this Part, recruitment for purpose of serving in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide means the...

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. 12: In page 7, between lines 32 and 33, 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 4F. For the purposes of this Part, a person travels for the purpose of serving in the armed forces of a state engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide if he...

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. 13: In page 7, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “Organising or facilitating travel for purpose of participation in the armed forces of another state which is engaged in genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes 4F. For the purposes of this Part, a person organises or facilitates travel for the purpose of participation in the armed...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (8 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 345. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of increasing the Garda training allowance to €579.15 per week for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37368/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 645. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated annual cost of recruiting 500, 1,000 and 1,500 gardaí; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37438/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 667. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total spent by his Department on accommodation for international protection applicants in each of the past five years; the average cost per night of accommodating an international protection applicant in private accommodation and State-owned accommodation in each of the past five years; the highest rate and lowest rate...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 668. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of staff in the International Protection Office and International Protection Appeals Tribunal; if his Department has any plans to increase the number of staff in each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 669. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of increasing the number of staff in the International Protection Office and International Protection Appeals Tribunal by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37750/25]

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: We are being asked to debate three distinct motions as part of one debate to facilitate an early opt-in to proposed EU regulations. Until yesterday afternoon, we were due to be dealing with four motions. The withdrawal of the motion on the returns regulation reinforces everything Sinn Féin has been saying, and which I will address here, about why we should not opt-in to these...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: Major research conducted jointly by Dublin City University and Ulster University published this morning highlights how the reunification of Ireland is a huge opportunity for us all. It finds that the costs of unity would be far lower than had previously been put forward by opponents of Irish unity. In my view the research has delivered a fatal blow to any economic arguments that might have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Minister's Government is all over the place on student fees. We have had the Minister for higher education, Deputy Lawless, clearly state on Sunday that without a cost-of-living package in the budget, college fees will go up by €1,000 in September. His position was then backed-up by the Taoiseach. Let us clear up this mess today. I have just one simple question for the Minister...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: One question. One answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for higher education, the Minister for public expenditure and now the Minister for Finance cannot answer the simplest question that will have a life-defining impact on many students who are having conversations today, which will impact the rest of their lives, on whether they can travel to university or college or whether they must find somewhere...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: Answer the question please, Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: Answer the question. What is your solution?