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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The reference to "prepares or possesses material" may need to be amended.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The question is how one can prove, in such a situation, that there is no intention to publish the material. There is a danger of criminalising people's ideas and thoughts before any action has been taken by them.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: No.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: No. I thank the Chairman.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 49: In page 11, line 31, after "characteristic" to insert the following: ", in this respect, particular regard must be had to the importance of the right to freedom of expression by virtue of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, including the general principle that the right applies to the expression of information or ideas that offend, shock or disturb".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 55: In page 15, to delete lines 33 to 36, and in page 16, to delete lines 1 to 4. The proposed deletion of these lines would be appropriate because if we leave them in, it could result in legislative overreach. For example, if somebody robs a shop - that person should not rob a shop and certainly should not be violent about it - he or she might use sexist language to...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I had not prepared for that, sorry.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I said I had not prepared to speak to amendment No. 70, but I wish to withdraw it on the basis of pressing it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 61: In page 17, to delete lines 16 to 23.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 70: In page 19, to delete lines 32 to 35, and in page 20, to delete lines 1 to 4.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 96: In page 30, after line 4, to insert the following: “Review of Act 37.The Minister shall, not later than 1 year after the commencement of this Act, carry out a review of the Act.”.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 93, 100, 107, and 108 of 15 December 2022 in relation to the regulation of district heating schemes and prices paid by residents, if the commercial tariff he mentioned is the reason that residents of DHS have faced such enormous rises in their energy bills; if this tariff is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the passing of SI. 350/2022, and the new role the Commission of Regulation of Utilities in regulating district heating systems, will mean that the current commercial tariff levied on residents of such systems will be removed and a standard residential rate tariff applied instead; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the commercial tariff applied to district heating systems; and the current standard residential tariff that is applied to gas users. [8392/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a homeowner (details supplied), whose property is rented to a local authority with a HAP tenant and who now wishes to sell the property and is willing to sell to the local authority concerned, has been told that the council cannot purchase the home; if this is in contradiction to the Government’s stated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of women currently receiving State pension (contributory) but whose years out of the workforce as a homemaker prior to 1994 are not disregarded when working out the yearly average contributions for the pension. [8088/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated number of affected persons who, due to their years as a homemaker prior to 1994, have not qualified for a State pension (contributory). [8089/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (21 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her proposals to remedy the discrimination suffered by homemakers whose time out of the workforce prior to 1994 is not taken into account, and who have not qualified for a State pension (contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8090/23]

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: If we did not have a housing crisis-----

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: A long way to go.