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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, management of the courts is the responsibility of the Courts Service, which is independent in exercising its functions, and this includes information relating to convictions. I have had enquiries made of the Courts Service and they have provided the information requested on convictions in the table below. It...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: Under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, management of the courts, including the provision of accommodation for court sittings, is the responsibility of the Courts Service which is independent in exercising its functions. However, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have had enquiries regarding the former courthouse at Boghall Road, Bray made and the Courts Service has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Regulations (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, Ireland is not participating in the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) which is being established by means of an enhanced cooperation procedure provided for under Article 86 of Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The Member States participating in this procedure adopted the EPPO Regulation 2017/1939 in October 2017. Ireland retains...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: The Deputy will appreciate that the Garda Commissioner is responsible for managing and controlling generally the administration and business of An Garda Síochána, and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. I have requested information from the Garda Commissioner in relation to this matter and will write to the Deputy directly with the information requested, when it is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: I wish to assure the Deputy that the Government is fully committed to enacting the Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018 as soon as possible. The importance the Government attaches to this legislation is reflected in our commitment to enact it in the current Programme for Government Committee Stage had been scheduled for 22 January 2020, but as the Deputy will be aware, the Bill lapsed...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: I will add to what the Chairman and Deputy Howlin have outlined. I look forward to a speedy passage of this Bill and the support of all committee members and the Dáil and Seanad. I thank Deputy Howlin for the huge volume of work he has done on this issue and I agree with him that while the stylistic approach might be different, the intention is exactly the same. To be clear, the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: I will comment on amendments Nos. 1 and 2 initially. I do not believe that such a change is necessary or required because the Title, that is, Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill, encompasses most of what the Bill tries to do. Sometimes, if one gets too prescriptive, one does not widen the base but narrows it. Given the fact that this legislation is specific to...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: I understand know how sensitive an issue this is. I sincerely want to extend my sympathies to Nicole's family and to her mum, in particular, who, as the Deputy said, has campaigned for this tirelessly on the basis of what happened to her beautiful daughter. Unfortunately, having taken advice from the Attorney General on this, and for the many reasons the Deputy has alluded to, there are...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: I do not see why not. As I said, in terms of how this is presented, it is clear for many people where this is coming from, the intention behind it and the personal work that has been done over the past number of years. To reflect that is reasonable whether it is going through the House or in the commentary afterwards and as it is being enacted. Perhaps, therefore, there is a way we could...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “2. In this Act— “broadcast” has the meaning assigned to it by the Broadcasting Act 2009; “distribute” means distribute to the public or a section of the public; “intimate image”, in relation to a person, means any visual representation (including...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: That is covered under that section.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: It should do so. I will get absolute clarity on that for the Deputy but it does.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: My understanding is that it does not need to be specified because once one has the image, whether it is being kept or stored or not or whether it is being sent on, the offence has been created. It does not need to be defined in that sense because it is already there on the device.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: The section that is proposed to be inserted covers that by mentioning "any... digital representation" so any type of altering of images where there is a different head on a different body or any type of amendment to what was a real image suggesting that it is somebody else. It is covered within the definitions section.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: There is already precedent that where something is a criminal offence there is a legal requirement on the company to remove it. The fact that a lot of what we are talking about is not a criminal offence is where the problem lies but there is already an EU regulation from 2011 which clearly sets out a legal requirement for any of the platforms to remove what is illegal content.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: No. It is dealt with elsewhere in other legislation.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: This will be specifically dealt with in the online safety and media regulation Bill that the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin, is bringing forward. The onus is there when something is illegal and is brought to the attention of the authorities. My understanding is that even without a code of conduct, the social media platforms ask their...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: Yes.