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- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Éamon Ó Cuív: ...legislation, the criminal penalty relating to an offence under the Constitution. I will give two examples of this. Article 40.6.1 of the Constitution requires a criminal penalty in accordance with the law of blasphemy but the Defamation Act 2009 requires only a fine, not a prison term, for that offence. The Minister for Justice and Equality at the time that legislation was introduced,...