Results 21-40 of 242 for blasphemy
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (17 Jun 2015) See 1 other result from this answer
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will be aware that the Government agreed last September to hold a referendum on removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution, in response to the 6th Report of the Convention on the Constitution. The work necessary to prepare a Referendum Bill and a Bill to amend the current legislative provision for the offence of blasphemy is ongoing in my Department. An appropriate...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011) See 1 other result from this debate
Ivana Bacik: ...may have available to us and it would be appropriate to have a debate on religion in public life. We need look no further than the dreadful situation in Pakistan, where we have seen the offence of blasphemy used to persecute an unfortunate, semi-literate woman and mother from an impoverished village. She has been prosecuted for blasphemy and the prosecution has already led to the...
- Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (5 Nov 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to be here with the Deputies to present the Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019, which gives effect to the outcome of a referendum to amend the Constitution. Deputies will recall that until late last year, Article 40.6.1°i of the Constitution specified that the publication or utterance of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)
Ivana Bacik: There is an absolutely clear need to repeal the provision in the Defamation Act 2009 which introduced the new statutory offence of blasphemy and then to have a constitutional referendum to remove blasphemy from the Constitution.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Referendum Campaigns (20 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this answer
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will be aware that the Government agreed last September to hold a referendum on removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution, in response to the 6th Report of the Convention on the Constitution. The work necessary to prepare a Referendum Bill and a Bill to amend the current legislative provision for the offence of blasphemy is ongoing in my Department. An appropriate...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (27 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this answer
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will be aware that the Government agreed last September to hold a referendum on removing the offence of blasphemy contained in Article 40.6.1.1 of the Constitution, in response to the 6th Report of the Convention on the Constitution. The work necessary to prepare a Referendum Bill and a Bill to amend the current legislative provision for the offence of blasphemy is ongoing in my...
- Human Rights Issues (7 Mar 2012) See 5 other results from this debate
Joan Burton: ...UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council, as appropriate. The Government remains concerned about the case of Mrs. Asia Bibi. In November 2010 a Punjabi court found Mrs. Bibi guilty of blasphemy and sentenced her to death by hanging. This is the first time a woman has been sentenced to death in Pakistan under its blasphemy law. When the case came to the attention of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Referendum Campaigns (17 Feb 2015) See 1 other result from this answer
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will be aware that the Government agreed last September to hold a referendum on removing the offence of blasphemy contained in Article 40.6.1.1 of the Constitution, in response to the 6th Report of the Convention on the Constitution. The Government's response was presented in the Dáil on 2nd October 2014. The work necessary to prepare a Referendum Bill and a Bill to amend...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (9 Jun 2011) See 1 other result from this answer
Eamon Gilmore: I am gravely concerned about the case of Mrs. Asia Bibi. In November 2010, Mrs. Bibi was sentenced to death by hanging in a Punjab court for blasphemy. I understand that this is the first time a woman has been sentenced to death in Pakistan under its blasphemy law. When reports of the case came to the attention of my Department, a senior official contacted the Embassy of Pakistan to...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (12 Feb 2015) See 1 other result from this answer
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will be aware that the Government agreed last September to hold a referendum on removing the offence of blasphemy contained in Article 40.6.1.1 of the Constitution, in response to the 6th Report of the Convention on the Constitution. The Government's response was presented in the Dáil on 2nd October 2014. The work necessary to prepare a Referendum Bill and a Bill to amend...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009) See 1 other result from this debate
Ivana Bacik: Fr. Russell might be at risk of being found guilty of blasphemy since he is being critical, grossly abusive or insulting to people of a religion who seem to want to worship a tree. We should be mindful of the danger of introducing an offence like blasphemy in light of the sort of events that we are seeing in Rathkeale in Limerick.
- Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019) See 1 other result from this debate
Brian Stanley: Sinn Féin fully supports the Bill. We supported the "Yes" vote in the referendum on this issue last October. The inclusion of blasphemy in the Constitution has become outdated. It was an undue restriction on freedom of speech. It is outdated that blasphemy be an offence which is punishable by law. Freedom of speech is a central tenet of republicanism and is valued by all. The...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (2 Nov 2011)
Eamon Gilmore: I am gravely concerned about the case of Mrs. Asia Bibi. In November 2010 a Punjab court found Mrs. Bibi guilty of blasphemy, sentencing her to death by hanging. I understand that this is the first time a woman has been sentenced to death in Pakistan under its blasphemy law. My information is that Mrs. Bibi's case is to be the subject of an appeal to the High Court in Punjab. Her detention...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (13 Nov 2018)
Seán Crowe: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in Pakistan accused of blasphemy and convicted of the offence under Pakistan's blasphemy law and sentenced to death; and if will he raise the person's case with his Pakistani counterpart and request that the person is freed and removed from the exit control list....
- Constitutional Amendments. (19 May 2009) See 1 other result from this debate
Joan Burton: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about this strange proposal to introduce legislation on blasphemy and the view of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the Constitution. Has the Taoiseach taken any soundings of public reaction, including that of various faith communities, who are hard put to understand why the country will now be faced with an offence of blasphemy in a way that...
- Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008) See 3 other results from this debate
Brian Lenihan Jnr: ...seeing whether we need to go beyond that in the penalty clause. There are difficult issues with a referendum. The House of Lords is currently examining in the legislative context the question of blasphemy and its possible abolition. In England and Wales blasphemy traditionally only consisted in the scandalising of the established church. It is probably the case in Ireland, with the...
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (3 May 2012) See 1 other result from this answer
Eamon Gilmore: The Government remains concerned about the case of Mrs. Asia Bibi. In November 2010 a Punjab court found Mrs. Bibi guilty of blasphemy, sentencing her to death by hanging. This is the first time that a woman has been sentenced to death in Pakistan under its blasphemy law. When the case came to the attention of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ambassador accredited to...
- Constitutional Reform (12 May 2010)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On constitutional matters and on a further matter, will the Government act on the recommendation of the Joint Committee on the Constitution to remove the reference to blasphemy in the Constitution? Does the Taoiseach agree with the committee when it stated in the 2008 report on the freedom of expression that in a modern constitution blasphemy is not a phenomenon against which there should be...
- Topical Issue Debate: Human Rights Issues (16 Jul 2015) See 1 other result from this debate
Joanna Tuffy: ...Asia Bibi on a number of occasions, including last November when he visited Islamabad. If there is an opportunity to do this again will he raise the issue again, as well as the broader case of the blasphemy laws? I understand there was a proposal from the Pakistan Government for a new law to target false accusations of blasphemy because there have been reports that accusations have been...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)
David Norris: I agree completely with the previous speaker who raises a very important issue. I wish to raise another important issue for this country, that of blasphemy. I ask the Leader to arrange for a debate on this issue, to include a discussion on whether the Government will consider holding a referendum, if necessary, which could be tagged on to one of the other referenda that will be held. The...