Results 121-140 of 253 for blasphemy
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (18 Feb 2015) See 1 other result from this debate Peadar Tóibín: .... This examined voting rights for citizens living abroad, amending the clause on the role of women in the home, substantial Dáil reform, amending the current Dáil electoral form, the removal of blasphemy from the Constitution, reducing the voting age and amending the Constitution to strengthen the protection of economic, social and cultural rights. This work has not been...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (2 Dec 2014)
Charles Flanagan: ...Ministry representative and raised this case, noting that it is a matter of grave concern in Ireland.Officials in my Department have also recently raised this case, and our concerns regarding the blasphemy laws and persecution of Christians generally, with the Embassy of Pakistan. Freedom of religion or belief and freedom of opinion and expression play a central role in the EU’s...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)
David Norris: This is the central mystery and tenet of the Christian religion. It is not only Roman Catholics who are offended, I am offended. It is blasphemous, but there should not be criminal laws for blasphemy. However, one should express the fact that young people are being demeaned for commercial purposes. The Islamic faith regards Jesus Christ as one of the principal prophets, and to mock the...
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...House was told earlier this week that there would be an item to deal with this on the business for next week. In fact, the Whips have now been told that will not happen, albeit that the report on blasphemy is ready. My real question is about the fact that the Government set a series of timeframes for the Constitutional Convention itself to do its work and the convention adhered to that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)
Dr. Des Hogan: We were recently asked by the Department of Justice and Equality to provide some observations on the recommendation on blasphemy from the Constitutional Convention. Our response was that as a first step, the Prohibition of the Incitement to Hatred Act needs to be urgently reviewed, including the number of prosecutions taken under that, questions of evidential burden and...
- Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (21 Mar 2003)
...against them by these evil people in pursuit of money? Mr. Bush has the effrontery to make these speeches in front of a neon cross. I am a Christian, too, and he does not speak in my name. It is a blasphemy for him to do so. Let him read the Bible. I know he was previously more acquainted with the bottle than the Bible to which he might turn his attention and think of a few phrases such as...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)
Leo Varadkar: ...which we have given an indicative schedule for are those which will actually make a difference to people's lives. It may be a minor difference in some cases, for example, ending the prohibition on blasphemy. In other cases the difference could be very significant, such as allowing people to get divorced more quickly. I do not see how this water referendum would make a blind bit of...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (9 Feb 2012)
Alan Shatter: ...literary, artistic, political, scientific, or academic value in the matter to which the offence relates. The Constitutional Convention that is proposed in the Programme for Government will include blasphemy in its review.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (24 Nov 2020)
Helen McEntee: ...to waiver pre-legislative scrutiny on five pieces of legislation since 2017. Waivers were granted on 14 June 2018 for the General Scheme of the 37th Amendment of the Constitution (Removal of Blasphemy) Bill 2018 and on 17 January 2019 for the General Scheme of the Repeal of Offence of Publication or Utterance of Blasphemous Matter Bill 2019. These were granted because the Bills in...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2019)
Ivana Bacik: ...Doherty, and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, on improvements to processes. I seek that debate as a matter of urgency. Yesterday during our very stimulating debate on the Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill, Senator Ned O'Sullivan pointed out the need for legislation on hate crime. A number of us have been pressing for that for some time....
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (17 May 2016)
Enda Kenny: ...Women in Politics, on 10 October 2013, - to the Third Report, on Same Sex Marriage, on 17 December 2013, - to the Fourth Report, on Electoral Reform, on 18 December 2014, - to the Sixth Report, on Blasphemy, on 2 October 2014, and - to the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Reports, on amending the Constitution to give citizens resident outside the State the right to vote in...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: ...on the Constitution took place. Matters considered by the 2013-2014 Convention on the Constitution were: - Reducing the voting age and Presidential term - The role of women in Politics - Same sex marriage - Electoral reform - Blasphemy - Granting citizens resident outside the State the right to vote in Presidential elections; Dáil Reform; Economic,Social and Cultural rights. The...
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Eaglais agus an Stát a Imdheighilt) 2017: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Separation of Church and State) Bill 2017: First Stage (13 Jul 2017)
Mick Barry: ...enacted the Constitution. Throughout the document there are religious oaths of office, references to the idea that all power derives from God and an obligation on the Oireachtas to legislate for the crime of blasphemy. The Constitution also states that homage and public worship "is due to Almighty God". Some may say this is just a historical relic from the 1930s and has no real effect...
- Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (2 Dec 2008)
Micheál Martin: ...the Pakistani authorities. The situation of minorities was among the issues raised at the last demarche, which took place in June 2007. The EU expressed its continued concerns over abuses of the blasphemy laws, which are often used to harass members of minority communities as well as Muslims. Issues relating to applications for asylum and citizenship are the responsibility of the...
- Programme for Government (25 May 2011)
Enda Kenny: ...to five years; provision for same sex marriage; to broaden the reference in the Constitution to the role of women in the home to one which recognises the role of the parent in the home; removing blasphemy from the Constitution; the possible reduction of the voting age; and other relevant constitutional amendments that may be recommended by the convention. Work has commenced on the...
- 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,...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 Jan 2024)
Micheál Martin: .... EU representatives raised this issue at the Human Rights Council last October and called on the Pakistani authorities to bring the perpetrators of such acts to justice, as well as to reform the blasphemy laws and take all necessary steps to stop their abuse and guarantee the protection of all minorities. In January 2023, Ireland made an intervention during Pakistan’s Universal...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 Jan 2024)
Micheál Martin: .... EU representatives raised this issue at the Human Rights Council last October and called on the Pakistani authorities to bring the perpetrators of such acts to justice, as well as to reform the blasphemy laws and take all necessary steps to stop their abuse and guarantee the protection of all minorities. In January 2023, Ireland made an intervention during Pakistan’s Universal...
- Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (3 Dec 2014)
Ivana Bacik: ...Act, but I will conclude by saying that the most pressing issue in the Defamation Act of 2009 which requires review, is section 36, which, as everyone knows, created a new statutory offence of blasphemy. In this House, myself and Senator Norris in particular were very critical of that Bill. It was introduced by then Minister, Dermot Ahern, as a late amendment. Nobody was quite sure why,...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2019)
Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 91, motion 7, regarding a vacancy in the membership of Seanad Éireann, to be taken without debate on the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 1, Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Bill 2019 – Order for Second Stage and Second and Subsequent Stages, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to adjourn not later than 2 p.m., if not previously...