Results 221-240 of 253 for blasphemy

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...condemning the actions of Israel and Egypt in blocking humanitarian relief getting through to Gaza. I urge the Leader to arrange for the adoption of such a motion. On a day that we will debate the blasphemy laws, it is nice to be able to agree for once, which I rarely do, with a Catholic priest, Fr. Willie Russell, who I note from an article on the front page of The Irish Times, is the...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2009) See 46 other results from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...made by the Dáil providing for a review of the Act. Given the level of controversy about the content of the Bill, particularly the insertion of amendments Nos. 29 and 30 that cover the offence of blasphemy, it is important if that offence is to be provided for - something I will oppose - that the legislation should be reviewed. There is no need to insert those provisions into the Bill.

Order of Business (8 Jul 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Eamon Gilmore: ...Stage in the Dáil on 14 May 2008 and the Government took nine months to bring it before the committee. It was not until the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform discovered the issue of blasphemy as a possible political issue that he showed any great urgency in completing the legislation, on the core principles of which there has been general political agreement. Now, he wants...

Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Eugene Regan: ...situation. It is very regrettable. There is a necessity for the Minister to rethink this. There is a legal and constitutional obligation on him. This is the same Minister who insists on having a blasphemy offence because it is required by the Constitution. Here, a High Court judge, in a judgment which is not being appealed, has set out in express terms the constitutional problems with...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

David Norris: ...of very loose definitions. I am astonished by the behaviour of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern, in the other House. He has agreed to cut the fines for the blasphemy sections of the law from €100,000 to €25,000, and said yesterday in the Dáil that the draft of the legislation on blasphemy has been deliberately drawn up to make it virtually...

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2009)

Joe O'Toole: ...taste or decency" is being replaced by "causing harm or offence", which change is very welcome, I would hate to be the judge of what causes offence. The question is like that which arose in the blasphemy debate. On Second Stage and Committee Stage, I felt content that causing offence must be calculated to incite hatred. Causing offence is very much a passive process. While I agree that...

Order of Business (25 Jun 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Charles Flanagan: ..., Equality and Law Reform, and explain that the only contentious issue in the Defamation Bill, the only hurdle to be surmounted, is the Minister's personal crusade to introduce a new crime of blasphemy.

Seanad: Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements (27 May 2009) See 2 other results from this debate

David Norris: ...and former mayor of Clonmel said he was beaten and raped, and the next day had the sacred host placed in his mouth by the people who had done this to him. We spoke a little in the House about blasphemy. I would like to know, is that not blasphemy? How can such people describe themselves as Christian Brothers? Do not talk to me about our culpability, our shame or our responsibility. I...

Order of Business (26 May 2009)

Joan Burton: It seems we are to have a blasphemy law in this country, which nobody wants, before we deal with this issue. This is very important to the people who lived through this episode and are still alive, and their children.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2009) See 2 other results from this debate

David Norris: ...and Law Reform. The authority will have no independence and no credibility. I call for a debate on the issue, as proposed in motion No. 21 on the Order Paper. I wish to refer to the law on blasphemy, an issue that has been raised several times in the House. Today, a senior member of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE, Mr. Miklos Haraszti, said that in...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2009)

Pat Rabbitte: ...forum today on the Defamation Bill during which he told us how hard put upon he was and all the terrible things that are being said about him now that he wants to reintroduce the offence of blasphemy. He said that he is regarded as a fundamentalist Catholic, an extreme right-winger, looking for votes, courting the Islamic community and all this. I never said any of those things about him.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (20 May 2009) See 2 other results from this debate

Denis O'Donovan: As a member of the All-Party Committee on the Constitution I have mixed feelings on the blasphemy issue. The Minister is unfortunately in a dilemma. He can either ignore it and leave the 1961 Act as it stands, seek a constitutional referendum which could be divisive and difficult, or legislate for it. I have sympathy for him. The issue was highlighted in Corway v. Independent Newspapers...

Constitutional Amendments. (19 May 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Enda Kenny: ...with law." The Taoiseach will be aware that the Defamation Act 1961 provided that "every person who composes, prints or publishes any blasphemous or obscene libel" is guilty of such an offence. Blasphemy is not defined in the Constitution nor is it defined in any Act of the Oireachtas. It is impossible to say what the offence consists of. State-sponsored bodies have made their position...

Order of Business (13 May 2009)

Charles Flanagan: ...yesterday. Has it approved such legislation? When will it be published and enacted? Is the Taoiseach prepared to give the details of the legislation the Minister described? A new crime of blasphemy has been reached on Committee Stage but to date has not been defined in law. The House did not debate the matter on Second Stage because it was a new measure in the form of an amendment...

Written Answers — Constitutional Amendments: Constitutional Amendments (7 May 2009) See 1 other result from this answer

Deirdre Clune: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on a constitutional referendum to amend Article 40.6.1 of the Constitution to remove the reference to blasphemy in that provision of the Constitution; the effect such a change or the lack of such a change would have on the constitutional protection of freedom of speech; and if he will make a statement on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Dan Boyle: ...Cabinet decision in 2005. I am also informed, being a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Constitution, that the issue was examined recently. It was proposed to leave the reference to blasphemy in the Constitution but to suggest that it is impossible to legislate for it.

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (28 Apr 2009) See 1 other result from this answer

Ruairi Quinn: Question 311: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised with the Ambassador of Pakistan the issue of blasphemy laws which curtail freedom of speech within Pakistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16775/09]

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...

Seanad: Middle East Conflict: Motion (26 Feb 2009)

David Norris: ...Ezra Yitzhak Nawi, Professor Siegman and the wonderfully courageous eight or ten Jewish Irish citizens who spoke out in the columns of The Irish Times against this because what is happening is a blasphemy against the ethos of Judaism, including the toast one makes to health and to life, L'Chaim, and to the idea that whoever saves one human life saves the universe and whoever kills one...

Seanad: Middle East: Statements (18 Feb 2009)

David Norris: ...the state of Israel which gives preferential treatment to the export of their goods. Human rights protocols are attached to that which are not even monitored. What is the point of them? It is a blasphemy against the concept of human rights to have them there on paper while at the beginning of his speech the Minister of State makes clear that he believes there is a prima facie case that...

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