Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2024-10-17
============================================================

Lisa Chambers (FF), Cultural and Educational Panel

I move:
That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for an offence for the action commonly known as catfishing and for that purpose to provide for the identification of such an offence; to amend and extend the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 and to provide for consequential amendments to the Broadcasting Act 2009; and to provide for related matters.

Mark Daly (CC), Administrative Panel

When is it proposed to take Second Stage?

Lisa Chambers (FF), Cultural and Educational Panel

Next Tuesday.

Mark Daly (CC), Administrative Panel

Is that agreed? Agreed.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2024-10-17/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:53:23+00:00
Sitting date: 2024-10-17