Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2024-05-23
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

These are issues I hope the Joint Committee on Justice will be able to engage with. I do not think that any of us wants to see canvassing outlawed and this might have been one of the unintended consequences in relation to approaching a residence with the intention of influencing a person. Canvassing is probably one of the greatest protections we have, indeed, against the kind of misinformation and hate we have seen driving many of these totally inappropriate protests.

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Sitting date: 2024-05-23