Protection of Private Residencies (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2024-05-23
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Micheál Carrigy (FG), Industrial and Commercial Panel

I thank the Acting Chair for allowing me to speak. I support this legislation brought forward by Senator Malcolm Byrne. I have been through the judicial system because of threats on social media. I have also had people at my family home while I was putting my children to bed, and these were people from a political party represented in these Houses. We want to keep people in public life. We want people to be able to put themselves forward for public life. We want to know our family homes will be protected while we are away. I fully support, therefore, whatever we can do to strengthen such protections.
All political parties and groupings in the Houses need to sign up to a charter to state their members will desist from targeting the family homes of other people in public life. This is important.

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Sitting date: 2024-05-23