Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2026-06-30
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

Let us not use the graffiti example. Let us use the examples that are in the courts at the moment in the UK and Germany, which relate to damage to a weapons system. If somebody damages a weapons system that is about to be used in violation of international law for the performance of war crimes, they may well be prosecuted because they have damaged property. Should they be labelled as terrorists because they have tried to take action to compel a state not to bomb and not to deliver arms? In the real world those are the two big cases in the news. One of them is the Filton 4 case. Those are the examples, the ones that are happening now.

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