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

Different legal systems, but I am saying, as the Minister described, they are cases of substantial criminal damage that are being done with an intention of compelling a government not to take an action, which is trying to compel governments not to allow arms to be used in a context of genocide. How does that not fit the kind of language the Minister is setting out here? Is there not a risk of that in that regard? I am not asking whether they should be prosecuted or whether these are offences. If they are being labelled and prosecuted as terrorist offences, which they are in the UK and another European state at the moment, that is the concern I have.

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