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

I move amendment No. 21:
In page 10, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:
“(c) the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5):
“(5A) For the avoidance of doubt, criticism of a state that is breaching international law shall not be constitute grounds for inferring that the person is doing an act with the intention of—
(a) seriously intimidating a population,
(b) unduly compelling a government or an international organisation to perform or abstain from performing an act, or
(c) seriously destabilising or destroying the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a state or an international organisation.”,”.

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