Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2026-05-20
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Jim O'Callaghan (FF), Dublin Bay South

As I said, it is already an offence. If individuals involved in armed forces are engaged in war crimes or crimes against humanity, there is a consequence to that down the road. In terms of the enforcement of this, all we in Ireland can do is set out in our legislation what we believe should be the appropriate standard of international law applied domestically. We have done that. We criminalised genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Interestingly and importantly, we will also criminalise the crime of aggression. Let us look at what is happening in Ukraine. The purpose of that could be that it could apply in situations like that. When it comes to our status as a country that complies with our international obligations when it comes to wrongdoing, crimes against humanity and war crimes by other states, we comply with that but this is not the instrument in which to insert the Deputy's amendments. For that reason, I must oppose amendment No. 1.

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