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

I move amendment No. 10:
In page 7, to delete line 7 and substitute the following:
“(II) an offence under subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 6,”.
This is a technical amendment that refers to the offence of travel for the purpose of terrorism. The precise requirement this amendment is dealing with is the provision for the offence of travelling from the State to another state for the purpose of participating in the activities of a terrorist group. In the Bill as it stands, when providing for this requirement section 4D refers to travelling from the State for the purposes of committing an offence under section 21 or section 21A of the 1939 Act. This is because participation in the activities of a terrorist group is criminalised under Irish law via section 21 or section 21A of the Offences Against the State Act 1939. These make it an offence to be a member of, or provide assistance to, an unlawful organisation. Section 5 of the principal Act designates terrorist groups as unlawful organisations. However, the 1939 Act criminalises those acts only when committed in the State. When they are committed outside the State they are criminalised via section 6(1)(b)(i) of the principal Act. Given the specific requirement to make it an offence to travel outside the State for the purposes of carrying out those acts and, as such, those acts would be committed outside the State, the reference should be travelling for the purposes of committing an offence under section 6(1)(b)(i) of the principal Act, so it is a very technical amendment.

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