Criminal Law, Civil Law and Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2026: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2026-06-10
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Gary Gannon (SD), Dublin Central

I did not intend to come back in but the Minister said something I profoundly disagree with. On the idea of having the cut-off at 1922 because the State should not be responsible for what happened when it was a colony, the Minister began his contributions earlier on by talking about how he inherited this system from the UK. It is not like we radically transformed the system right afterwards. What we did was maintain it, enforce it and became part of it. The idea might be that we must have a cut-off time because we cannot be responsible for what happened when we were a colony, but we did not deviate from it one iota when we were not. In regard to how we treated people, the Minister said that we inherited the system-----

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Sitting date: 2026-06-10