Today saw the long-awaited release of the General Scheme of Minister McEntee’s new Hate Crime Bill. The bill will introduce several aggravated offences which will increase penalties for crimes “motivated by prejudice.” Assuming, of course, that those offences are targeted at those with “protected characteristics.” Race; colour; nationality; religion, ethnic or national origin; sexual orientation; […]
Fine Gael’s radical climate bill will see you pay more for fuel, more for heat, more for services, more for cars #gript References “This bill seeks to totally ban the sale of fossil fuel cars in Ireland by the year 2030. It also includes the adoption of a five-yearly carbon budgets, which […]
New legislation will seek to introduce a common sense approach to accidents in the school yard, addressing concerns that schools are being compelled to introduce a “no-running” policy because of fears of litigation. Independent NUI Senator Rónán Mullen is introducing the bill to give legal reassurance to schools and teachers assisting after schoolyard accidents. The […]
On Thursday 24 October, the Government formally signalled its intention to introduce draconian hate speech legislation in Ireland. As was the case with many people, I felt a sudden alarm that our fundamental inalienable human right to articulate opinions and ideas was going to be removed, so I took to Twitter to ask people if […]