Justice Minister to ‘address’ concerns over hate speech laws

The Justice Minister said she will look at how she can address some concerns about hate speech legislation, but said there has been a lot of “misinformation” about the Bill.

Former justice minister Charlie Flanagan said it should be “brought back to the drawing board”, while Fine Gael TD Michael Ring called for the Government to abandon the Bill. “Judicial activism not a good basis of law-making. Fundamental role of legislature is to make clearly understood laws. Courts then apply these laws,” he said on social media platform, X.

Ms McEntee said: “Our party and our government has always been a broad church of views and ideas. I think there’s a lot of misinformation. I think people think what’s being talked about is criminalising people’s opinions, which is not the case here. “This idea that people’s opinions are going to be criminalised, it’s not true. It hasn’t transpired in other countries,” she told RTE Morning Ireland.

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