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Version status: Amended
Version date: 23 October 2024 - onwards
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Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Bill 2022 (enacted 29 October 2024)

Enacted Bill, signed into law by the President on the 29th October 2024.
This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 1 November 2022 by Dáil Éireann
Introduction of this Bill

Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to the prohibition of incitement to violence or hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of certain characteristics (referred to as protected characteristics) of the person or the group of persons and to provide for an offence of condoning, denying or grossly trivialising genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace and, in doing so, to give effect to Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA of 28 November 2008 on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law; to provide for certain offences aggravated by hatred in the Criminal Damage Act 1991, the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 and the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997; for those purposes, to provide for amendments of those and other enactments and to repeal the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989; to provide in respect of other offences for hatred against a person or a group of persons on account of certain characteristics (referred to as protected characteristics) of the person or the group of persons to be an aggravating factor in sentencing for those offences; and to provide for related matters.

Sponsor
Minister for Justice
Source
Government
Originating House
Dáil Éireann
History of this Bill
Date Stage House Document Link
23 October 2024 5 Seanad Éireann Debates From the Seanad
23 October 2024 5 Seanad Éireann Bills As Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas
22 October 2024 3 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Cream List [Seanad amendments to Dáil Bill]
17 October 2024 3 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Cream List [Seanad amendments to Dáil Bill]
16 October 2024 3 Seanad Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Seanad]
21 June 2023 2 Seanad Éireann Debates Second Stage (Resumed)
13 June 2023 2 Seanad Éireann Debates Second Stage
26 April 2023 4 Dáil Éireann Bills As passed by Dáil Éireann
25 April 2023 4 Dáil Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Dáil]
21 February 2023 3 Dáil Éireann Bills As amended in Committee/Select Committee (Dáil Eireann)
20 February 2023 3 Dáil Éireann Bill amendments Numbered List [Dáil]
16 November 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Debates Referral to Select Committee
16 November 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Debates Second Stage (Resumed)
10 November 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Debates Second Stage (Resumed)
10 November 2022 2 Dáil Éireann Debates Second Stage
1 November 2022 1 Dáil Éireann Explanatory memoranda Explanatory Memorandum
1 November 2022 1 Dáil Éireann Bills As initiated
This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 1 November 2022 by Dáil Éireann