Former minister for justice Charlie Flanagan has called for the ditching of the proposed hate speech Bill. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
The proposed legislation, which also covers hate crime, stalled in the Seanad last summer amid concerns about its scope and impact on freedom of speech. The Laois-Offaly TD said on Monday that the hate speech legislation is “proving very controversial”, and that one of the reasons for this is an “absence of definitions”.
Mr Flanagan is not the only former Fine Gael Cabinet minister to suggest the hate speech legislation should go.
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