> The government has repeatedly pointed to existing legislation that criminalises the incitement to hatred and hate speech, under the Prohibition of Incitement

> The government has repeatedly pointed to existing legislation that criminalises the incitement to hatred and hate speech, under the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989. In 2017, the Irish Courts Service said just five people were convicted under the law. Are the implying Ireland needs to boost up those conviction numbers? With only 5 convicted, someone is clearly not doing their job. I am getting a faint whiff of a conviction quota. Comrades Stalin and Yezhov would be proud Let us take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_Order_No._00447 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_Order_No._00447 > By the autumn of 1937, the pressure to achieve arrests was so great that the NKVD interrogators began picking out names from the telephone directory or preselecting married men with children who, as every agent knew, were the quickest to confess Can't they just pick out some random names from Facebook and convict them, I am sure they are guilty of something /s