The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has called on the Minister for Justice to explain why he used executive powers to exclude a controversial US pastor from visiting Ireland
The pastor, from Arizona in the United States, had planned to host a preaching event at an unknown location in Dublin on 26 May.
"The law requires that a decision of this type must be necessary and must be in furtherance of public policy," he said. He said there is a wider question about what we and what this individual or his organisation are trying to achieve. Mr Herrick said that there are weaknesses in other areas of our laws that would probably be a more effective and appropriate way to deal with these issues.
LGBT Ireland is one of the groups involved in setting up a petition to call for this ban, which got 25,000 signatures.
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