Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If someone is asked to look after a soccer, cricket, Gaelic or camogie team for one day, no issue arises. The legislation envisages that someone might be briefly involved in this regard. During the Second Stage debate I made reference to a school sports day, on which parents help out once a year. There would be no requirement to have the parents of half of the school's pupils vetted. There are common-sense provisions in the Bill to ensure that where vetting is genuinely required, it is undertaken, but where there is brief informal involvement of an individual and not regular engagement, vetting is not necessary.