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

Yes. It will be some months before the final version of the directive is agreed by the European Parliament. Once this happens and the directive is adopted, the Office of the Attorney General and my Department will examine to decide whether there are areas of our domestic law which will require reform, amendment or addition in order to ensure that Ireland implements the directive in full. We will then either draft stand-alone legislation or include the necessary provisions in another Bill relating to the area of criminal law that is under preparation at that point.