Michael McNamara (Clare, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that. The fines are set out in the Bill as €500, €1,000 or whatever, and over time they become meaningless as the fines in the 1946 Act became meaningless. The power to prescribe fees is just a general power to prescribe fees, and we can be absolutely certain that once they are introduced, they will go up every year and will not become meaningless, so I welcome the Minister of State's consideration of a further amendment.