Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The amendment we have just made is a relatively minor amendment.

Our two amendments were linked. We wanted to oppose this section because it relates to sexual acts with protected persons. To us the terminology creates another category of person where there does not need to be one in the context of sexual acts. There are already laws against sexual acts, abuse, rape and so on in order to prosecute somebody but this creates a new category.