Mr. David Walsh:

The non-imposition of sanctions for breaches of access orders does not just happen in Ireland but is also very common in England.

Mr. Justice Sir Paul Coleridge produced a report on it which found that imposing no sanctions had a very bad effect. The sanction suggested by Dr. Róisín O'Shea seems like a useful one. She has suggested compensatory time be made available for the parent who has been dispossessed, as it were, and that the compensatory period be greater than the period of loss. I think Mr. Justice Coleridge in England went further. He suggested that in extreme cases the offending parent simply be denied custody altogether or lose it.