Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am inclined to agree with the Minister and the Chairman on this point. Over the past ten years, in particular, the number of cases that have been taken in the court under section 10 has increased greatly. The offending behaviour in a great number of them seems to cease with either a bail condition or under section 10 (3) where an order can be made. That tends to remove the problem. I would have to be convinced that a separate offence of stalking, on top of the new section 4 and the section 10 as exists already, needs to be created with a potential seven-year penalty already in existence.