Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. I do not think it is a good idea that anonymity could be sought because people will fight for it. Is it the sole responsibility of the director of the authority? I have expressed my views on the capacity for directors to keep their names out of the papers and the disparity between some poor young fella walking around who has been done for the possession of a joint or something, and people will say that those things are there. Notwithstanding all of that, if there was a capacity in legislation to request anonymity, or seek it in some way, then one is in the territory whereby the argument before we start will be a fight for the anonymity clause to be invoked. I welcome the fact that the Minister of State is going to come back to me on that. The legislation will be stronger for an understanding that that is how this is going to happen.