Ms Kate Mulkerrins:

I draw the attention of the Deputy to the defence I referred to in head 4(8), where it is a defence in the proceedings for the defendant to prove that he or she honestly believed at the time of the alleged commission of the offence he or she was not in a safe zone. That subsection is going to be a significant difficulty if there is no delineation of a safe zone in a complex urban environment. The gardaí attending, and there have been multiple ranks and experiences of this, equally have to be able to direct people on the morning to remove themselves from that safe zone without proper delineation of where that is. If it is a single site hospital with a large open area, that may be one thing, but much of our infrastructure overlaps other buildings and these are multipurpose sites. We know that. I live right beside St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, where Luas lines go through it, as do bus corridors.