Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána
Ms Kate Mulkerrins:
They would need to know, but the difficultly would be, and we spoke about this earlier, that where a person moves to a new venue and new circumstances of a protest, that person will have a defence subsequently because the warning o the person will have been for safe zone A, for example, in hospital 1, whereas hospital 2, in my view, will have to reissue that warning for that to be specific to that hospital. I am aware the legislation as drafted seeks to give an omnibus warning in any location.
Analogous to the Covid-19 regulations, there was no recording of any of the three Es. When we stopped a person and asked what that person's reasonable excuse was for being outside of 3 km, if the person said they very much wanted to have a burger in a different shop, we said they had to turn around and leave-----
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