Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Those are the two time periods I am talking about. The courts do not sit in August, although they may sit for serious criminal matters. The District Court sits one or two days a week, depending on the area of the country. During the Christmas period the courts also do not really sit, except for criminal matters. Therefore, you would run into problems with the 14 days' notice. That is one of the issues.

The second issue I want to touch on is the proposed section 73A, which refers to "reasonable grounds for believing that a person is, at any premises, carrying on the business of a designated centre in a premises that is not registered". An awful lot of religious communities now have an ageing population. Instead of having five or six members of the religious order in different locations, a lot of them tend to bring them all into one location in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford or wherever. Will that section 73A give power to an inspector to go into such a facility? Is that the intention? A concern has been raised that an inspector could interpret his powers as entitling him to go into such a facility.