Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Another issue which came up for a lot of discussion and has been referred to already is the issue of a warning. If one were trying to tease that out from an operational point of view, how would that work? If somebody was protesting in County Kerry, from the point of view of a record, how would a garda implementing this legislation in County Galway know that person previously had a warning? The issue was from an operational point of view. I do not think anyone saw an easy way of dealing with that. That is still to be resolved, it would seem. How necessary is it to have a prior warning? Can it not be an offence dealt with in its own right?