Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Section 98 provides for an offence of causing dissatisfaction among members of An Garda Síochána. It provides that a person who causes or does any act calculated to cause dissatisfaction among members of An Garda Síochána or does any act calculated to induce any such member to withhold his or her services or to commit a breach of the standards of professional behaviour will be guilty of an offence, and it sets out the penalties which will apply following conviction of such an offence. It restates section 59 of the 2005 Act, subject to amendment, to align with the wider Bill. With regard to Deputy McNamara's amendments, I will clarify this matter for him before Report Stage. One would imagine that the 2019 legislation would have been cognisant of the European Social Charter rulings but let me-----