Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank colleagues. I think we can do as Deputy Cullinane proposes and we are moving into it now. I was going to suggest a Report Stage amendment to provide for a review. We can discuss the timeframe but it would have to include an assessment of how the legislation is working in respect of the warnings. That is something that has been identified by the committee. It has been explored at length by the committee and I would be happy to pursue that.

Deputy Bríd Smith asked about central recording. This is not my area so if I have this wrong, so be it. My understanding is that the PULSE system records many things centrally but it does not have a facility specifically for warnings. If somebody commits an offence in Cork, the guards in Dublin will be aware that an offence has been committed but will not be aware that a warning has issued. That is something the guards can look at. It would be a bit like the Minister for Justice beginning to regulate for electronic patient health records. That is something that falls within the remit of health. I hear the Deputy. If she were to walk into an emergency department in Cork and then come back to Dublin to attend her GP, the GP would not have a record of her health files. It is an issue in health that we are trying to solve.