Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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One can only act when one gets to that point. If one receives a telephone call from a credible person to say somebody is injecting something into an animal which he or she should not be doing, one can act on this information. One can ask that person to desist or stop doing what he or she is doing because one has reason to believe he or she is causing an offence. That is the type of circumstance envisaged. There are many others also, but that is the one that springs to mind. We want authorised officers to be able to act quickly, rather than having to gather evidence before they can require somebody to stop doing something. There might be a better example.