Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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As Mr. O'Malley has outlined, there is a variety of grounds. He talked about stranger rape where there is a lot of evidence such as injuries and things like that. Who would gather all of that information? How quickly can it practically used? It does not seem practical to collect all of that to start with, as it is a very traumatised environment.

Let us say a case is difficult to prove, the person has not gone to the Garda and then the person is not believed. Is that not the most difficult scenario to legislate for? How does one legislate for such an instance? It may well be technically possible to do so but it will be very difficult, though not if one considers the case from an holistic point of view. All of that goes against the point that has been made about being believed.