Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The reality is that technology has moved on. We can put a microchip on a tractor and trailer that has a very small long-life battery and that can be monitored remotely from a satellite. There are probably hundreds of such devices across the Minister's constituency in County Meath. The same would not be true of mine and Deputy Kenny's constituency, where there are only small tractors and trailers that are not worth robbing.