Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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Yes. It was just trying to get people to give up their knives. It was relatively effective. We got much publicity. I am fully aware that the criminal justice sanction is a pretty blunt tool. However, I do not think anything Senator Ruane said is incompatible with this. In respect of criminal justice legislation we introduce, perhaps we need to look in the future at trying to consider other types of sentences.