Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

The maintenance of that register is important, but it will be meaningless without a mechanism to identify such people; we are back to enforcement.

I wanted to make broad points going beyond this Bill's scope and the Minister's departmental concerns but which are important in the context of constructing a mechanism that will be good for Irish society. This Bill is tailor-made for a detailed discussion on Committee Stage and I look forward to it.

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