Cecilia Keaveney (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)

In their case parents could be required to produce such a bill. There must be some mechanism put in place to meet this requirement. In many cases parents give their children the money to buy a mobile phone. Some form of identification needs to be produced because the other side of the coin is their dangerous use in criminal activity. Considerable manpower hours have to be devoted to tracing the owners of mobile phones. Sometimes the authorities get hoax calls but many such calls are not in that category. Therefore, the mechanism I propose is valid.

I also draw the Minister's attention to the Buncrana Garda station in terms of it being open 24 hours a day and having adequate Garda resources. He knows my view on that.

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