Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I want to know about the future. Can the Taoiseach give an assurance to parents that from this weekend their children are safe? That is the issue. All the Taoiseach is saying is that we will have a wide-ranging debate about the age of consent, equality of gender etc. That is an interesting debate that we should have in the future. In the interim we need this loophole shut off.

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