Dáil debates
Friday, 2 June 2006
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage.
11:00 am
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
If, at the end, the price of protecting children by reference to their age is that we have to introduce after 16 years of resisting such a proposal, a measure of this kind to allow perpetrators to cross-examine children through their lawyers in court on the issues I have mentioned, we will do it.
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