Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I also support the amendments. I assumed we were talking about nail clippings, so that we would not have to extract an entire nail to obtain an identification, which is gruesome and painful to think about.

I thought iris identification was well developed now. Does the Minister of State have a briefing note, the details of which he can share with the House, on how advanced iris identification technology is? It was an omission from the original draft of the Bill and it is sensible to insert it now.

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