Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

Members of the Traveller community can currently be registered at the side of the road. That flexibility could apply. I am more concerned about the other point made by Deputy Gilmore. He is worried about two things and one of them is the problem with homeless people registering, but practical arrangements can be made in that respect. His other concern was about someone who might be put in jail for incest. It would be an embarrassment to the family that the person would be registered in the family home. The address to be listed would have to be another place where the person might have been residing. The Deputy made a good point and I have not given a particularly coherent answer. I will look at how that issue can be dealt with in the guidelines. It is better to do it there than in primary legislation.

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