Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

It is very difficult to interpret and one would not know what one was doing by enacting it. I feel if I produced section 14 in a Bill and sent it to the Attorney General's office the staff would, as they have done on a number of occasions, state it is so vague it is impermissible. If one wishes to criminalise something, one should state what one wants to criminalise.

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