Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I am trying to tease out whether these provisions would apply if one was not allowed to leave one's house, and then one's boyfriend, who is more than two years older, arrives. I am thinking on my feet. This provision is a very broad stroke. I expect the Minister to say that prosecutions would never be brought in such circumstances. That is the only safeguard in this regard. We should be as precise as we can in this legislation.

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