Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

There is promised legislation in an area which may be pertinent to the meeting between the Taoiseach and Northern colleagues today. It relates to paedophiles or suspected paedophiles coming here from abroad who have no legal obligation to inform the Garda when applying for a job that puts them in contact with children and with no mechanism to monitor this. The promised legislation on the register of persons considered unsafe to work with children may have an impact on this.

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