Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I believe I have answered that question three or four times in the past month. Serious consideration needs to be given to the issue of legislation to give effect to the protection of children by preventing unsafe people from working with them. One of the problems relates to the issue of soft information and hard information. One of the points that arises in that contexts is what we propose to put into a constitutional amendment. We have not achieved consensus on the latter issue. How we deal with this legislation is contingent on reaching some view on whether we need a constitutional amendment in place before introducing the legislation.

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