Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I support Deputy Jim O'Keeffe's proposal. We had some discussion on this matter on Committee Stage, when the Minister talked about the practicalities of it, accepting that the most practical way to do this, perhaps, would be to have portable screens that could be transported to the Garda station where an identification process was due to take place. Both Deputy Jim O'Keeffe and the Tánaiste will be aware of the long discussions on this and related matters that took place at the Joint Committee on Child Protection. While those discussions largely focused on child protection and the identity of perpetrators against children, I believe they have a more general application.

I will confess to the House that I was involved in an identity parade when I was a student.

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