Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

We are considering a totally new approach five minutes before the conclusion of our consideration of this Bill. From the way the Minister has outlined it, I am attracted by it but it is no way to make law. The Minister has partly resiled from the original crime prevention order approach in the new section 25 and is now advocating an approach that involves two different strata, involving both the monitoring orders and protection of persons orders. I am attracted by the approach and want any provision made to be constitutional but I have not had the opportunity to consider the approach in detail. It has not been debated on Second Stage or Committee Stage and we do not have time to discuss it on Report Stage. This is not a way to make effective law and it is a sure recipe for bad law.

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