Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I would like to ask the Minister for Finance, who has worked in the Departments of Health and Children and Foreign Affairs, about the register of persons who are considered unsafe to work with children. The House has not since 2004 been given any indication of when the legislation providing for that register will be considered. It has gone completely. It is hoped that the institutions in the North will start to work after 8 May. We were told that the promised legislation I have mentioned was contingent on developments in the North.

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