Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I will check it — I do not know if there is substance to that point. The fact is that it has been repealed by legislation. If it is included in the reaffirmation of the Offences Against the State Act, if I understand the point, that would suggest, which the original legislation continues to include that section, it has been repealed by other legislation. There are many issues of law where we still have on the Statute Book, prior to consolidation or prior to modernisation or codification of law, provisions which are repealed by other legislation, which do not come into effect simply by their existence, since the repealing provision supersedes the original.

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