Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

No. The current legal provision is designed to be as flexible as possible and to cover all means of telecommunications, including all means of radio transmission. It is more helpful that the definition is so broad than trying to define every piece of equipment that might be useful in this area. The current definition is a benefit to the legislation, not a problem. The Deputy referred to a range of different systems on the last occasion we discussed this and it covers all of them.

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