Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

Any nightclub owner with difficulties in this regard must communicate with the Garda Síochána, which will act on the complaint as the rightful body to respond.

When the Oireachtas passed the Act in 2004, it did not decide that everyone with a criminal record should be barred from working in the private security area. Rather, it took a more sensible approach because criminal records can be acquired for relatively small offences. Deputy Shatter referred to people on the doors as thugs. I take it he was not referring to everyone as such.

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