John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

-----from applying their own standards and their own method of ensuring that a citizen complies with the State. Given my experience at local authority level over 25 years, I have no doubt that the rights of the citizen will be ignored and the State will ensure that the officials apply the letter of the law to every one of them. In the references in the Bill, the Minister speaks of criminal proceedings and what the officials can do.

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