Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

If one does not, under section 70C(2), "A person who contravenes paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (1) commits an offence." In other words, regardless of whether one is inspected, anyone in the country who does not comply with the standards set in the Bill will be committing an offence. Consequently, the point about the inspection behind which the Minister is hiding is a red herring.

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