Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome this amendment. One of the issues we discussed on Committee Stage related to the concerns around foreign nationals. A full check can be made on a Irish citizen so I would like the Minister to monitor that situation on an ongoing basis. We can avail of the opportunity offered by the amendment to do so. The Minister had indicated that it was only in exceptional circumstances that a situation might arise where we would not be able to access a police check on a foreign national in his or her home country. Through this process we can monitor that over time.

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