Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

While this pertains to the enforcement of the existing Charities Act rather than to new legislation, I accept the Deputy has raised a significant issue in respect of the manner in which much street selling takes place, particularly if one is dealing with large utilities, whereby people are signing under inappropriate circumstances on the street when they are thinking of something else. I will ask the Minister to revert directly to Deputy Buttimer in this regard.

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