David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know that even if a person has a conviction, it does not automatically mean he will be barred from entering or working in another country, but it might slow things down. That is where these elements are coming from.

It is simply a matter of putting on record the concern over whether, and at what level, there is any intention to engage other jurisdictions in order that spent convictions here can be recognised in other jurisdictions and vice versa. It is a self-declaring and self-administering system in the main, but there is also a role for the State, as these amendments portray.

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