Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have listened with care to the learned counsel and to the Tánaiste. My genuine fear is that if it were accepted, the amendment would have an inadvertent and adverse impact on the effectiveness of what is extremely important anti-gang and anti-criminal legislation. As others have pointed out, the new section 3 lies at the heart of the legislation and it introduces the notion of the bureau officer and reducing the value of the seized property to a threshold of not less than €5,000. These are measures I strongly support. On balance, I am minded to err on the side of caution and not push the amendment for those reasons.

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