Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Neither I nor the people on this side would be able to stand over a situation whereby people who did the right thing and quietly paid their charges would be disadvantaged in any way by their decision to obey the law. Let me make that clear. We would not stand over a situation whereby people who disobeyed the law benefit over those who obeyed. That is the reason this is one of the issues to be considered carefully by the committee that the House has set up.

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