Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I support the amendment. It makes sense. The whole purpose of the legislation is to ensure that individuals who have already engaged in the process of application to the court under the Domestic Violence Act 1996, as amended, are in a position to continue with those applications. As such, it is very important that there is no suggestion that those applications are in any way invalid because new legislation has been put in place which will have the effect of repealing other legislation. It is an important amendment which Fianna Fáil will support.

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