Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On what the Minister said there about petty thefts, a theft offence, if it is on indictment, carries a penalty of up to five years, so it is possible that could be included in it, and all the more reason that if we are going into a six-month time period of a continuous assessment of it, it would be prudent to go to a Circuit Court judge-----

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