Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is the use of that. It does not exist, so to disapply it for the aged-out child brings it onto a level playing field and brings it back to where it was. I am not saying we should not have on the Statute Book something specific about murder as it relates to children but it does not currently exist. Applying the amendment as it stands inserts something specific to murder for the aged-out child where it does not exist for that child at the moment. It is not to say our objective is not the exact same, and the objective of the amendment is to align us. The objective of this Bill, however, is very simple in that it is making sure there is absolute alignment on this issue between a child and an aged-out child. More engagement and further work are required, however, in the children (amendment) Bill and, separately, the Supreme Court, which may or may not say something that might influence that Bill.

Further work needs to be done on that. It is simply on the basis that the objective here is to completely create that level playing field-----

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