Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I take on board what the Minister of State has said. We will put the amendment so we can amend our amendment.

The big piece I want out of this is the code of practice, which would be provided to all the necessary stakeholders. Beyond that, I ask the Minister of State to look at the problem I am talking about and having something in the legislation. It could be just the need. That is sufficient at times in legislation, but I have heard too many times that the only way someone can sign this is if a person is threatening somebody else or threatening to do so something terrible to themselves. You can see what they are doing is impacting really badly on them over a continuous period but it is not an imminent threat.

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