Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I am satisfied with the five years. The whole Bill will not all be enacted on the same day. I expect the parts of it regarding the governance of CAMHS and community premises to come first. The changeover in age verification and the piece in regard to voluntary detention and the Garda may take longer until we have all the authorised officers in place. To set a definitive timeline of two and half years is not appropriate when some parts of the service might only have been up and running for six months. That is why we landed on the period of up to five years as against the ten years that was in the original draft. That is the reasoning behind it.

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