Maurice Hayes (Independent)

While I do not want to prolong this debate or anticipate what might be in a regulation, I agree with the Minister of State. It may have been a misprint but it is difficult to see where the amendment would fit in between lines 44 and 45. Subsection (4) deals with a series of exclusions and to add a proscription would be to mix the sugar with the salt.

These small matters are better dealt with by regulation. I anticipate that the Garda Commissioner and the Chief Constable will have a joint board to deal with such matters, perhaps all at once. I suggest that we accept the Minister of State's view that these matters will be better dealt with when we discuss the regulation.