Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 24:

In page 9, (subsection 13), line 47, to delete "may, upon" and in page 10, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute "shall not commit the person to prison pursuant to an order under subsection (1) for a period exceeding--".

The Bill provides that a court would not be obliged to sentence a person for a longer period than the maximum available by law in Ireland but may do so. This is undesirable and the amendment proposes to prohibit the court from imposing a longer sentence than that available here.