Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

Amendment No. 24 is consequential on Government amendment No. 25 which provides comprehensively for the power to arrest suspected offenders without warrant. If I may refer to Senator Mooney's question, this is standard practice now and the House would agree that in a situation where jet skis or vessels are in water, in the time a warrant could be obtained for arrest a tragic accident may already have occurred and the legal advice is that this is the correct way to proceed.