Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

This amendment ensures that the benefit of forfeiture should go to the authority in whose functional area the offence was committed. This is to encourage authorities to actively enforce the law in their functional areas. The forfeiture of craft in addition to a fine and/or imprisonment may be imposed by the courts on conviction on indictment of a person for the dangerous operation of a craft. Indictment proceedings may only be taken by, or at the behest of, the Director of Public Prosecutions as per the Prosecutions of Offences Act 1973.