Derek McDowell (Labour)

It does up to a point. I have not had the benefit of the debate in the Joint Committee on Transport. I assume there was some reason for trying to limit the time and place. If that decision was taken, the power in the Bill is very general.

I want to get a sense from the Minister of State as to whether he wants the power to be that general, whether he wants authorisation to be given by an officer in charge of a Garda district which would allow checkpoints to be set up with little limitation. If that is his intention, it would be useful for that to be on the record.