David Norris (Independent)

The Minister has successfully shifted the goalposts. The law is patently not being implemented in respect of drinking, which is a genuinely anti-social issue. One can walk down any street in the centre of Dublin and see people sitting on footpaths and boozing away to their hearts' content.

I sympathise with Senator Tuffy. It must have been a horrible experience having a car driven at her house by louts. However, an ASBO would not solve problems such as these. She introduced an extraneous argument.