Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

I welcome the Minister's amendments. We raised this matter via a number of amendments on Committee Stage, as we were concerned that extraneous circumstances other than a first conviction could be the case. Consequently, a number of our amendments were to insert "only" in several areas of the Bill. We welcome that the Minister has taken on board what we said on Committee Stage and compliment him on changing the Bill to cater for our proposals.