Brendan Ryan (Labour)

Nobody argues with what the Minister says. However, I am thinking of the irate father who comes home to find his 16 and a half year old daughter, slightly dishevelled, with her 17 and a half year old boyfriend. The father is angry and knows the local Garda sergeant. I believe it would be possible to prosecute the 17 and a half year old for this if it were the couple's second or third date. We must be careful. I do not envisage a huge number of the type of people Senator O'Rourke mentioned earlier——