Mary Henry (Independent)

I move amendment No. 20:

In page 15, lines 27 to 32, to delete subsection (2) and substitute the following:

"(2) The Council shall publish each register within 12 months of the setting up of the register and thereafter at intervals of not more than 12 months.".

The Minister has addressed this in amendment No. 21. She must have decided to share my anxieties. There is a vast trade in illegally prescribed drugs and it is depressing to learn of the amount of legalised drugs traded between drug addicts — analgesics, various anziolectics, steroids and the like. My concern was putting too much information on the Internet. Security lapses occur all too easily and such substances could be found too easily if a person were a keyholder for a pharmacy, for example. There would be a security risk for the person involved and also a risk to the security of the drugs.

I note that the Minister has provided, in amendment 21, that the duty should not extend to the home addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, etc. I would be grateful if I knew she had asked the Garda Commissioner about this because he gave a speech the other day about draft advice on security in pharmacies because it is a significant problem. I do not know that people really need that information on the Internet. It can be published somewhere but one would like to know who was looking at the information.

Perhaps the Minister might consider my point about the Internet. It is that which concerns me because it provides easy access to anyone to get a fair bit of information about someone who is in a position in which he or she has the security of supplies and the security of himself or herself and his or her family, to consider.