Eugene Regan (Fine Gael)

I welcome the Minister and appreciate that he has personally presented the Bill to this House. I have no difficulties with the Bill and, in fact, the matter to which it refers has only recently come to light. A number of criminal law practitioners brought it to my attention last week. I welcome the Minister's comprehensive explanation. It was an inadvertent oversight and essentially a technical error which, as the Minister stated, has not affected the bail system. When Bills are introduced in a rushed manner, this type of error can creep into the legislative text. Will the Minister assure the House that legislation passed in the past two years which contained comprehensive amendments to the corpus of criminal law has been checked for any other errors we may otherwise have to revisit? I support the Bill.