Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

In response to Senator Mullen's comments on my introducing the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 as a red herring, I referred to that Act in response to the question raised by Senator O'Toole. It was not introduced as a red herring but merely referred to in answering the Senator's question.

I outlined the experience in this regard in Sweden. Senator Mullen doubts the existence of the social anthropologist to whom I referred.