Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

I understand the idea of encouraging compliance with codes of practice but, again, Senator Bacik has missed the point. A code of practice is in place for guidance, not as a list of statutory requirements. It is in place to give guidance so as to ensure the statutory requirements are not infringed. It comes back to the Senator's amendment No. 27 concerning failure to comply with a code of practice as a criminal offence. If it were to be an offence, then the authority would automatically refuse the renewal of a licence to anyone guilty of such an offence which I am not altogether sure one could make mandatory.