Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is an ineffective amendment, which I do not support for that reason. Our law is not perfect and I am sure our enforcement system is not perfect but we just passed an amendment without any comment from the Senator which introduces a provision that a party directed to pay compensation to a complainant but who fails to do so, except in circumstances where he or she is unable to pay, would become exposed to proceedings in the courts. We have made that party guilty of an offence for failing to do that, so we are strengthening the enforceability. We are trying to make the process work more effectively where complaints arise.

There is in all of the parent law, which it would appear the Senator derided----