Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I join my colleagues in thanking the Minister of State and particularly the officials in the Department who brought forward this legislation in jig time in light of a crisis that has hit this country. It is an excellent piece of work. There is work to be done all the time, but I congratulate the officials and the Minister of State. I look forward to a message going out from the Oireachtas in general to those who wander around the streets of Dublin and other cities in this country with guns that we are watching and we will not sit idly by. We will strip them of every single asset they have until such time as they have no means left. That is the message we need to send out to the criminals in this country. I thank the Minister of State for having come to the House today. I also thank the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald.