David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

It will not be observed on the margins. The real point I want to make is that we never really legislatively confronted the nature of what is a child. In the last session of the Seanad we had legislation in which, in the same Bill, definitions of children ranged from 15 years to 18 years. We have not confronted what is the nature of a child. We have not given a proper satisfactory legislative definition of what is a child.