Colette Kelleher (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The amendments in this group relate to communications around children in cases where a respondent has been prohibited from contacting the applicant. A concern has been raised by Barnardos and others that an exception should be made for urgent communication relating to the welfare and care of children. Amendments Nos. 10, 13, 15, 18 and 29 seek to do this but it is done most neatly in amendment No. 54. In this amendment the language is tighter and it inserts a new section addressing the same concern. I support that amendment and ask the Minister to accept it.