David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

No. I will withdraw it and will possibly re-enter it on Report Stage. I ask the Minister of State to consider carefully what has been said. I accept that it is implicit, as the Minister of State said, but in a busy court, it may not occur to a judge that urgent electronic communications are in the interests of the welfare of a child.

I think amendment No. 54 in the name of Senator Bacik is very clever. It refers to "the care and welfare of a dependent child", but I think it should be dependent child or children, in case there are several children.