Catherine Ardagh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 4:

In page 9, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“(9) The Minister shall lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas within 12 months of the commencement of this Act on the operation of section 6B of the Act of 1994, as inserted by this section, and the offences and penalties contained therein.”.

This relates to a report on how section 10, and the related section 6B of the 1994 Act, is working. The amendment calls for the Minister to lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas within 12 months of the commencement of this Act on the operation of section 6B of the Act of 1994, as inserted by this section, and the offences and penalties contained therein. It would go into the diary for 18 months, at which point we could see how the criminal sanctions have worked in practice.