Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These amendments are technical. They provide for consequential changes to a number of other enactments arising from the new section 3A, covering non-fatal strangulation or non-fatal suffocation offences, and section 4A, which covers non-fatal strangulation or non-fatal suffocation causing serious harm offences. The effect of these is essentially to extend existing provisions, which are currently applicable to the existing section 3, that is, assault causing harm offences, and section 4, that is, assault causing serious harm offences.They will now also cover sections 3A and 4A.