However, it will be of concern to me if the Bill will be the only response to the promise contained in the Fianna Fáil election manifesto. I am glad to see that some members of the Government remember that document and that some promises in it are seeing the light of day in legislative action. Reference has been made to the fact that the Bill was a response to a promise made in the Fianna Fáil election manifesto issued last February. There is no doubt that the introduction of the judicial process of issuing a barring order for the protection of a beleaguered spouse or family has been an incredible safeguard and an important development in our law to protect vulnerable people.
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The message must go out from the House that we have full confidence in the barring order procedure and in the competency of any of our courts to make such an order when the judge or justice thinks it proper. We want to emphasise clearly that if and whenever a barring order is made, drastic though it may be, it is in response to a very drastic and unhappy situation. The Minister, in the opening speech delivered on his behalf, used the word "drastic" when referring to the issuing of a barring order. Many commentators, and those concerned directly in the area of this law, are concerned that it will be seen abroad, particularly within judicial circles, as an endorsement of a trend by the Legislature of a view that the barring order has been somewhat too punitive or onerous a provision in dealing with matrimonial strife in the past. However, I must pass a number of comments in the context of the Bill and of some perceptions abroad as to the possible effect of its provisions. The Workers' Party recognise that it is an important though small amendment to the whole armoury of the development of law for the protection of the family, spouses and children beleaguered by matrimonial strife and difficulties. Appearing before an Oireachtas committee.
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