I intend to ask the Dáil to accept the following amendment, which was inserted in the Seanad. I propose, then, that we should read the amendment a second time, and that the Dáil should then go into Committee on it.
Before Section 3 to insert a new Section as follows:—
"In any case where a responsible Officer of the Military Forces of Saorstát Eireann has reasonable ground for anticipating that it will be necessary to enter a dwelling-house for the purpose of effecting an arrest, to be made by him under this Act, it shall be the duty of such Officer, wherever reasonably practicable, to arrange that an Officer of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or the Gárda Síochána is present at such entry, and the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Home Affairs shall make such arrangements as may be necessary or desirable for this purpose."
Amendment read a second time.