4.3 pm
Criminal Law (Amendment) (Householder Protection) Bill
4:45 pm
Lady Lady Hermon (North Down, UUP)
Does the Minister accept that although very few people are actually prosecuted at the end of a long trawl by the Director of Public Prosecutions, householders in the widest sense of the term have an agonising wait to know whether they will face prosecution? The issue is not how many are actually prosecuted in the end, it is the trauma caused to those who do not know because the law at present is uncertain. Does the Minister accept that point?