The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, has said no one should have the right, having shot and beaten someone, to 'hunt them and finish them off'.
Referring to the controversy surrounding a recent court case, Mr McDowell said he believed no one in the Dáil would suggest that such a right should exist.
He was replying to Fine Gael's Jim O'Keeffe, who suggested that the current law needed to be rebalanced towards the homeowner confronted by a burglar.
