Incidentally - the electronic tagging solution is by no means the most extreme proposal(even if you don't count Harry Watton's "exterminate the impossible" suggestion to be found in its chilling fullness at the end of 'The Travelling People').
Mikeen McCarthy was encouraged to become involved by his father when he wrote to 'The Kerryman' in response to the suggestion, again by a T.D. that "all Travellers should be rounded up and forcibly settled on an ofshore island"
Jim Carroll