Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Domestic and Sexual Violence: Discussion

11:40 am

Ms Rita Harling:

We tried to get in touch with the Home Office in the UK to see if we could get more information on this. It was a pilot scheme that was brought in with the Clare's Law register, but it has been so successful that they are going to roll it out throughout the UK. This means it is working, which is because it gives security. I am a mother and I would like to know that if I thought my daughter was in an abusive relationship, I could go and have a look at the background of this guy she is possibly going to end up marrying, and who is probably going to end up fatally inuring her. I would like to know that information and I have a right to know that information, as a parent.

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