Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage

2:20 pm

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am aware that some of that work is quite good. It is important to bear in mind that a good deal of this comes down to judgment. We will have to review this in the future based on the empirical data that will arise a as result of the analysis carried out over several years. We will learn from that. There is political coming together on the issue and it is the common-sense thing to do. From the Government point of view, now that this has finally been done, there is likely to be a willingness to take that approach.

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