Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Joint Sitting with the Joint Comittee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Pro-Social Drivers Programme: Pro-Social Ireland
11:00 am
Mr. Gary Doggett:
I might answer the question on the prison system. It is quite interesting. We have explored that area ourselves. In putting this course together, we are very conscious of following best practice. We do not want to go out on our own and be mavericks; we want to see what is going on in other countries. We have spoken with the Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit, the road safety board in Austria, which has been running driver rehabilitation programmes since 1978. I believe they have become mandatory since 1995.
The Czech Republic sent us a programme it uses within its prison system and we have had informal discussions about it. We have spoken to a person with whom we have good connections and that person has spoken with prison officers about the possibility of doing something similar.
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