Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Commissioner and her colleagues and offer my condolences to them on the death of Garda Golden. I wish to touch briefly on the bail laws again, as I tabled a parliamentary question to the Minister regarding people who were out on bail and who have reoffended.

Last year more than 23,000 people who were out on bail reoffended, and more than 25,000 people reoffended in 2010, much of which was petty crime. I accept that we cannot put all those people into jail, which I understand is frustrating for the Commissioner and her members. As late as yesterday, one of the nation's most prolific burglars was before the courts-----