Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I listened to what Ms. Ní Chinnéide said and I accept some of it. I do not think there is the time or that it is necessarily the appropriate juncture, so I do not want to get into areas on which I would disagree with her today. However, there is a whole raft of views on why repeat burglary offences are committed by those who come out on what are very short burglary sentences. It is perhaps an area for another day. Leaving out the drugs side of it for a second, if someone is consistently committing less serious offences, to use Ms. Ní Chinnéide's term, or minor offences or whatever and that situation is not being resolved by other means, there seems to me to be a need for a custodial-type regime at that point that protects the public as well as just focusing on different areas in terms of rehabilitation of the offender. At the end of the line, there is a real problem, which does not seem to be addressed in some of the remarks and answers given.