Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Prisons, Penal Policy and Sentencing (Resumed): Victims' Rights Alliance

9:00 am

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms McDonald for presenting her report. I have a few questions. She highlighted in her statement restorative justice and the fact that it has been excluded from many of the draft proposals from the Minister's office. Does she feel the victims directive is not being transposed fully and properly in this draft Bill? If not, why not? Has she had engagements with the Department of Justice and Equality as to why it has not provided a more wholesome Bill? She mentioned Canada. Can she provide other comparative examples of countries that have done this properly and transposed it effectively?

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