Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Penal Reform: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Vivian Geiran:

As I mentioned in the presentation, we have been running various restorative justice initiatives for the past 20 years and I believe we should not wait around for legislation to do what is good practice. If that or any other legislation introduces specific measures on a legislative basis, we will implement them but we are already doing quite a significant amount of work in the restorative area without the need for specific legislation. There is provision under the Children Act for certain types of restorative intervention but, more generally, that is not the case.

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