Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage

9:00 am

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

Both previous speakers made fair and reasonable points. The classic problem for people in these vulnerable scenarios is that they do not get the level of services across the multifaceted arrangement that exists. Typically, the problem is that they have no legislative framework to support their needs. An argument can always be made that prescribing certain services excludes the others but we could amend it to include "other services as appropriate". If we exclude what I believe is a reasoned amendment it will not give full effect to what we are trying to do.

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