Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 23:

In page 10, lines 10 and 11, to delete "is adjudged bankrupt or makes a composition or arrangement with creditors or".

This is in response to a proposal made, either by the Chairman or Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, at the pre-legislative scrutiny stage where a criticism was legitimately made of why somebody who is adjudicated a bankrupt should be disqualified from serving on a parole board. The proposal is merely to delete that.

The section will mean that if a person is on the parole board and he or she is convicted of a criminal offence leading to imprisonment, then he or she would disqualified.