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

I am broadly supportive of Deputy Wallace's point about reasonable time. That is valid. I do not think it is appropriate that someone would be waiting months in limbo. That is an unfair and almost cruel way to treat someone by leaving them waiting like that.

On Deputy Daly's primary amendment, I would link it with what Deputy O'Callaghan has said that if one is too prescriptive on this in terms of its overall constitution and not allowing the chair that flexibility one will end up fairly quickly with a situation where inordinate delays will come out of parole board reports, caused by five people having to sit on every one. If we establish something and put a chair in place, a certain amount of flexibility has to be put in there for what is effectively a day-to-day management decision by the parole board.