Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Amendments Nos. 84 to 88, inclusive, address section 26. This is a section of the Bill to which I intend to bring further amendments. I have been advised that the issuing of warrants by the parole board authorising a member of An Garda Síochána to apprehend a person is not appropriate. I will bring forward substantial amendments to this section to provide for a system of returning to custody a person released on parole where that would arise under the provisions of the Bill.

I would ask Deputies to consider not pressing these amendments, given that I am looking at revising this section in its entirety. Two of the amendments, Nos. 86 and 88, are fairly technical but I would ask that the Deputies consider not pressing the others at this stage because we need to look at this section as a whole as to how this will work precisely.