Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Michael Finn:
If someone is out on bail, we have the capacity to bring him or her back into court. Making the process as user friendly as possible is what we would seek. I might have five gardaí on night duty who discover that Mick Finn is in breach of bail conditions. A statement by those gardaí to the effect that they called to his house and that he was not there should be sufficient to go back into court. However, some judges insist on the garda who detected a breach of bail conditions having to come in for us to get a warrant to have the person brought to court.
That is the type of issue I would like to see dealt with in the context of the Bail Act. They are the day-to-day housekeeping issues that impact most on the ground in terms of the resources available to me. Is that what the Deputy was asking about?
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