Mr. Barry Carey:

I do not know whether it is the official view of the IFA, but I would call for all of the issues around sentencing for rural crimes and repeat offenders to be examined. It appears from media reporting and various incidents that the same people are walking out the prison door. We have called for people who reoffend while on bail to be sent back to jail. That should be the norm but there is sometimes a revolving door. It does not give communities great confidence that the system is working when repeat offenders go before the system, for whatever reason come out the other side and are back in the community in a very short period or almost immediately.