Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald-O'Reilly:

It provides a backdrop. The idea is sound but the way in which it is currently framed exposes it very much to challenge. To some extent, one could build upon it, rehash it and reframe it but in some ways it might be better to propose it as a new provision within the Government Bill and examine how it might be worded and constructed more tightly with regard to the issues I mentioned. It might need to be within the Government Bill as a new provision and framed differently in the context of what it hopes to achieve and how it will achieve that. That is my simplistic answer to the question.

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