Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like to be convinced and would love to know who those people are. I would like to be convinced that the Bill will help them. I hope any legislation would help. Perhaps they know how the formula will work because I cannot see any logic to it. That was the question, although I do not doubt in any way the Minister of State's motivation. I do not doubt that there are people who are hurting badly because the criminal justice system has failed them, but the point is we do not want to repeat it by bringing forward a bad law that will not help them when we should have been spending the time in considering judicial guidelines and establishing a judicial council to make improvements in some of these areas. I am trying to understand the logic behind the formula which does not make any sense to me as loads of people are excluded. Hardly anybody will be covered by it. Therefore, I would like to know a little more about it.