Ms Joan Deane:

I am not a lawyer but I understand what Dr. Rogan and Ms Malone have said. It is obvious there is a law to refuse bail. We do not feel it is being applied well enough because the evidence given by gardaí and families is not being listened to sufficiently. Where bail is breached, I do not think the information is being recorded sufficiently. Data are not being shared with other regions. Therefore, people are free to move around and offend in one area and nothing is done about it. They go to another area and commit another offence. We need to join up a few dots to make the system more effective. With regard to electronic tagging in homicide cases, one can have a tag on one's ankle and still shoot or stab somebody. It will not stop that. It may place a person at the scene of a crime after the event but I am not sure it would prevent such an attack if that were to happen. That is what I have to say about that.