Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like to make one further comment. Victims are very fragile sometimes and killers have great energy, chaos has great energy, and the victims get silenced all the time. The energy, the push, the language and the law sometimes seem to be behind the perpetrators. I am talking about convicted first degree murderers. I am not talking about fatal assault or even manslaughter. Those are different areas. There seems to be an energy behind this, even with the coming back to court on the head of a pin of the law, and the victims are being delayed and have to wait. We argue the clippings of tin around the victims. The power and the energy seems to be in the chaos and not around the victim, but the victim and everything surrounding them should come first. Our inference is in the wrong place.