Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Scrutiny of the Civil Liability (Amendment) (Prevention of Benefits from Homicide) Bill 2017
Professor John Mee:
It is unusual. Most countries do not bother giving the legislative time to this and there is an element of misunderstanding that has led us to this draft legislation, which is good. People thought that the problem was even more serious than is the case. That is why we are here, which is good. There should be legislation but it is complicated. I am doing my best to explain it but I am not creating the complication. The simple answer of just taking the property from the person is unconstitutional, so the suggestion is to take half.
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