Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Departmental Transformation Programme: Department of Justice and Equality

Photo of Caoimhghín Ó CaoláinCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is fine and I think it is the appropriate thing to do. I will finish by stating that Deputy Jack Chambers was not in the earlier private session of this meeting, but one of the items of correspondence was a reply to questions raised by him regarding the Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Probation Judgments and Decisions) Bill 2018. The Deputy raised those questions in May 2019 and I have just circulated the reply from the Department some six months later. That is one of the areas at which we will definitely be looking. We are the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality and we are accountable to the public. We are the face of the citizenry and we need a much speedier response rate than six months. That is only an indicative example. I have encountered much worse in my three years as Chair. That just happened this morning, however, and I am bringing it to the attention of Mr. O'Driscoll.

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