Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion
Mr. Bob Collins:
There is no concern that the authority has that cannot be very easily provided for through relatively easy amendments to the heads as they currently stand. I do not want people to take away from our comments that we do not see this proposed Bill as being very significant and positive in very many respects for the community as a whole. We might come to that element later.
There are a number of specific matters where problems can be pretty readily addressed, even within the framework the Government appears to want to have in the overall architecture. Minor adjustments would make significant real, psychological and perceptual differences. We worry that people will think that this would be seen as moving back from a position that was seen as so very necessary less than six years ago, as I mentioned.
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