Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 28:

In page 25, to delete lines 33 to 36.

The Minister can correct me if I have got the interpretation of this wrong. It seems to me that the longer the custodial sentence, the shorter the maximum period of the monitoring post release. If that is the case, it is absolutely crazy. We are saying that the more heinous the crime and the higher the severity of the custodial sentence, the less time the person can be monitored post release. I hope I have interpreted it wrong but that is where I am coming from in this amendment.

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