James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There was a debate in the Houses last week on the Shane O'Farrell case, which I am sure some of the witnesses will be familiar with. One of the issues that arose was that the offender was on bail and allegedly had not been complying with bail conditions. This seems to be a pattern across many of these instances, where we have people who were on bail. Unfortunately, it seems to be almost impossible not to get bail. There are conditions attached but a breach of those conditions does not seem to result in the bail being withdrawn. I do not know if any of the association members want to comment on that.