Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Repatriation of Irish Prisoners in the United Kingdom: Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas

2:50 pm

Fr. Gerry McFlynn:

They cannot win either way. Even if prisoners satisfied the parole board after two, four or six years, they would be on licence in the UK and Irish authorities would not take them back.