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

3:00 pm

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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If, for instance, a prisoner is taken from the UK to Ireland, and is released on to the streets of Ireland, and we find that person is not safe and commits a crime or kills somebody, where does that leave us? How can we ensure that will not happen? If the British authorities say a person is not safe and yet we cannot lock him or her up because their tariff is completed, how can we handle that issue?