Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Niall Counihan:

The Chairman mentioned "un-personal".

Restorative justice brings the person-to-person aspect back into it, with victims speaking to offenders. At the moment everything is going in the direction of technology, which is taking some of the personal aspect from it. Restorative justice is strictly about humanity.