Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of Bail Bill 2015: Discussion

9:30 am

Ms Deirdre Duffy:

The Garda obviously needs to arrest a person if a bail condition is about to be breached in order to prevent a risk of serious reoffending or whatever it might be. Clearly, members of the Garda would need to have reasonable cause and evidence that something was about to be breached and it would need to be at a high threshold.