Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 November 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin

10:00 am

Mr. Noel Waters:

The motivation for it has been that very point, that people are awaiting trial for a very lengthy period. In order to move that on and in order to bring people before the courts the Government decided to do that and steps are under way to make that court function very quickly. That is at the very high end in many cases. Yes, there are issues in terms of bail. Perhaps Mr. Martin would speak about the constitutional issues around bail.