Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Scrutiny of Parole Bill 2016: Discussion
9:00 am
Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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I will have the committee know that I have many vocations, but they have very little to do with those big buildings with the spires on top.
On Deputy O'Callaghan's point about punishment and rehabilitation being 50:50, I would think that taking people's freedom away by removing them from society and putting them into the prison apparatus would constitute the punishment. They should not be punished further while they are inside. They are already punished everyday because they have no liberty.