Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Penal Reform: Simon Communities of Ireland
9:00 am
Ms Niamh Randall:
There seems to be a number of reasons. I am not always absolutely clear why there is not more reporting on the basis of the information collected in the PAS system but certainly, there is a need for some kind of quarterly reports from the PAS system which are currently not produced. Obviously, data protection is a key issue and the validity and the verification process can take time. Certainly, it is a very robust system so more public reporting on that would be very useful.