Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Spent Convictions: Discussion

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Very often, one could have a number of offences related to a single incident. Is there any scope to consolidate that particular incident for the purposes of spent convictions? There might be more than two convictions and, in fact, more than two serious convictions, but those might have been applied in respect of the same act or incident.