Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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That brings me to recommendation 15 and the review. I hope and presume that the example of somebody being detained since the 1970s is probably the worst-case scenario or the longest detention of which we are aware. I have a few questions about circumstances where somebody has been detained since the 1970s or 1980s. What is the best practice in terms of timely reviews? What happens on the ground? Who has access to those kind of reviews? What is the cost of a review? Is it more costly to consistently review somebody, say, every three or six months, than it is to formalise their detention in some other way or remove them from the CMH and put them in a community setting? I ask because I want to understand how long-term detention would interact with a more workable review system.