Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)

The review will be available in April - possibly - and the penal policy group will be examining this. Does the Minister not agree that electronic tagging has its limitations? It might show where a person is but it does not show what they are up to or with whom they are associating. In the wider policy on rehabilitating prisoners before releasing them back into the community, there are pre-release programmes and peer support programmes. Will a holistic approach be taken to this issue or is it being looked at in isolation as something the Department wishes to implement?

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