Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left) | Oireachtas source

I would like the Minister to introduce an amendment to this Bill to include in it bail for cases involving dangerous drivers who, having taken heroin, are stopped by the Garda, who have no tax, insurance or NCT certificate and who end up mowing someone down on the road. In the case to which I refer, a man in the prime of his life was killed. Nothing in this, Bill as it stands, is going to address that situation. We need, therefore, to amend it.

The courts need accurate information when deciding whether to grant bail. In the case of Shane O'Farrell, we know that the court was not given evidence of the perpetrator's previous convictions. The Garda did not give that information to the court, so the court made the decision without it.

GSOC is carrying out a public investigation in respect of this area into 59 admissible complaints of a criminal character, yet one of the policemen who is under investigation has been promoted. One of the senior counsel who protected that person-----

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