Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Page seven of the programme for Government commits to the reform of sentencing for offenders. The Tánaiste will have seen the very moving vigil held by the Irish Road Victims Association outside the Dáil yesterday where 188 photographs of people who had lost their lives through reckless drivers were displayed. One of those photographs was of Marsia Lieghio, who was tragically killed in a hit and run on Fonthill Road in our constituency in 2005 aged just 16. Will the Government commit to bringing forward legislation to reform sentencing for offenders and will this legislation include a sentencing council that will provide guidance to judges as to the appropriate sentence for an offence such as this? Will the Government also commit to including the voice of families bereaved by reckless drivers in any such promised legislation?

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