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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...would still have full control of who is on it. A person cannot just demand to be on the board anyway. People have to show they work in the area, such as working in community development, as a drugs worker, in youth and community sectors or whatever field. Yes, they have a previous conviction. We see people who have done time in prison during their lives working on task forces and in...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Barry Ward: ...ever be used to debar someone from membership of the board is problematic. I have mentioned speeding as a previous conviction but a previous conviction could also include capital murder or very serious drug trafficking, fraud or whatever it might be. This might necessarily deem a person ineligible under many other criteria. The baldness of the amendment makes it problematic and I do not...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...to serve on boards. We see many people in our prison system now leaving there and going to university to study criminology, sociology, etc. I have two friends now with PhDs who cannot get any sort of work in any area they have studied in. I think they would be an asset to any board, and especially this board. At the level of the drug task forces, we have also struggled to get people...