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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: If amendment No. 67 is going to pass, that is fine.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: My comments are on the same theme. My two amendments are similar to Deputy Daly's amendment but are worded differently. The conditions attached should be reasonable and proportionate. A breach in a parole order should not automatically mean a return to prison. All relevant circumstances should be taken into consideration, including prior behaviour on licence. A recall to prison can...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I disagree. We do not expect to agree on everything. We agreed that if someone seriously breaches his or her parole conditions, that is a very serious matter and should be dealt with accordingly. However, life is not black and white. We all break rules on a regular basis and we are not always necessarily penalised draconianly for it. I certainly do anyway. Deputy O'Callaghan states...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: We do not want to push them but we do not want to withdraw them. Is that possible?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: We will discuss them again in the Chamber.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: We think what is proposed is far too restrictive.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: We will withdraw them but we will not move them.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Okay.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: We did not invent it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: It would make sense to allow that facility. It is not the end of the world either way.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Okay.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: It has the same status. I am not pressing it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I will withdraw amendment No. 85 because it overlaps with amendment No. 87. I have already made the same argument on the need for proportionate response to the seriousness of the conditions breached.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The two are the same which is why I am withdrawing amendment No. 85. It refers to the element if proportionality

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I always do what I am told.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am not moving it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 89:In page 22, line 5, after "parole" to insert "and their legal representative".

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Security Committee (24 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the national security committee took place; the current members of the committee; the number of times the committee meets each year; and the role of the committee. [23329/17]