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- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: Before Deputy O'Callaghan continues, my amendment No. 5 refers to "sentence management and issue orders". That is the key difference. Amendment No. 6 does not refer to "issue orders", but can orders still be issued if amendment No. 6 was accepted?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: We could certainly go with amendment No. 6 for today, and I would reserve the right to raise the points later when we look at the piece put together.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: That is fine.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: The bulk of the amendments in this section are mine and I will go through them individually. My amendments are linked and share a theme but some highlight different points. My amendment No. 10 refers to the appointment system and calls for the two members with experience of the supervision or aftercare of discharged prisoners to be appointed subject to section 8(2)(i). At the moment it is...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: Are we?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: That amendment is sorted. Sorry, it is too early for me.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: Excellent. Yes, amendments Nos. 14 and 15. Amendments Nos. 16, 17 and 19 are on the same theme. They make the opposite point in a load of different ways from what Deputy O'Callaghan has made in his amendments. My amendments seek an open competition for appointment to the board and the rationale is the same as previously. I do not have a difficulty with the professions being...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: ------for a branch of the parole board. I missed the deadline by a week, which gave the Department a great excuse to say no to me. I shall apply for it again later in the year. I do not come from the backgrounds highlighted but I work quite a lot with people who are in prison.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: My amendments seek to introduce a greater balance. The board should not just be comprised of legal bigwigs and all of the rest or their organisations. A balanced board is better. I appreciate that there is a different way of considering this matter than what Deputy O'Callaghan has proposed. The gig is not exactly a popular one and people are not queuing up to join. I could not get on...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: Not professional.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: There are a number of threads. The involvement of the Public Appointments Services is part of a broader political debate flowing out of public disquiet over the way in which appointments to boards were previously handled. It is something we have discussed. In this context, I am prepared to see this is a board that will not be a highly sought-after gig with loads of initials after people's...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 10:In page 8, to delete line 32 and substitute the following:"(i) two persons appointed through a competitive selection process coordinated by the Public Appointments Service to have:".
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: I will. That does not prevent me bringing it in later.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 13:In page 8, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:"(j) two persons appointed through a competitive selection process coordinated by the Public Appointments Service with knowledge and experience of working or volunteering in a support role with criminal offenders and discharged prisoners;".
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 26:In page 11, line 35, to delete “3 or”. The amendment refers to the panel that will make decisions on applications for parole. The Bill, as drafted, states: "A panel shall consist of 3 or 5 members, as the chairperson may ... determine". I will not make a big deal of this, but my concern is that three members might be too few - a dominant personality...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: I was interested to hear the views of the members. I am still not sure. I appreciate that there is flexibility in the three to five members provision, we are not saying it should be three in all cases, there is a provision. Perhaps it is a case of extending where the discretion to invoke three or five lies. Maybe that should be a matter for the whole board rather than the chairperson, but...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: Can it not be included now and can the Minister change it?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: This is about the review hearings and where the parole board can ask for a report to be carried out as part of the decision-making process on parole. It looks for additional categories to be included.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Clare Daly: I thought we are on amendment No. 32.