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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: It is a good point that the person is there of his or her own volition, but he or she is there to access support services. We are making provision for the fact that victims are being provided with the legal right to have a person or solicitor present while accessing support. When removing that right, there should be a fallback. This is about choice for the victim. I understand what the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: As per the directive, we are defining the right of somebody to have a support person with them if they choose. It may or may not be a legal person. That is a good development. I also agree there can be limited circumstances where a garda sees something is not right and the accompanying person is actually not supporting the victim and needs to intervene. I have no problem with these parts...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: The choice should be with the victim, whether they have somebody or who the person might be. Again, asking a support person to leave should be in exceptional circumstances.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: It also involves amendments Nos. 76, 65 and 24.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: Did we not agree amendment No. 14? Amendment No. 14 was the one the Minister of State agreed to. I am looking at what the knock-on effect of that is.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I am trying to identify the difference between the two amendments. I am reading them again and the words seem the same.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I will stick with my own amendment. I cannot see the difference between the two of them.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: They are probably the same. Go with it. We can change it again. I think they are exactly the same.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I will bow to his superior legal drafting skills. I think they are the same.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I think they are the same. It is just that Deputy O'Callaghan has a better grasp of the legal aspects.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: On a slightly different point, the Minister, through no fault of her own, also missed the start of the meeting. One of the main points that arises in this regard is that the directive uses the word "shall". If members are to be denied the right to table amendments that propose broadening the definition of the investigating authority, I appeal to the Government to review the matter before...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 34:In page 11, line 30, before "information" to insert "all relevant". As it stands, the legislation provides that victims will be provided with information, which is a little vague. We are all trying to address this issue in slightly different ways. My amendment proposes to clarify this provision by providing that "all relevant" information be provided. This relates...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I would have liked to have put down "all information", but because "all information" clearly is not appropriate in certain instances, I did not propose "all information". By including "all relevant information", it presumes it is information that can lawfully be given and would not impede a prosecution or be too sensitive to be given out or whatever. The word "information" on its own is...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: Yes. Let us look at it on Report Stage. I again stress the point that if "relevant" is good, "all relevant" would sit better. I hope that someone would not lean on it later if they need to get access to some documentation to help their case. I hope we can change the culture. That would not be necessary anyway.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I will look at it on Report Stage in the interests of the hour.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I would really like it looked at on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 42:In page 12, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:"(vi) any relevant conditions under which a sentence imposed on the convicted person, is suspended or part-suspended, (vii) any relevant post-release supervision order conditions imposed on the convicted person.".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: It was in the first grouping. We have just realised that we missed it there earlier this morning. It was the first one up in a big grouping so no one actually referred to them.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: That was our fault and not the Chair's fault.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: I know it was in the grouping, but it was not actually discussed. It is too late for that now. I know it was in the category that was discussed so we are just at voting stage now.