Seanad debates
Wednesday, 5 March 2003
Prison Visiting Committees: Motion.
It does not make sense to have people living in Kerry on the Mountjoy visiting committee and people from Dublin on the visiting committee for Cork. This is not an effective and accountable way of doing things and it will have to change. There are 23 members of the visiting committees who are resident in Dublin and not one of these has been appointed to institutions in Dublin such as St. Patrick's Institution, the Training Unit or Wheatfield Prison. We propose an end to this system. I ask the Senators on the other side of the House to support our motion. Reform of the prison visiting committees is long overdue.
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