Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I am accepting amendment No. 65. It is a worthwhile suggestion that it should be an ordinary event that a notice should be served on the relevant people. Supposing, however, for some reason this not done and there was no prejudice to the prisoner. In such circumstances, a degree of flexibility would be required. If a person in the court office forgot to send the notice to a prisoner and he or she did not mind, we would not want it to be the case that something could not be done because that notice was not sent. I will re-examine the matter before Report Stage.