Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I would not be introducing this if I thought that it were not advisable under the European Convention on Human Rights to provide for such an appellate system. It is for that reason I want to do it.

I ask Senator Cummins to consider the notion that I could stand up in public and state that a man or woman is about to lose a year's entitlement to liberty which has been determined by a prison governor, and that person now has a right of appeal to a former prison governor.