Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

Senator Brian Hayes raised the matter of the rights for victims. He stated that it has emerged that the Prison Service does not possess the legal standing to inform victims of perpetrators of abuse that such perpetrators are about to be released and that if such standing could be given to the Prison Service, it would be good. I, too, heard people speaking on the television who had been victims of a particular person and who now fear his release. In a way, giving rights all round would be good because arrangements could be made for that perpetrator as well as those whom he has abused.

Senator Hayes also raised the matter of the magnificent——