Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Parole Board will be put on a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36206/17]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that the policy issues raised by the establishment of a statutory Parole Board are being considered by my Department in the context of the Government's response to the Parole Bill 2016, a Private Members' Bill initiated by Deputy Jim O'Callaghan. As the Deputy will be aware, that Bill recently completed Committee Stage in this House.