Sentencing Policy
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-20
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Richard Bruton (FG), Dublin Bay North

I welcome that. It is wrong to try to make decisions on appropriate sentencing entirely in the dark in relation to what is happening already in the courts. It is important that we inject urgency into achieving consistency by judges and in the guidelines issued to them, as well as the report back on that. Until we have made the transition from paper to digital, we should introduce an interim measure to get greater access to that information in the intervening period.

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Sitting date: 2022-10-20