Jim O'Callaghan
speaker
581 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Jim O'Callaghan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And nothing happened on it, even though the legislation providing for the monitoring, electronic monitoring of prisoners was on our statute book.
I have insisted that the tender be run.
The tender has now been run.
Bids have come in.
I'm committed to getting electronic monitoring up and running.
When?
Listen, in terms of the time span, I've got tenders in.
We're going to make a decision in respect of it.
Like, this is something that happens in the PSNI.
It happens in the UK.
It happens elsewhere.
And it's also not just about... It's not really a punitive measure.
It's about, as well, freeing up prison spaces to ensure that we can have people monitored without the necessity of incarceration.
So, like...
I won't give you a figure or date in terms of when it'll be done, but it'll certainly, my assessment will be done within the next 12 months and I want it to happen this year.
Well, I don't know about that.
A hundred years ago, it was just embryonic.
Nobody thought it was going to get off the ground.
It has been the most successful political party in Ireland.
It has been one of the most successful political party in the world, if you look at it over the past hundred years.
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