Vincent Jennings
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173 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Vincent Jennings’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They collected well in excess of 100,000 euros worth of bottles and cans in the period that it's been going on and have bought medical equipment for their hospital.
Isn't that the most wonderful thing that wouldn't have happened without the DRS?
It is.
It most certainly is.
But, I mean, it's a not-for-profit for everybody along the way.
We're not making money from it.
It's costing us money in labour.
But it most certainly is, from a societal perspective, it is paying this way.
Absolutely.
You got it in one.
This is a situation where we want the state to acknowledge that the victims of crime, and in this instance, obviously, because I represent retailers, I'm speaking about retailers, but any victim of a crime who has suffered a financial loss.
that they are treated effectively as preferential creditors if the matter comes before the courts, and that the presenting guard, the DPP, must inform the judge that there is money outstanding or that compensation has been paid to allow that judge to take the decision as to how to dispense with any matters relating to a non-fine or otherwise.
Yeah, and I don't believe that actually the solicitor who represented the man actually said, this is for the poor box, he said he's brought €300 into court by way of mitigation.
And the judge should, I'll be perfectly honest with you, the judge should have actually said, because they knew that it was €125 worth of fuel had been stolen from these people, and it should have inquired, has compensation been paid?
It hadn't.
We know because they're members of ours.
And they should have said, OK, well, we'll take the 300 and 100 each to the service stations or at very bare minimum, although we'd argue against that, at very bare minimum, the cost of the fuel that had been lost.
That would not be unfair.
No, it doesn't bother me.
That's a matter for the courts.
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