Draft bill calls for mandatory jail terms for white collar crime
A Labour TD has drafted a bill to impose mandatory jail sentences on white-collar criminals. Clare backbencher Michael McNamara is seeking to get the support of his colleagues at their parliamentary party meeting this week.
He said he had drawn up the bill to extend the mandatory sentencing currently in place for firearms and drugs offences to white collar crime.
“If you go ahead and hold up a shop and steal €1,000, you get a custodial sentence. If you steal the whole chain of shops, you get away with it. We just don’t view it as serious,” he said.
His bill provides for automatic jail sentences for those ...
