McEntee rules out mandatory treatment programme for imprisoned sex offenders

The Irish Prison Service  has no proposals to make offence-focused treatment for sex offenders mandatory for a number of reasons

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee TD says treatment programmes of any kind are generally only effective where the person concerned accepts that their behaviour has caused serious harm and wants to take ownership to change their own behaviour. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

Justice Minister Helen McEntee has ruled out any plans to make the main prison treatment programme for convicted sex offenders mandatory.

Ms McEntee says the Irish Prison Service (IPS) has no proposals to make offence-focused treatment for sex offenders mandatory for a number of reasons.