Up to 27,000 crimes a year committed while on bail
It has been revealed that 27,000 crimes a year are committed by people out on bail while charged with another offence.
The Dáil has also heard that the chief suspects in 15 murders over the past 20 months were out on bail.
Fine Gael has described it as a "scandal" 13 years after Fianna Fáil declared "zero-tolerance" on crime.
But Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has said there is nothing he can do.
