A rape survivour says sex offenders should be monitored through GPS tracking on their release from prison.
Debbie Cole says such sex offenders are not being tracked closely enough.
She says there are now too many offenders in the community for the probation service to properly supervise.
She told Newstalk Breakfast: "The problem is is that there are too many serious sex offenders on the streets with practically no supervision.
"Although that have supervision orders, it's impossible to monitor any offender 24 hours a day - unless they have a GPS tracking monitor on them.
"You have a supervision order that they might only have to sign on at their local Garda station once every five or once every seven days.
"They can be anywhere in the country for the rest of those days doing anything and nobody knows any different.
"So for people like me, who are aware that these people are back in the community, living in your neighbourhoods, walking down your streets, drinking in your pubs: we need to know that we're safe.
"People often turn around a say 'Well, what about their human rights? Don't they have human rights?'
"Well I'm sorry - where's my human rights to feel safe and secure in my own home in my own town, walking down my own street.
"I firmly believe if you commit a crime like that, you voluntarily give up your rights to have the same human rights as a person who has never committed a crime.
"And the only people who would have a problem with having a GPS ankle monitor are people that intend to go out and hunt for their next victim anyway".
'We live with this sentence'
Shane Coleman asked if those people who have served their time should be given a chance to re-enter society, Debbie said: "My time is until I take my last breath: my attack was 31 years ago, I'm still living with the sentence so surely an extra couple of years of that person having an ankle monitor is not too big a deal if they've no intentions on hurting anybody again.
"It's not like it's on their face, it's not like it's around their neck like a dog collar so everyone in the street can see it - it's on their ankle under a pair of trousers".
She said she believes such a move would make a big difference in terms of re-offending.
"If you take into the account the guy that had attacked me: after he was released from prison for attacking me, he went on to seriously attack three women in a couple of months space while he was on early release for my rape.
"Once he's out of prison, he'll attack again.
"Whereas if he has an ankle monitor on him with a GPS tracker in it, then there's less likelihood of him going to offend cause he knows he's going to get caught straight away".
Debbie says she has held several meetings with ministers and officials on this, going back to former Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald.
She added: "After my bill was passed I had tried to get a meeting with Minister Charlie Flanagan through Kevin 'Boxer' Moran.
"Kevin approached Charlie Flanagan for me regarding the issue of sentencing, that they should be monitored more closely on release and ankle monitors was the way to do - would he meet me to discuss different things?
"And I'm still waiting for that, and now we have a new Government.
"So with all the COVID and stuff, I haven't actually brought it back to the new Government.
"It is something that I'm 100% not going to let lie until it is done".
In an appeal to Justice Minister Helen McEntee, Debbie said: "Please pick up the ball where others have let it drop, and start looking at the impact that these cases and these attacks have on the lives of the survivours.
"We have to live with this sentence for the rest of our lives - we deserve to be able to walk down the street, to be able to live in our homes and not worry about how many of these sex offenders are living down the road and nobody knows".
