I don't think so. I want to say that I am very much in favour of restorative justice. They have to be dealt with very carefully, but I don't see anything in the former law, which is still in effect with respect to suspended sentences and probation orders, that would prevent the principles of the Hollow Water program from being implemented under that existing law. Conditional sentencing, as far as I know, adds nothing to that.
I could be mistaken as to exactly when the Hollow Water project came into force, but I thought it was in the early 1990s--around 1990 or sometime around then. Conditional sentences only came in in 1995, so I don't see it impacting.
The system was flexible enough to accommodate all of those kinds of programs. If there was really a problem with allowing more conditions or allowing for the imposition of additional conditions, then I think the simplest thing would have been simply to amend the suspended sentences regime instead of bringing in this whole new regime, which caused tremendous problems in terms of enforcement and in terms of understanding it, but we're stuck with that program right now, and I'm trying to make the best of it that I can.