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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 59: In page 93, line 25, after “State” to insert “in the fulfilment of their professional functions”. Section 101 sets out the circumstances in which members of An Garda Síochána and the Garda Commissioner will be held liable for certain acts. The section, as drafted, provides that where a garda commits an actionable wrong,...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I accept that with respect to something that occurs in the line of duty. If somebody was not on call and has access to a Garda vehicle, the use of that vehicle would not be within his or her professional remit. If my house is burgled while nobody is at home and I come home and ring the Garda station, the driver of a Garda car who is involved in an accident on the way from station would not...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Subsection (5) contains the qualifier that the liability does not extend to wrongs committed by the use of a mechanically propelled vehicle which belongs to the State.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is that regardless of what type of offence a garda is responding to while using the car?

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 60: In page 95, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "(i) a local drug and alcohol taskforce,". We have had some brief discussion on this issue previously. The amendment seeks to add local drug and alcohol task forces to the definition of what constitutes a public service body under the Bill. As drafted, the Bill includes references to a vast range...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I disagree with the Minister on that point. The make-up of the task forces is basically six, six and six, comprising the statutory, voluntary and community sectors. The bodies listed in this section are all statutory bodies and all have a particular function within that statutory role. I am not saying the members of those bodies do not choose to be there; they commit to the engagement and...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I take that on board and understand it. The Minister is correct that there are not task forces in every area. It will be very specific. It is not always drugs and alcohol. It often has a much wider remit than only responding to drug and alcohol use because these exist within community infrastructure in general relating to many other issues within the community. Drug-related intimidation...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I am open to the Minister coming back and examining this and the regulations. I would love a timeline as to when she will look at the regulations as regards what they look like. Why are statutory organisations the only mandatory bodies? Let us forget about even drug and alcohol task forces for the moment. As regards community representatives, why is community in some framework not...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It will be. Can-----

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: But in this section, where it names the statutory organisations-----

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It names community in the next ones but not in the statutory ones.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Why are the statutory ones named in regulation?

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes, but I refer to giving the same importance to the role that any community organisation plays, without naming a specific organisation. I understand this is spread across the country. We are naming the statutory bodies and then naming community organisations. I know that seems quite vague because it is wide open, but it places the same importance on it as on these. I do not understand...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I will press it.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I will speak to amendment No. 62 in a moment but first I will lend my voice to Senator Boyhan's amendment. I meditated for approximately an hour before I came here today because I was getting ready for the furore and the strength with which we would see people advocating for local representatives and I hope that is still to come. When I think of local representatives in those spaces, for me...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 62: In page 97, line 13, to delete “prior to” and substitute “in”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 66: In page 103, to delete lines 3 to 7 and substitute the following: “(9) In carrying out duties under this section, the Director shall not provide information that might facilitate the commission of an offence, prejudice a criminal investigation or prosecution or jeopardise the safety of any person.”.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I have a few amendments in this grouping. On the last day we were here before Christmas, the Leader of the House stated the Government was within its rights to use time in the way it wanted. I take issue with this because it has come in here today to guillotine, which interferes with our time and right to speak on something.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Before Christmas, Fianna Fáil took up the space completely in terms of dialogue-----

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: -----and then removed our ability to engage. Senator Malcolm Byrne referred to engagement at the level in question rather than just talking. I am glad Fianna Fáil took the space to engage because, right now, I stand here with amendments I withdrew earlier on so-called Committee Stage on the basis that I could resubmit them on Report Stage, during which the Minister and I were to...