Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The national office for community safety will be the main office that will manage and support the community safety partnerships. The community safety partnerships will replace the JPCs and essentially expand out on the work they do. It will not just be members of An Garda Síochána, the local authority and local authority members or Oireachtas Members that are part of this group. It will include 30 members in total, 11 of whom will be mandatory. It will include a designated chair, at least seven elected members, representatives of the HSE, Tusla, An Garda Síochána, the Probation Service and community members.

There will be a broad range of people working to develop a plan for their area, specifically focused on community safety. What the national office will do is assist all of those individual partnerships. They will each have their own member of staff dedicated to their own community partnerships and they will then be connected with the overall office to make sure that people are supported, are staying on track and are doing the work they are supposed to do. The office will undertake a review of the plans, including how they are being developed, how they are working, where they can be improved and if changes are needed. The national office will be the oversight mechanism to make sure that they work effectively.