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

They can still operate but they will be working with the partnership instead of the JPC. The intention is that there will be no gaps, so there will be a provision for that. With the local elections happening this June, the natural order would be that the JPCs would be stood down and when the legislation is enacted later this year, that all of the community safety partnerships would be stood up. Obviously, we are moving to implement as many of them as quickly as possible but if there are any gaps, the JPCs will just continue until the partnerships are stood up.