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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: This Government is committed to ensuring a strong and visible police presence throughout the country in order to maintain and strengthen community engagement, provide reassurance to citizens and deter crime. To make this a reality for all, the Government has in place a plan to achieve an overall Garda workforce of 21,000 personnel by 2021 comprising 15,000 Garda members, 2,000 Reserve...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As was mentioned by the Taoiseach in the House last week, the issues relating to the recent trial of persons involved in water-charge protests in Jobstown, including Deputy Murphy, have been considered and processed by the appropriate State authorities, which are established under the Constitution and by Statute enacted by the Oireachtas. Following a Garda investigation and consideration by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: This Government is committed to ensuring a strong and visible police presence throughout the country in order to maintain and strengthen community engagement, provide reassurance to citizens and deter crime. To make this a reality for all, the Government has in place a plan to achieve an overall Garda workforce of 21,000 personnel by 2021 comprising 15,000 Garda members, 2,000 Reserve...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Responsibilities (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will be aware, Ministers of State are appointed by the Government, on nomination of the Taoiseach. In accordance with the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) (No.2) Act 1977, the Government may delegate, by way of an Order, to a Minister of State any of the powers and duties of the relevant Minister of the Government under any particular Act or any particular statutory power...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: This Government is committed to ensuring a strong and visible police presence throughout the country in order to maintain and strengthen community engagement, provide reassurance to citizens and deter crime. To make this a reality for all, the Government has in place a plan to achieve an overall Garda workforce of 21,000 personnel by 2021 comprising 15,000 Garda members, 2,000 Reserve...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: This Government is committed to ensuring a strong and visible police presence throughout the country in order to maintain and strengthen community engagement, provide reassurance to citizens and deter crime. To make this a reality for all, the Government has in place a plan to achieve an overall Garda workforce of 21,000 personnel by 2021 comprising 15,000 Garda members, 2,000 Reserve...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: This Government is committed to ensuring a strong and visible police presence throughout the country in order to maintain and strengthen community engagement, provide reassurance to citizens and deter crime. To make this a reality for all, the Government has in place a plan to achieve an overall Garda workforce of 21,000 personnel by 2021 comprising 15,000 Garda members, 2,000 Reserve...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Inquiries (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As was mentioned by the Taoiseach in the House last week, the issues relating to the recent trial of persons involved in water-charge protests in Jobstown, including Deputy Murphy, have been considered and processed by the appropriate State authorities , which are established under the Constitution and by Statute enacted by the Oireachtas. Following a Garda investigation and consideration by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for carrying on and managing and controlling generally the administration and business of An Garda Síochána, including by arranging for the training of its members and civilian staff and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. An Garda Síochána is committed to providing a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Meetings (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy is aware this tragic case was considered under the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM) and the recommendation was that no further action should be taken. Counsel for the IRM pointed out that the appropriate forum for raising matters related to alleged Garda failings was the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) who were already investigating certain matters arising...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: This Government is committed to ensuring a strong and visible police presence throughout the country in order to maintain and strengthen community engagement, provide reassurance to citizens and deter crime. To make this a reality for all, the Government has in place a plan to achieve an overall Garda workforce of 21,000 personnel by 2021 comprising 15,000 Garda members, 2,000 Reserve...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will be aware the matter to which she refers is connected to the ongoing consideration by the Public Accounts Committee of the Interim Internal Audit Report concerning financial procedures in the Garda College, Templemore. As the Deputy will also be aware the Committee is expected to issue their report in the near future. The Garda Commissioner has been Accounting Officer for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Authority (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will be aware that the Policing Authority is an independent statutory body established on 1 January 2016 to oversee the performance of An Garda Síochána in relation to policing services, to promote public awareness of policing matters and to promote and support the continuous improvements in policing in Ireland. The statutory basis for the Authority is the Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for the distribution of resources, including personnel, among the various Garda Divisions and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. Garda management keeps this distribution of resources under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the optimum use is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Accidents Data (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: While the specific matter raised by the Deputy has not featured in recent discussions, there are a number of fora in which my Department and I liaise with officials in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport on road safety matters. I will attend the fourth Ministerial Committee on Road Safety of 2017 with Minister Ross on 24 July, along with the Road Safety Authority, An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Independent Review Mechanism (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy is aware that the outcome of the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM) included recommendations in 5 cases for the setting up of inquiries to examine issues raised in those cases. My predecessor accepted those recommendations. On 15th May 2017, following consultation with the Office of the Attorney General and with the Policing Authority, Orders were made establishing five...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy may be aware, the Garda Commissioner requested the Serious Crime Review Team (SCRT) to examine the case in question, as a matter of priority, ensuring that all avenues of enquiry are fully explored and addressed. The Deputy will appreciate that the management of particular Garda investigations are matters in the first instance for the Garda authorities and I have no direct role...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Common Travel Area (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Common Travel Area has been in existence since Irish independence and has its origin in the close historic relationship between Ireland and the UK. While not addressed in a discrete piece of legislation, or one formal agreement, both jurisdictions have made administrative and legal provisions over many years as necessary to give effect to its operation. Of particular note insofar...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Equal Opportunities Employment (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: Clearly, the Supreme Court judgment in N.V.H. v. The Minister for Justice and Equality is an important judgment, and its full implications are being examined carefully. The Court itself recognises the complexities around this issue in that it acknowledges the Executive function in not only controlling who should enter the State but also to regulate the activities of non-citizens while in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (12 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 87 and 101 together. I sympathise with the family of the victim in the case to which the Deputy refers. This was a brutal killing carried out in the course of a bank robbery; indeed, the crime was an attack on the State itself. I am informed by the Garda Authorities that the Garda Serious Crime Review Team carried out a full review of this case. That...