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- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: Yes.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: A total of €1.3 million is going towards that.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: They are in particular urban areas. I am sure I can get the details for the Chairman if he wants them.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: Garda town centre CCTV schemes are planned and implemented on the basis of the Garda Commissioner’s identified operational needs and priority. There are 27 Garda CCTV systems with a total of 524 cameras. I have a long list of areas if the Chairman wants me to call them out?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: They are Dublin North Central, Dublin South Central, Temple Bar, Tralee, Cork city, Bray, Dundalk, Dún Laoghaire, Galway, Limerick, Clondalkin, Ballyfermot, Tullamore, Drogheda, Tallaght, Mullingar, Waterford, Portlaoise, Kilkenny, Ennis, Castlebar, Sligo, Kinsale, Dungarvan, Clonmel, Carlow, Athlone and Finglas. While An Garda Síochána has no current plans to install further...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: Yes, I think so.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: This is the €17 million going back to the fixed charges.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: Yes.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: Yes, that is correct.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: Let me check if I have those numbers. I have commented on that on a number of occasions, most recently when I launched the new penal policy reform report, which is a very impressive piece of work about the future. At the end of October 2014, 3,775 prisoners were in custody. It is an occupancy level of 92% of the Irish Prison Service capacity of 4,126.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: It is a decrease of 7.7%. It is a decrease of 1,037, which is 7.7%.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: It is a technical adjustment.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: It is a very significant piece of legislation. I have had some discussions with the Courts Service about it and, like the committee and the Courts Service, I am very keen that it be fully enacted. The Courts Service accounting systems and criminal case tracking system are developing the IT system to facilitate its early implementation. A substantial piece of work is involved in ensuring...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: No, but it is regarded as an urgent issue. I have been told that a considerable amount of work is involved.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: I thank the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2014) Frances Fitzgerald: Excellent.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (27 Nov 2014)
Frances Fitzgerald: I intend to seek the approval of the Government for Ireland to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence against Women and Domestic Violence - the Istanbul convention - as early as possible in 2015. While the provision on emergency barring orders in the convention raised an issue which has a constitutional underpinning, my advice is that a constitutional...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (27 Nov 2014)
Frances Fitzgerald: At its meeting on 13th May last, the Government agreed to the establishment by the Minister for Justice and Equality, in consultation with the Attorney General, of a mechanism for an independent review by counsel of certain allegations of Garda misconduct, or inadequacies in the investigation of such allegations, which have been made to me as Minister for Justice and Equality, or the...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (27 Nov 2014)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will appreciate that I have no direct role in the procedures concerned which are an operational matter for the Garda authorities. I am however informed by the Garda authorities that traffic collisions are investigated in accordance with Garda traffic collision investigation policy and that Garda Forensic Collision Investigators attend the scene of every fatal road traffic...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (27 Nov 2014)
Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will be aware, one of the primary functions of the Garda Commissioner under the Garda Síochána Acts, is to direct and control An Garda Síochána. In this regard, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of all resources, including fully sworn members and Reserve Gardaí, among the Garda Regions, Divisions and Districts. Garda management...