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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: I propose this will also serve as a response to PQs 21700/23 and 25642/23 previously raised by the Deputy, to which I had been awaiting observations from An Garda Síochána. Fear of harassment and violence should never be normalised and nobody should have to think about it as they go about their daily life. Combatting all forms of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency, is responsible for the compilation and publication of all crime statistics. The CSO produces these statistics using data recorded on An Garda Síochána’s PULSE system and makes regular releases under reservation in relation to various crime statistics. The CSO also continues...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, in accordance with the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including all operational policing matters. As Minister, I have no role in these matters, nor can I direct the Commissioner with regard to them. I am informed by the Garda authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including the procurement of protective equipment such as ballistic vests. As Minister, I have no role in such matters. I am informed by the Garda authorities that currently there is no tender...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: Under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including for the recruitment, training and deployment of Garda members. As Minister, I have no role in such matters. I am however assured that Garda management keeps the distribution of resources under continual review. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: The role of the Psychology Service in the Irish Prison Service is to deliver, develop and manage an integrated mental health and criminogenic needs assessment and treatment service for people in custody, in line with service plans and objectives, and within established professional standards, guidelines and policy. I am informed that the Prison Service currently employ various psychologist...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána. As Minister, I have no role in such matters. I am informed by the Garda authorities that they are unable to disclose details in respect of the Armed Support Unit, due to the impact on operational...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including the procurement of vehicles for the Garda fleet. As Minister, I have no role in such matters. I am advised by the Garda authorities that all Garda vehicles, including Garda Roads Policing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy is aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of Garda business, including the recruitment and training of Garda members and staff. As Minister I play no role in these independent functions. I have contacted the Garda authorities and have been advised that Public Order Operator Level 2 training is delivered at a Regional level within...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including the procurement of services required by An Garda Síochána to perform its function of keeping people safe. As Minister I have no role in these independent functions. However, to be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, in accordance with the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including all operational policing matters. As Minister, I have no role in these matters, nor can I direct the Commissioner with regard to them. The Government is also committed to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Investigations (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, all deaths in custody are notified to An Garda Síochána, who investigate where circumstances warrant, in addition to the inquest held in the Coroner's Court. The cause of death is determined by a jury on the basis of the information presented to the Coroner's Court. The Deputy may also know that all deaths in custody and deaths that occur within one...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including for operational policing matters. As Minister, I have no role in such matters. However, to be of assistance I sought the information requested by the Deputy from An Garda Síochána...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: The position in regard to applications for family reunification is set out in the Policy Document for Non-EEA Family Reunification,which is available on my Department's website. The policy, which was last amended in 2016, is currently under review. The policy document sets out the rationale for applying resource requirements as part of the overall assessment of whether to approve an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including for the recruitment, training and deployment of Garda members. As Minister, I have no role in these independent functions and am unable to seek to direct, or otherwise influence, the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: My Department has created a new website to provide a detailed overview of the International Protection process in Ireland which can be accessed at: www.gov.ie/en/campaigns/304ba-international-protection/ This site also provides detailed statistics and metrics in relation to processing of applications for protection. These statistics will be published on a monthly basis....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, for reasons of maintaining full confidentiality, it is not my Department's practice to comment on whether an application for international protection has been made in the State. An applicant for such protection status, or their legal representative, should contact either the International Protection Office (IPO) or the International Protection Appeals Tribunal...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 476, 477 and 484 together. As the Deputy will appreciate, I cannot comment on individual cases, however I can advise the Deputy that the Community Return Scheme is an incentivised early release scheme co-managed by the Irish Prison Service and the Probation Service whereby prisoners can be approved for reviewable temporary release coupled with a requirement to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 478 and 479 together. The International Protection Act 2015, at section 11, provides the conditions under which a person issued with a subsidiary protection declaration can be deemed to have ceased to be eligible for that status. I can advise the Deputy that there has been no cases where a person has had their subsidiary protection ceased due to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (27 Jun 2023)

Helen McEntee: As part of delivering on the actions contained in the Zero Tolerance Strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, I will bring forward a number of significant pieces of legislation in the coming weeks and months. This includes the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023 which will update sexual offences legislation. Provisions in the Bill will update the law...