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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: The National Crime Council did a report on this issue in 2007 and recommended community courts in Ireland. We did some work in the justice committee a number of years ago as well. Basically it means that somebody is in before the courts the following day and there is no delay whatsoever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: Quite often the person is also interacted with in a different way to prevent them from getting into this. Not just punishment but other work is done to see what is going on. We need police around the place as well. Will somebody comment on the scanners as a matter of interest? I noticed that some shops in the north of England are now getting rid of them because the scanners were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: Mr. Fee is saying that the actual losses from the scanners would potentially negate what savings he would make by reducing staff numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: We are talking about €1.6 billion of a loss. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the witnesses very much. This is very interesting. Earlier, they spoke about the escalation from very small stuff to people perhaps getting injured or killed. I draw attention to the youth justice strategy, which I put together when I was in the Department of Justice. It is up and running, and I want to make the witnesses aware that it is there specifically to stop young people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: Have Mr. Dunne or Mr. O'Driscoll come across the community safety partnerships?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I will finish on this, if I may. Will the representatives give some feedback on the issue of community courts at Red Hook and midtown in New York, if they look at it? Those courts certainly got in early and there was an immediacy with respect to the reaction to people being arrested and charged. They are in the courts the following day. It is just something we might-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: The National Crime Council had it.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I will be brief because a lot of ground has been covered. I agree with Deputy Ó Cuív, and as I said here last week, we have got to approach this in two ways. There is the immediate and what we can do now but then there is the longer-term stuff. If we focus on the long-term stuff we will still be here in five years' time. A lot of progress has been made with education and we got...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I want to make just one other point and then, unfortunately, I must run. Deputy Ó Cuív is right. He has been talking about the planning legislation before the Houses at the moment, and using it as a vehicle to make changes. He is also right, as I said myself last week, about the proposal to establish a national independent Traveller accommodation agency. It will have to be set...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: There is an opportunity to do it now. It will need primary legislation anyway and we have a vehicle that we could use that is going through right now. There may be other barriers and reasons it cannot and should not happen that I do not know about at this stage but there is an opportunity to bring it into the conversation and to bring it into the legislation, which is at a pretty early...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: It could set in train a mechanism to establish this agency pretty quickly, rather than waiting until we go through everything else. That is just a thought. Unfortunately, I need to go. I wish everyone a happy Christmas.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, for being here to debate it with me. It is eight weeks yesterday since the awful devastation occurred in my town, Midleton, where shops and homes were badly damaged. Floods, the like of which were never seen before in the region, caused devastation. This evening in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: I understand that the Minister of State is only standing in for the Minister and that he did not write this reply. He probably has nothing to do with it and he is only reading out the script, as I have done myself on many occasions when I was in that position. It is disappointing that there is not an indication on how much has been requested by the council. Perhaps the Minister of State...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (13 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which older people who have a right of residence in a property that they do not own or that does not involve tenancy or lease agreements can be assisted to improve insulation through the various energy upgrade schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55739/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: 52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way he is supporting Coillte in its new Forestry Strategy and Strategic Vision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55638/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he is supporting youth clubs and youth services nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55806/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline his policy with respect to youth services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55808/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Constitutional Amendments (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: 254. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on plans to hold a referendum on the Unified Patent Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55887/23]