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Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: No, Deputy. It is not just coming onstream. The €4 million has not yet come on stream because €5 million came onstream between October and December of 2013.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: That €5 million, as I have said earlier, was fully spent in the acquisition of vehicles. Those vehicles are in the course of currently being fitted out and distributed to the various districts. On top of that, there is a further €4 million. I would have previously mentioned that there has been very substantial investment in the Garda fleet. In effect there has been...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I want to reply to the Deputy on that point. I do not come into this committee and tell porkies.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: From a religious perspective, porkies are the last things I would be tempted by.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: The temptation was too much.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I promise the Chairman we will not ham it up any more than that.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I do not have that figure but I can have it communicated to the Chairman. It depends on the model of the car - they are not all cars - and the nature of the vehicle. It can be anything between €3,000 and €5,000 but I will confirm it to the committee.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I join the Deputy in paying tribute to the personnel there. They play an important role. It is a matter for the Garda Commissioner when to deploy that part of the service based on operational assessments. There are occasions when it is required and other times when it is not. It is a broader issue in the context of the overall policing strategy. The question is how best to use the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: The benefit of being Minister in two different Departments is the connectivity with the defence side and the Garda Síochána on this side. The Deputy is looking at maintenance expenditure and a substantial amount of that expenditure is taken up on the defence side. When we come to the defence Vote, some of it deals with the Garda Síochána helicopter service, although it...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I note the Deputy's concern and I appreciate his comments.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: GoSafe.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: Looking under appropriations-in-aid, safety cameras are listed along with certain receipts from fixed charges. What normally happens is that we assess how much comes in, the cost of it all and it is dealt with in a readjustment at the end of the year because it cannot be predicted. One assesses how much comes in, what is the cost of it all and then it is dealt with in a readjustment at end...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I have said it before but am happy to repeat again that I very much appreciate the work done by the committee in this area. The report produced was excellent. It followed along the route of the reforms that we want to implement. Some of the issues I referenced earlier were also referenced in the committee's report and are ones which the committee was very anxious we address. I appreciate...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: The in-cell sanitation programme has been completed on wings A, B and C. The works required in D wing will be undertaken this year. By the time we get to mid- or late 2014, there will be in-cell sanitation throughout the prison. The work that the Deputy should have seen when he was there will transform the prison. For completeness, I will also deal with Cork Prison. I visited Cork Prison...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: Through the Chair, the State Claims Agency deals with the claims for the most part.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am not sure I have that to hand, Chairman, but we can furnish the information to the Deputy. That is the overall global figure that will be usual in the context of the Estimates.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy may be aware that under existing legislation going back to the Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989, there is an obligation on the courts to ensure when hearing family cases, for example separation cases or cases in relation to children, that they sit on different days or at different times from other sittings. This has applied from that time to separation cases....

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: That relates to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal will effectively have a civil division and a criminal division. It is anticipated that the civil side of the Court of Appeal will sit in the Four Courts and the criminal side will sit in the new modern criminal court complex. There is work being done on that. The Courts Service is involved in looking at these issues and, of course,...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Department of Justice and Equality (Revised) (29 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: In the context of the plans for Limerick, the Part 9 application was omitted on 15 November. Agreement has been reached with the Prison Service about a ground-level link between the courthouse and the prison and that is included in the plans. The funding for the project is part of the PPP investment package of projects that were announced some time ago. While matters are developing, it...