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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans to enhance policing in rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8937/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: Recent media coverage of robberies, burglaries and assaults on women in rural areas creates widespread fear and insecurity, particularly for older people in rural areas. We can only provide reassurance when the gardaí are given the resources. I accept we cannot have a garda at every crossroads but we need a visible community policing presence across the country.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I welcome the fact that 800 new gardaí will be recruited. How many of these will end up in Roscommon, Longford, and Mayo? As I raised with the Minister for Justice before Christmas, we have had occasions when in half of County Roscommon only one member of An Garda Síochána has been policing an area from Ballyleague on the Longford border to Ballinasloe on the Galway border....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Garda units in the districts across this large division have gone from units of seven and eight members to units of three and four members. We have had instances where only one member of An Garda Síochána has been available for a large district. That is the reality and that is what is happening on the ground. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality produced...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Protection (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps which she is taking to restrict the right to be forgotten under the general data protection regulation, GDPR, by convicted sex offenders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8375/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Protection (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: Those convicted in our courts of sexual offences against women and children are having their online records wiped away following requests to Google under EU privacy law. It is completely unacceptable, for the sake of the victims who have had to live with the consequences of those perpetrators' actions and any potential future victims, that court reports are being wiped away online. Those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Protection (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I accept the point made by the Minister, but the reality is that the court system is structured in such a way that convictions are published, decisions are made and judgements are given in public. Guilty parties should not be in a position where they can request and secure the erasure of this information. They are exploiting the privacy laws and this cannot be tolerated under any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Protection (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: With all due respect, telling people that they can appeal a decision when the information is already taken down is no good. The Minister sits at the table of the European Council of Ministers along with her colleagues. I ask her and her colleagues to provide clarification and direction to the technology companies across Europe on this. In terms of convictions for the assault and rape of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: Our electricity prices are among the most expensive in Europe, with Irish families paying, on average, €180 extra for electricity annually. This is partly as a result of Irish families being forced to subsidise the cost of electricity, grid connections and backup supplies for existing and already planned speculative data centres. The Government decided in 2018 to stop the practice...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I am referring to the existing system, not the pie in the sky one.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I remind members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off. This is important because it can cause serious problems for broadcasting, editorial and sound staff. For the purposes of the Official Report, I have been requested to identify members when they are called to speak. Members are requested to remove their face coverings when speaking to ensure their contributions are recorded...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for her opening statement. We will now consider the Vote, programme by programme, as per the briefing documents that have been circulated to members. The first programme is administration. On that, I know the Government has set a target, and the Minister has set a target within her Department, of ensuring that one fifth of staff can work remotely. She might give us an...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Minister might come back to us with the actual figures in regard to the staff who are working remotely at this point in time and circulate that to the committee. The next programme is pensions. As no colleagues have questions on the pensions programme, we will move on to the working age income supports.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister. I gave Deputy Ó Cathasaigh a little latitude. I ask members to go through the Estimates programme by programme because we are anxious to get through everything. Deputy Carey wishes to discuss the working age income supports.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: Deputy Joan Collins is next.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: We will wait until we reach that section, if the Deputy does not mind.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I am sorry. Fire ahead, Deputy.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: I do not believe that in principle there is a reluctance in the Department to facilitate supplementary welfare supports. I know the Minister is committed to ensuring this is as flexible as possible but the reality on the ground is different. The first thing I would ask her to do as a matter of urgency is to have a remote meeting with every community welfare officer in the country to relay...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: We will now move on to the programme of working age employment supports. We have invited the Minister to appear before the joint committee next week to deal with local employment services. Could she or her office come back to us on that invitation?