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Young Carers: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward the motion on this important issue. The truth is that this State fails carers. We do not give them the support they need and deserve. We do not truly recognise that carers are not only providing an essential service to their own loved ones; they are also providing society with an essential service. The truth is that far too many carers are...

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: -----is that Fine Gael in particular has no principle left other than to oppose whatever position Sinn Féin takes. Sinn Féin continue to use any real opportunity we have to say that the bombardment of Gaza and the occupation, annexation and apartheid regime must end because that is the only viable route to peace in the Middle East. Not only that, we will be consistent in our...

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: The question which should be asked is what is in Ireland's interests. The route the Government is pursuing is absolutely not in Ireland's interests.

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the opportunity to take part in this debate on international security and trade. Of course, there are very particular dangers facing Ireland in respect of the international trajectory of trade policy, ones we must be very cognisant of and ones we must be very committed to addressing head on in a way that protects the very important FDI sector and recognises that we have paid a...

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Government is not expanding our horizons; it is narrowing our horizons. The Government is narrowing our influence to scope that is entirely condensed within the European Union, failing to recognise that Ireland's reach has gone and should go much further. That issue and the difficulty with all of that is that this tying us in to an EU policy framework now extends to a militaristic...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: We need to be clear. The previous Minister for Justice committed to ensuring that there would be at least one refuge in every county. In January, Cuan confirmed to me what the Minister has repeated here, namely that rather than delivering one refuge in both Cavan and Monaghan, the plan has changed to one centre between the two counties. That is not good enough, particularly when we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: The commitment was already given.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: It absolutely is. A career in An Garda Síochána has the potential to be a very fulfilling life experience. However, the difficulty is not people applying to join An Garda Síochána but, with due respect to the Minister, it is the intake capacity and the experience of some people who apply but who do not make it into Templemore - in other words, they have a negative...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: Government representatives have increasingly cited the increase in population as a rationale behind the increase in crime figures. For example, earlier this morning the Minister cited it as an explanation for the increase in the number of people offending while out on bail. Yet, we have a Government target that has 15,000 members of An Garda Síochána, a target that is nowhere near...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: 123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the training intake capacity for An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12801/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: Further to the previous debate, I hope the Minister will accept what I consider to be an absolute fact and that is we now have a clear and ongoing crisis in respect of Garda numbers and in particular Garda visibility within our communities. That crisis will not be addressed unless we substantially increase the training uptake capacity for An Garda Síochána. What measures does the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: To be clear, no one is suggesting that every bail application end with a remand order. Is the Minister satisfied with the extent to which adherence with bail conditions is monitored and enforced? I received another reply to a parliamentary question from the Minister on 25 February that revealed that, although people were suspected of committing more than 40,000 crimes in 2024 while on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: I will go back to the Minister's original response where he repeated figures included in the initial reply to the parliamentary question in respect of the most common offence types carried out by offenders who were on bail. He mentioned public order, drunkenness, theft from shops, possession of drugs for personal use and criminal damage, which accounted for 59%. Will the Minister outline to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: 116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions he will take to address the fact that the suspects for 40,348 crimes carried out in 2024 were on bail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12758/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: Many people were shocked - I certainly was - at the reply I received from the Minister that revealed that known suspects in 40,348 crimes carried out in 2024 were on bail. I submitted the question on the back of a number of high-profile instances where habitual offenders, including people who had repeatedly breached bail conditions, were subsequently convicted of very serious crimes. Will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: 114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will establish a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied), as mandated by the Dáil on two separate occasions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12757/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: This is my first opportunity to present oral questions to the Minister for Justice. I wanted my first question to be in respect of the case of Shane O'Farrell, with which the Minister is very familiar. The Minister moved a motion on the case previously, which was adopted by the House, calling for the establishment of a public inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Shane and the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: I agree entirely with the Minister that one person alone is responsible for the death of Shane O'Farrell, that being, Zigimantas Gridziuska. However, at the heart of this case is the indisputable fact that Gridziuska should have been imprisoned at the time of Shane's killing. He was in breach of multiple bail conditions set by multiple courts. He had been stopped on several occasions by...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: There are two distinct elements here. One is the recommendations of the scoping exercise report. I agree that we should look at all of those and perhaps there is a role for the justice committee in deliberating on whether those are achievable. Every recommendation ultimately comes down to whether the Minister or another Minister decides to accept them. One of the recommendations is that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Jury Service (20 Mar 2025)

Matt Carthy: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will introduce a payment for loss of earnings, childcare and others costs for those undertaking jury service, due to the impact on jurors of the failure to cover the costs incurred by jury service, given the highlighted impacts on jurors in reports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12802/25]