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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I strongly agree with the sentiments that were expressed by the Minister and the last speaker. I congratulate An Garda Síochána for its successes in this area. However, for every success, there is growing evidence of an extension of the drugs empire all over the place. It is the drugs empire that is feeding its own market in a way that ensures it has a steady income from that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The most important thing is that people know that crime does not pay, whether you are a drug dealer or involved in any type of crime. That is why the work of CAB is so important. Some of my changes will make it easier and quicker for CAB to confiscate, identify and disburse the proceeds of the crime it has confiscated. It will also help to prevent criminals from frustrating the system,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Question No. 12 taken with Question No. 5

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Gangland Crime

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commission a Mulvey-style report in relation to gangland activity in Dublin 15 and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26492/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I ask the Minister for Justice if she will commission a Mulvey-style report in relation to gangland activity in Dublin 15 and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: First, I assure the Deputy, as he has probably heard, that tackling serious and organised crime is a priority for me and An Garda Síochána. I am committed to ensuring that communities right across the country have the resources and supports that they need, and most importantly people are safe and feel safe. While it is welcome that serious attacks involving firearms have fallen...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I could not agree more with the Minister about what needs to be done in the long term in relation to this. Yet, unfortunately, at the moment, they do not have the resources. That covers every aspect of community activity. I have lived in Dublin 15 for the past 30 years and I have seen criminal gangs come and go. Unfortunately, we are in another age and era where there is a cycle of brutal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputy. It is important to say that work is ongoing but I appreciate that more needs to be done. If you look at the activity of An Garda Síochána - obviously there is a limited amount of information that can be provided - so far this year, between January and May, drugs valued in excess of €12 million were seized in that region. There were 106 seizures of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Community Safety Partnerships (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response and congratulate her on this work, which is very important. That she has got the Garda Reserve recruitment campaign up and running is a very positive move. She stated she hopes to have the community partnerships up and running across the State later this year. Are we talking about the autumn? Has the Minister considered the situation in my county,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Community Safety Partnerships (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: A number of measures had to be taken before the partnerships could be established, accounting for how the current three pilots have operated. I am establishing a national office for community safety, which will have the overarching objective of managing and, above all, supporting and delivering the objectives of the national strategy. There will be training, guidance and other supports for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Community Safety Partnerships (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response with respect to the size of counties and the idea of fora. At one stage, I was involved in five different joint policing communities and noted that local knowledge is very valuable. A lot of the work is at the level of bringing to the attention of the local authority that a streetlight is not working, for example. I am referring to low-level crime and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Community Safety Partnerships (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: Each partnership will be supported by a dedicated community safety co-ordinator, at administrative officer grade VII, and an administrator, at assistant staff officer grade IV. Both of these will be full-time positions. The individuals will be recruited through the local authority and they will provide the support. They will be full-time staff working on the ground in the office, wherever...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Community Safety Partnerships (20 Jun 2024)

Question No. 9 taken with Written Answers. Question No. 10 taken with Question No. 5.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Drug Dealing

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline Government plans to deal with the scourge of drugs and drug dealing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26449/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What are the Minister's plans to deal with the scourge of drugs and drug dealing? Could she make a statement on the matter? An all-of-government response is required but it is not an overplay to say this is a huge issue that is having an impact right across society. It is particularly difficult where it results in drug deaths and intimidation, particularly in working-class areas.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. He has done so consistently, particularly in his own area. He has also raised the need for us all to do more and actively deal with the threat posed to our communities, particularly young people, by organised crime groups and those who are buying, dealing and engaging with drug dealers. The Government is absolutely committed to ensuring that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It goes without saying that I doubt that anyone is going to stand up here and not support what have been some of the major seizures and operations against organised crime. Whether these operations are local or transnational, we want to see more – quicker, better and faster. There is nobody who does not want to see this. The problem, however, is the huge drugs problem that exists. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I agree. To reduce supply, we need to ensure we are working on an international basis and stopping the large shipments. What is clear is that the drugs seized are the tip of the iceberg, but obviously the more work the Garda can do, the more we will be seen as a country into which it is not easy to bring this level of drugs. There is work that can be done on a lower level by An Garda...