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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: The Letterkenny cathedral quarter group is working hard on the ground to develop the quarter for the town’s community, tourism and employment, but its members do not believe it is fitting into any of the boxes that would help it get grants and other funding. The Department has provided funding under the rural regeneration fund to purchase derelict properties in rural towns, but there...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: We continue to review all of our schemes to see how they can better fit what communities need. To be fair, of all counties, Donegal has received a lot from the rural regeneration development fund. I do not have the figure to hand, but areas right across the county have benefited significantly. The urban fund is specifically for large towns like Letterkenny. If I start distributing funding...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I would appreciate that. I have been engaging with the group in recent months. Its members are frustrated. They have been applying for different types of funding but their group has been unable to fit into the boxes they are looking towards. Although they are in a larger urban area, they are looking to the rural fund. Local authorities get funding for urban areas, but surely there should...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I am always happy to engage with community groups on trying to improve their communities. The group in question should speak to the local authority as well. The authority will have a great deal of information on particular funding. Sometimes, groups need to adjust what their projects are looking for slightly to match the schemes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Telecommunications Infrastructure (20 Jun 2024)

Telecommunications Infrastructure

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Telecommunications Infrastructure (20 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: 35. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the date of the last meeting of the mobile phone and broadband task force; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26606/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Telecommunications Infrastructure (20 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: Ireland's digital connectivity strategy is aligned with the EU digital decade targets and aims for all populated areas to be covered by 5G no later than 2030, but this is based on population coverage, which ignores 750,000 people who live in rural areas and cannot get 5G coverage. This does not have implications for just mobile phone coverage, but for 5G services and emergency services as...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Telecommunications Infrastructure (20 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: That has always been a challenge in rural Ireland. The most recent meeting of the mobile phone and broadband task force took place on 16 May. It was the first meeting under a new structure, wherein both State and industry task force members attend a single session of the task force. The agenda for the meeting included the standard updates by task force members on the status of their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

An Garda Síochána

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of gardaí for Cork city and county in May 2024; the number of gardaí in May 2023 for Cork city and county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26496/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I would like to find out from the Minister the number of gardaí available to police Cork city and county, how this number compares to this time last year and whether she feels this figure is adequate or if efforts are under way to ensure there are sufficient gardaí to police Cork city and county.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I would like to see more gardaí in Cork, as I would like to see more gardaí across the country. I want to see the numbers we have increase regardless of what the overall figure is now. As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the deployment of personnel. Having said that, the unprecedented allocation of more than €2 billion for 2023 and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: When the Minister opened by stating her view that she would like to see more gardaí, I felt it was going to be a case of, "O God, the numbers are going down", and she then confirmed that. The number of gardaí in the city has gone down from 705 to 670 and the county divisions have lost gardaí as well. We see this impact on the ground and it is a great source of concern for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: We find ourselves in a position across the country where we have approximately 1,000 fewer gardaí than we should have. This is because the impact of Covid-19 meant no new recruits went into the college in Templemore for two years. We had gathered momentum in the recruitment campaigns at that stage and they had been producing significant numbers of new members. We are only back to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Given that the numbers of gardaí in Cork have reduced, what efforts will be made to ensure there will be an increase in the numbers in Cork to fill these vacant posts and police the area adequately? We have seen that there are recruitment campaigns and that trainee gardaí are going through the process. Yet, in some of those campaigns, we have seen that the Commissioner has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: Competitions are run on an ongoing basis. Panels are developed and then positions are filled. Where new Garda members go or where serving members are redirected must be a matter for the Garda Commissioner. My job is to ensure the Garda and its members have the resources they need, the support they need and, as far as I can ensure it, that more people are going through Templemore to train...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024)

Questions Nos. 21 to 23, inclusive, answered with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Jun 2024)

Sentencing Policy

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: 24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has examined the community court approach operating in parts of the UK and US, with a view to possibly establishing a similar model in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26442/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: This question concerns a model of community court approach operating in the US and the UK, especially in midtown New York and Red Hook. When I was the chair of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, we did a lot of work on this issue. It proved to be very effective in dealing with low-level crimes, including misdemeanours, shoplifting and so on. It also had the backup of...