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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traffic Fines (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of unpaid court-imposed fines in 2023; the percentage and monetary value of these that were imposed for traffic offences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26497/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traffic Fines (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: Will the Minister comment on figures for unpaid court-imposed fines and the efforts to collect those fines? I understand from different people that there are people who wish they would go away or make efforts to delay them and do not pay them in the possibility that they would be written off. I wish to get an understanding from the Minister on the numbers and the efforts to collect those funds.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traffic Fines (20 Jun 2024)

James Browne: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue around the amount of unpaid court-imposed fines in 2023. It is important to note that the principal penalty applied under the Road Traffic Act is a Garda fixed charge notice, FCN, combined with the imposition of penalty points. These measures provide an effective and appropriate enforcement response aimed at encouraging responsible driver behaviour...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traffic Fines (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State. This issue has been raised with me by a number of people, including representatives of disability groups and mothers with buggies who find, for example, a car parked, blocking the path or blocking a disabled parking space. This is pretty much sticking the finger up to the public. People will take whatever space they want. Even if a ticket is issued, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traffic Fines (20 Jun 2024)

James Browne: The outstanding amount was the amount at the time the figure was obtained. In that, there are people who were fined recently, with an expectation that they will pay. Fines are generally imposed in the District Court for minor offences. However, a small number of fines are also imposed in the higher courts. Once imposed, the Courts Service starts a process of communicating with the person...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traffic Fines (20 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: The idea of somebody going to prison is a last option. We would want to make every effort to ensure that does not arise. If there are penalty fines, efforts should be made to collect those funds and impose the penalty. Going back and forth in the courts must take up a lot of time and effort for the Courts Service, clogging up other cases it wants to deal with. Is there any indication of...

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The Minister has dealt with my first two points. Obviously, we need to see greater use of the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB. Locally, I have seen how it does fabulous work. It also means communities can see that action is being taken and we also need to see policing operations. Unfortunately, we are dealing with a large number of street drug dealers, and there is also the fact that the...

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

Catherine Connolly: Before the Minister comes back in I will call on Deputy Durkan.

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...