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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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt the British Government has a lot of questions to answer, and I think most people believe it does not want to answer them because of the extent of British state collusion with the people who carried out the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and, indeed, other massacres carried out by the Glenanne gang. The Irish Government, however, has very serious questions to answer as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I appreciate that this has been for a long time extremely difficult for the families. In many of the Deputy's questions he has sought information as to why no Garda files relating to this case at all can be given to the families. This is an open case. This is still an open file. This is information the Garda has relating to an ongoing case. Irrespective of whether it is something as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That sounds like the families will never be given the files, will never be given an explanation and will never get the truth and justice they deserve. It is shocking beyond belief that the families and survivors of this atrocity were put under Garda surveillance. They are entitled to know who ordered that, what files were generated on foot of that and why it was done. The original...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: What has been made very clear is that the Garda is engaging. In fact, as regards the structures that needed to be put in place to allow the Garda to provide information where it could not with the ongoing investigation, those measures were implemented and changed in order that gardaí could provide the information they have. It has been made very clear to me that the information is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Question No. 6 taken with Written Answers.

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

Local Community Safety Partnerships

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

David Stanton: 7. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects that local community safety partnerships will be established across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26441/24]

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

David Stanton: I want to give the Minister an opportunity to update us on the local community safety partnerships, how the pilots are getting on and when she expects to be able to establish them across the rest of the State.

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

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputy for his ongoing interest in the development of the local partnerships. The Government's community safety plan is about people being safe and feeling safe in their own communities, and both of those are equally important. At the heart of this policy is the principle that every community has the right to be safe and to feel safe in order for individuals and communities to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Restorative Justice (20 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. The mission statement of An Garda Síochána is to reduce crime, the causes of crime and also the fear of crime. Restorative justice can tick all those boxes but a recent study demonstrated referral statistics for restorative justice remain at pre-pandemic levels, excluding restorative cautions which have been delivered by An Garda...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Restorative Justice (20 Jun 2024)

James Browne: The Probation Service will soon publish a three-year restorative justice action plan aimed at promoting greater awareness and supporting increased use right across the system. This plan will detail how the Probation Service will further drive the integration of restorative justice into all its services. Restorative justice is really important. We did some very good work back in the 1990s...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Restorative Justice (20 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: Studies around the Commonwealth system in particular show restorative justice, where properly implemented, has a satisfaction rating for both sides of up to 90%. We all know in District Courts around the country there is an almost ad hoc system where solicitors get together with representatives of the other side and do it on a casual basis. If there was a formalised system in place to deal...