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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: Part of the issue, however, is that even if we are standing still as prison numbers increase, there will be greater pressure on the probation officer teams who are there. I was looking at numbers going back six or seven years, but while the figure has not decreased in the past few years, that has to be looked at in the context of an increasing prison population.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (24 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the recent announcement that exhumations are to take place in Mountjoy Prison to recover the remains of executed prisoners buried on site, if his Department will commence, as per its powers under the National Monuments Acts, a similar scheme of exhumations to take place at Kilmainham Gaol. [3104/24]

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: We have spoken a lot about genocide. It is important to underline that genocide turns on intention to kill or destroy. It is not about the numbers, the method used or the time it takes to happen. Before the current brutal phase of this long conflict, we saw the brutality of the occupation, with settlement building by Israel in contravention of international law, land confiscations, land...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (18 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds exported before completing at least one official trial whose year of birth was 2021 and 2022, respectively as recorded on RCETS with a breakdown in that number between those registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland and those registered to owners normally resident in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (18 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds exported after completing at least one official trial whose year of birth was 2021 as recorded on RCETS, and 2022, respectively as recorded on RCETS, with a breakdown in that number between those registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland and those registered to owners...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (18 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds rehomed before completing at least one official trial whose year of birth was 2021 as recorded on RCETS and 2022, respectively as recorded on RCETS with a breakdown in that number between those registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland and those registered to owners...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (18 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds rehomed after completing at least one official trial whose year of birth was 2021 as recorded on RCETS and 2022, respectively as recorded on RCETS with a breakdown in that number between those registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland and those registered to owners...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 403. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform given the recent announcement that exhumations are to take place in Mountjoy Prison to recover the remains of executed prisoners buried on site, if his Department will commence a similar scheme of exhumations to take place at Kilmainham Gaol. [1687/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...the issue of barriers in society and the ableist structure of society. I had it in my head to say the barriers and challenges of our ableist society. but barriers alone is perhaps a more appropriate way of saying it. A lot of these are very external to the individual. The coercive and destructive nature of that ableist society has been well ventilated, and there are concerns about it in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Patrick Costello: Dublin 8 in the south west inner city has a population of about 50,000 people but not a single playing pitch. Sites have been identified at St. Teresa's Gardens and Marrowbone Lane but so far, Dublin City Council has not delivered. An interim solution was agreed in 2017 but that has not progressed at all. Dublin City Council, the LDA and various developers are involved in the area but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Patrick Costello: I welcome the Minister. She mentioned earlier the graduated response the Garda uses. The Commissioner used that term as well, but surely the beginning of any graduated response should be prevention. Particularly when dealing with groups that are deliberately organising, the prevention should be looking at and dealing with them. The Minister says that there have been 800 protests this...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Patrick Costello: My experience of CAMHS is mostly as someone referring people to them. My biggest frustration was, to be blunt, the gatekeeping that happened a lot. If there was a suggestion of substance abuse, CAMHS would shut down and not take the person. Where there was a suggestion of disability, CAMHS would shut down and not touch the case. Ms Grogan made the point that people who are engaged with...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (6 Dec 2023)

Patrick Costello: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a requirement to provide type 2 charging connections at all EV charging hubs in the State with a particular reference to service stations on or just off motorways. [53968/23]

Children (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to ensure all those who should be provided with the benefits of privacy in relation to offences committed as a minor do in fact receive such protection. The Children Act 2001 was very important legislation. It introduced a range of very positive reforms and protections for young people before the courts. It helped...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: In the last few days, we have seen all of these things and more around the country. In Buncrana there are reports of community organisations coming together essentially to have vigilante patrols. In Dromahair there were checkpoints set up. Cars were being stopped. People were being interrogated, and there was demanding of ID. We saw that down in Inch as well, where protesters boarded a...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: The Minister of State talked, in his opening statement, about additional prison numbers. There has been some criticism of the growing number of short sentences, and how these do not really impact in terms of recidivism and can cause more problems in their own right. Surely, instead of trying to drive more budget into the prisons, what we should be doing is trying to find ways of reducing...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: In relation the Courts Service, I note there is a carryover for capital expenditure. We have spent a lot of time in this committee talking about courthouses and the need to invest in them. I have been asking that since I got in here in 2020. It is a giant hole in the ground that should be a family court. I have spent a lot of time talking about family courts and their importance. To put...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland is compliant with the European Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP of 8 December 2008 in relation to checks on US military at Shannon Airport on goods destined for Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50301/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (16 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is carrying out checks at Shannon Airport on US military vehicles which are stopping off enroute to Israel and other jurisdictions; if so, the number that have taken place in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50300/23]