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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible, by law, for the deployment of personnel and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. Garda management keeps this deployment under review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities to ensure optimum use is made of available resources. I am advised by the Commissioner that Garda Juvenile Liaison...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to ensuring that An Garda Síochána has the resources it needs to fight crime. An Garda Síochána has been allocated unprecedented funding of over €2.35 billion for 2024 – this is a 25% increase since 2020. As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of Garda resources....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including the purchase, allocation, and effective and efficient use of Garda equipment. The Deputy will also appreciate that the Garda Commissioner is responsible for arranging for the training of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including the purchase, allocation, and effective and efficient use of Garda equipment. As Minister, I have no role in these independent functions. The Garda authorities have advised that there are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including operational policing matters. As Minister, I have no direct role in these independent functions. I made enquiries with the Garda authorities who have advised that the information...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána and for the investigation of alleged crime. As Minister, I have no role in these matters. Traffic Watch is a partnership approach to reducing the number of road collisions and fatalities. It brings road users, An Garda Síochána, the National...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including the distribution of Garda members between the different Garda units and Divisions. As Minister, I have no role in such matters. I can, however, assure the Deputy that the Government is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, my Department established the Community Safety Innovation Fund in 2021. The fund uses the money seized by An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau as the proceeds of crime to fund new, innovative community safety projects. The fund increased from €2 million in 2022 to €3 million last year and I was delighted to see it increase again...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may know, it is an offence to make a false report to the Gardaí. Under section 12 of the Criminal Law Act (1976), a person who knowingly makes a false report or statement that an offence has been committed, or who knowingly makes a false report or statement relevant to enquiries by An Garda Síochána causing their time to be wastefully employed, shall be guilty of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...broken down in the table below. Length of Time Suspended Number Of Staff Suspended Between 3 & 6 Months 1 I am further informed by An Garda Síochána that there are 90 members currently on suspension and in receipt of suspension allowance, which is equal to full pay. This information is further broken down in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...Violence Act 2018 provides for the offence of coercive control. I understand that the issues raised in the correspondence referred to by the Deputy relate to the handling of a particular case by An Garda Síochána and the Courts Service rather than the legislative provisions involved. As Minister for Justice I am acutely aware of the need for vulnerable victims to be supported...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: I understand that Parliamentary Question No. 905 of 9 April 2024 refers to the number of Gardaí, by rank attached to each protestor removal team within DMR, in tabular form. As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including for the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including Garda training. As Minister, I have no direct role in these matters. I am informed by the Garda authorities that the HGV training course is considered to be a specialised programme and is only provided...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including for the recruitment, training and deployment of Garda members. As Minister, I have no role in such matters. The Government is committed to ensuring that An Garda Síochána has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána under section 26 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), which includes all operational policing matters. As Minister, I play no role in these independent functions. I am informed by An Garda Síochána that the locations of the nine...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Official Engagements (2 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...CTA. There is extensive engagement and cooperation at all levels between my Department’s officials and their Home Office counterparts, as well as significant operational cooperation between the Gardaí, UK policing services and the PSNI. This strong practical engagement and cooperation serves the mutual interests of both Ireland and the United Kingdom, and will continue. As...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (2 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: I am advised by the Garda authorities that under the Garda Station Rationalisation Programme of 2012 and 2013, 139 Garda Stations were closed nationwide, and the buildings handed back to the OPW. To date, no other Garda Station has been officially closed by the Garda Commissioner. Of the 139 stations closed, the following eight stations are being held by the Office of Public Works on behalf...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (2 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...full effort and cost, beyond the physical cost of producing the card itself, in processing registrations. This includes, among other things, the significant staffing costs incurred by my Department and An Garda Síochána, the costs associated with the public offices at which the activity is carried out and the costs of information technology associated with the registration...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (2 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...further investigation or inquiry beyond those already carried out. The report also finds that no inquiry is necessary into the systems and procedures for the sharing of information between An Garda Síochána, the Courts Service and other relevant State bodies operating at the time of Mr. O'Farrell's death. The Judge makes a number of important recommendations on suspended...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...at Thornton Hall. In addition, a Prison Overcrowding Response Group has been established, with officials from across the Department, the Irish Prison Service, Probation Service, Courts Service, and An Garda Síochána this group is continuing to examine proposals to address overcrowding.