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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)
Tommy Broughan: I wish to return to the point that was ably raised by Deputy Bobby Aylward about Garda resources. We recently had a joint policing committee meeting in the Dublin north-central area, at which meetings issues frequently arise about Garda resources. The Minister always tells me that it is a matter for the Commissioner, Mr. Harris, but if we are to return to a level of mandatory impairment...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)
Charles Flanagan: ...week in the context of the budget and the Financial Statement of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, that he had acknowledged the need for further resources and indicated that the Garda Vote for next year would be of the order of €1.7 billion, an increase on this year's allocation of €110 million. That will allow for some of the resource-based improvements...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)
Tommy Broughan: The Minister is aware that since the revelations of the breath testing scandal at the start of 2017, An Garda Síochána is still not publishing full statistics on the website around mandatory intoxicant testing checkpoints, MITS. The respective number of checkpoints and breath tests are not displayed. Since April 2017 I have been asking the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, about this...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)
Charles Flanagan: ...be seen as a strategic asset and a key factor in determining policing decisions. My Department is currently analysing the report and my officials are currently engaging in consultations with An Garda Síochána, the policing oversight bodies and the relevant Departments in order to inform my substantive response and the high-level implementation plan and project structure that I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)
Tommy Broughan: ...was in the Dublin metropolitan region, but the Minister did not give me any indication of the numbers of drug tests that had taken place outside that area. The point made by the Minister from the Garda report is very valid, that policing must be information and statistics led. The other major issue that arose in relation to this, and which I also raised with the Minister for...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drugs Crime (17 Oct 2018)
Charles Flanagan: ...issues as sought by the Deputy. I know that a number of outstanding parliamentary questions for written reply have not been dealt with in the manner the Deputy might expect. I am informed by An Garda Síochána that owing to the very specific and statistical nature of the data requested in many of the questions on road traffic enforcement, the compilation of such data is often...