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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...questions were tabled by the Deputies as the relevant statistical data had not been published since 2014. We know stop and search powers are regularly invoked and, occasionally, abused on the suspicion that an individual may be carrying drugs on their person either for consumption or sale. We know too that Garda personnel are reluctant to let these powers go and that this is a major...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 60: In page 95, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "(i) a local drug and alcohol taskforce,". We have had some brief discussion on this issue previously. The amendment seeks to add local drug and alcohol task forces to the definition of what constitutes a public service body under the Bill. As drafted, the Bill includes references to a vast range...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Marie Sherlock: I support the amendment. There have been drug and alcohol task forces in operation for almost 26 years in the communities most badly affected by serious addiction issues. The task force model is based on drawing in people from the community to come up with solutions for the community. Not including them in the list of bodies to be represented on the new community safety partnerships is a...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...of the specific purposes of this section, which does not impact on the membership of the local community safety partnerships, it should be noted that all of the listed bodies are represented on the local drug and alcohol task forces. As all Senators have done, I acknowledge the huge amount of work the task forces do. The role they have, the key work they have done and their impact on...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...members of the local authority, the HSE, Tusla, An Garda Síochána and the local authorities themselves. There will also be a representative from the community, who could be a member of the local drug and alcohol task force and, in addition, an education representative and a youth representative. There will also be a separate space for four more community representatives,...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I take that on board and understand it. The Minister is correct that there are not task forces in every area. It will be very specific. It is not always drugs and alcohol. It often has a much wider remit than only responding to drug and alcohol use because these exist within community infrastructure in general relating to many other issues within the community. Drug-related intimidation...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ..., section 104, to prevent me from adding this to the list of public service bodies for the purpose of section 3 in setting out the regulations. While the intention is not specifically to name drug and alcohol task forces as one of the mandatory groups, I have given a commitment to this House that I will engage with Senators and the various representative groups before the regulations are...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: .... I would love a timeline as to when she will look at the regulations as regards what they look like. Why are statutory organisations the only mandatory bodies? Let us forget about even drug and alcohol task forces for the moment. As regards community representatives, why is community in some framework not captured in the mandatory bodies?

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Shane Cassells: ...my own county that local councillors are extremely diligent in their duties not just when it comes to these meeting but regarding the very important work of the various subcommittees, such as the drugs task force, the community policing elements and traffic safety subcommittees. Local councillors are leading change. In our instance, Chief Superintendent John Dollard brings his entire...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...;na. There will be a representative of a youth organisation and one from education. There will be five representatives from community groups, including minority groups. As we have discussed before, that can include the drug and alcohol task force. Finally, there will be ten members who are not allocated. Thus there is the potential for up to 17 of 30 members to be local authority...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...or chief executive of a local authority? Amendment No. 79 seeks to insert a new paragraph into subsection (2)(c)(iii) which would provide that representatives of other local committees, partnerships and task forces, including local drugs and alcohol task forces and any other local structures working to enhance the lived experience within their communities, would be appointed to the CSPs....