Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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256. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will establish a DNA database, given the passing of the relevant legislation in 2014; the issues that are causing the delay in the establishing this database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27524/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The laboratory facilities and IT infrastructure required to support the commencement of the new national DNA database are in place in Forensic Science Ireland, which is based in Garda Headquarters in the Phoenix Park.

The detailed and technical secondary legislation required to facilitate commencement of the 2014 Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act is currently being finalised with a view to having the database operational as soon as is possible.