Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein)
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96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her plans to roll out a scheme of funding through her Department to assist community alert groups to install closed circuit television cameras. [33554/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am very conscious of the value that communities, especially rural communities, place on CCTV as a means of deterring crime and assisting in the detection of offenders.

I am happy to inform the Deputy that I have secured €1 million in Budget 2017 to begin a new round of funding for community-based CCTV schemes in line with the Programme for Government commitment to provide investment in CCTV systems. I am currently developing proposals so that arrangements will be in place early in 2017 whereby Community Groups can apply for relevant funding.