Written answers
Thursday, 7 March 2024
Department of Justice and Equality
Courts Service
Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the number of prosecutions for dangerous driving where the charges were dropped due to a technicality in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [11324/24]
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, prosecutions are a matter for the Director of Prosecutions, who is fully independent in her functions under Section 2(5) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1974 (as amended).
As Minister I have no role in the operations, functions, governance or oversight of the Office of the DPP and am unable to provide any information or statistics relating to the Director's work as a result.
Additionally, management of the courts, along with related operational matters and logistical functions, are the responsibility of the judiciary and Courts Service, which are independent in exercising their functions under the Courts Service Act 1998 and through the separation of powers in the Constitution.
The Courts Service has a dedicated email address for the provision of information to members of the Houses of the Oireachtas: oireachtasenquiries@courts.ie.
To be of assistance I have referred the Deputy's question to the Courts Service for reply.
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