Maeve O'Connell (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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732. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when his Department will issue instructions to local authorities regarding the commencement of local community safety partnerships. [17298/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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A key principle of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland is that community safety requires multi-agency cooperation working in partnership with An Garda Síochána and crucially with communities themselves. The Commission's report recommended the establishment of national and local structures to bring together Departments and State agencies involved in harm prevention to promote community safety.

The Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024 provides for the establishment of this national infrastructure, central to which are Local Community Safety Partnerships (LCSPs) which will operate at each local authority level.

I commenced the Act in full, with effect from 2 April 2025. Now that the Act has commenced, I intended to make regulations under section 114 of the Act, providing for the establishment and operation of the Partnerships, as soon as possible.