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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (3 Jul 2025)

Niall Collins: The programme for Government commits to creating a transport security force. While this is a priority, responsibility for its establishment lies with the Department of Transport and the National Transport Authority. On 18 June, the Minister, Deputy O'Callaghan, met with the Minister for Transport to discuss the proposed transport security force. The Department of Transport is developing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I appreciate the recent steps to improve transport security, including the increased budget of over €11 million for a security presence through the Department of Transport, Operation Saul and the new public transport hubs. However, we have to keep moving on the commitment to establish a transport security force. In 2024 alone, over 4,200 complaints were received reporting incidents...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (3 Jul 2025)

Niall Collins: The Deputy is right that this is at the early stages and is in development. It is a priority, as I have outlined. The new transport force will have to interact with An Garda Síochána and that will be an operational issue for both organisations. It is primarily a matter for the parties involved to work out how they will operate the new system once the new transport security force...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (3 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I want to raise the issue of Garda numbers in Dublin West. Some 120 new recruits were attested overall in June and 74 were allocated to Dublin. According to local gardaí in my area, only four came to the Garda's K district. Of 150 new recruits in March, 98 were sent to the city centre and four to the K district. The K district consists of Blanchardstown, Cabra and Finglas and is one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (3 Jul 2025)

Niall Collins: We discussed at length earlier the whole issue of Garda recruitment. As the Deputy knows, it is a significant priority in the programme for Government to increase Garda recruitment by about 5,000 over the lifetime of this Government. We have made a very good and resounding start. Last month, in June, another 170 trainees entered Templemore, following on from 201 in March, the largest...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Probation and Welfare Service (3 Jul 2025)

Probation and Welfare Service

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Probation and Welfare Service (3 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to a Topical Issue raised on 19 October 2023, if he will outline the current total number of allegations of child sexual abuse involving any member of the Probation Service that he or his Department have been made aware of; if he has considered putting in place a non-adversarial redress scheme, if appropriate; and if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Probation and Welfare Service (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy McAuliffe for raising this question. I acknowledge his long-standing interest in this issue and his persistent raising of the matter, which is of significant importance. I have confirmed with my officials that there have been two historic allegations of child sexual abuse made in relation to staff of the Probation Service. Both relate to alleged incidents in the 1970s by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (3 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister. After the tragic and desperate loss of a lady of the calibre of Veronica Guerin, we have done a lot of good in her memory and name. CAB has been a hugely successful organisation and, as the Minister said, has been mirrored and copied in other countries. We must ensure any resource that CAB needs, it gets because it is an incredibly effective organisation. We see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I have had the honour of going to Walter Scott House to meet Superintendent Gubbins, who heads up CAB. I am very impressed by the work it is doing. Although Walter Scott House is a fine new building, I am aware that the work of CAB is expanding and I am conscious that the expansion of its numbers will require further facilities. My Department has submitted a proposal as part of the review...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (3 Jul 2025)

Erin McGreehan: It is good to hear that the Minister has been working on the commitment in the programme for Government. He mentioned the Bill that will come before the House. I reiterate it is important that we see a Border CAB unit looking at the Border region. It is not fair on law-abiding citizens and retailers that we have smuggling and illegal fuel coming across the Border. These are criminals...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I agree with Deputy McGreehan. One of the reasons many serious criminals from Ireland have left and gone further afield is because of the threat they were exposed to from CAB. That is a positive development. I want the Deputy to know there is no part of the country that is free from CAB's supervision or surveillance. In all communities around the country, CAB has initiated proceedings...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

Legal Aid

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an outline of the findings of the report of the civil legal aid review group, which has indicated that he has received the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36599/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Minister will know there is significant concern in the legal profession and elsewhere on the time it has taken for the civil legal aid review group to complete its work. I understand he has now received the report from that group. Can the Minister give us an outline of the findings of the report which he previously cited in response to me and could he give an indication of when that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy Carthy for that. As he stated, the civil legal aid review group completed its reports recently. In April, I received a majority report from the group and a minority report from former Chief Justice Frank Clarke. I had the opportunity to read both and am discussing within my Department how I will progress them. I am satisfied with the need to increase the thresholds...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: As the Minister may recall, my interest in this matter comes from several different angles but particularly as a result of work I have done with women, predominantly, who have sought protection or barring orders and have tried to secure legal representation under the civil legal aid entitlements but cannot get legal representation. The Minister told me this would be considered in the context...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

David Maxwell: Thank you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: What the Minister has described to me sounds like many further delays. For these women in particular, I want to know if this is going to be addressed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes, it will be addressed. When a very detailed report comes in - or indeed two reports; I have no objection to receiving majority and minority reports - it must be carefully considered. There is no point in me announcing I will implement the report and then people asking when this will be done and how that implementation will take place. As the Deputy will be aware, civil legal aid is...