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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I was at a social welfare committee meeting before I came in here. That is why I was delayed. Many issues have been covered. The key issue has just been touched on again, and that is why all these people are in prison and whether prison is something we inherited and just continue or whether it is actually delivering what it is meant to deliver. As far as I am...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Following on from that, I put in a parliamentary question. Over two years, there are 20-odd, but without knowing the circumstances, you cannot really give a judgment when the numbers get that small. Because of other work I do with prisoners, one of the other things I was interested in was how that compared to remands and bails in the North of Ireland, where bail conditions can be very...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, that is a problem.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: A figure of €300,000 was mentioned earlier for a programme. If the approach we take is that we have to build another 40 places for female prisoners and then another 40 and so on, it will cost a fortune to provide a solution that is actually the problem, not the solution.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As an aside, during the 1990s, I used to visit republican prisoners in prisons in England. I would often engage with the governors about things outside of the immediate issue I was there for. They told me that longer sentences were not producing better results and there were more people in prison. They had the exact same syndrome going on with more people in prison and longer sentences....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Alan Farrell: I welcome the discussion and I very much welcome the investment in people and places. It is very important that we diversify the option for the purposes of ensuring in the first instance that we can keep people out of tents in the city centre. That is an objective I think we all share in this House. I make the point to Deputy O'Callaghan that one does not necessarily need to be the local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the previous Deputy just mentioned, we have joined the EU migration pact and, obviously, there is a significant amount of planning under way to make sure we are ready to fully join the pact within the two-year timeframe when it becomes operational. As part of that, we are exploring, as we have been doing and investing in recent years, new and innovative ways in which we can expand our...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Alan Farrell: 15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the progress of body-worn cameras for gardaí, and related pilot schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37608/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Alan Farrell: I wish to ask a question regarding the pilot scheme for body-worn cameras for members of An Garda Síochána who are policing our streets. As has been said many times, they are the only group of individuals at events, protests, etc., in the city centre and other places who are not filming. I ask the Minister to update the House, please.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: It has always been my view that members of An Garda Síochána should have access to and be wearing body-worn cameras for two very clear reasons. First, I believe it helps in keeping them safe. As the Deputy rightly said, it is important they have that ability to capture an incident as it occurs and have a real picture as to what happened as opposed to an edited or potentially...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. She can pick it up in her next response.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: It is so important that the pilot is finished and these are rolled out right across the country for all the reasons I have acknowledged.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Alan Farrell: That is very positive to hear. I am sure my colleagues and I, particularly those of us on the justice committee, will be very pleased to hear that this investment has been so effective, even during the relatively short period in which these trials have been taking place. There is no doubt about the arsenal of options that members of An Garda Síochána should and do have as a result...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Garda hopes to have that analysis done by the end of the year and then, obviously, it will look to what will be needed beyond that. The new digital evidence management system has to be developed to be able to back up all of this information. It is a huge amount. We have a budget of €155 million for ICT alone this year. That is assisting in the development and roll-out of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am keeping the Minister to the time to get people in. I call Deputy Farrell.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Alan Farrell: I do not really have anything to add other than that I very much welcome the opportunity to assist the Minister and An Garda Síochána in ensuring this matter receives the right attention and that this trial scheme that has been established is a success. The Minister might clarify in her final reply as to whether there have been any instances of failures across the three divisions...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Helen McEntee: I believe these will be a game-changer. In the short space of time in which we have seen them rolled out, the positive feedback has been exceptional. I have had no negative feedback. There have been no incidences that I have been told about or made aware of where cameras have not worked or have been defective. They are very different, however. Some of them can actually show the picture...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Question No. 16 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are almost out of time. Deputy Donnelly might put his question; he will not get in a second time.