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- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I thank the Senator.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Thank you, Deputy. Ms Brady, would you like to come in?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: The absolute last resort is to put a pregnant woman in prison. Thank you, Deputy Buckley. Over the summer, the Vice Chairperson, Deputy Ó Cuív, announced that he will not be running in the next election. As Travellers, we are very grateful for the work Deputy Ó Cuív has done for years, especially for Travellers in prison and people in prison in general. I do not...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Deputy Ó Cuív met a man in Castlerea who said he has been a long time on remand.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Are Travellers kept longer on remand than people from the general population?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: This shows the level of funding needed from the Department of Justice.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I have some questions that perhaps cannot be answered today because we are due to finish at 12.30 p.m. For us as a committee, it is not just about visiting halting sites and not taking any action. It is not just about going into the prisons and seeing the men and women and leaving it there. It has really opened up my eyes. In Castlerea Prison, Ms Costello said that we are not looking for...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I thank Ms Sweeney and everyone else so much. We will go back to being a little bit formal again. Would any members of the committee like to raise any other matters? No. We will meet again next Thursday, 3 October 2024, at 10.30 a.m., when we will have representatives with us from the Irish Travellers' Access to Justice Project, so the work continues. On 10 October 2024, then, at 10...
- 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...