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- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: I think Ms Carroll would like to come in.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: What is Ms Carroll's request?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: Perhaps the committee could write to the Minister for Justice today to make that recommendation. Has Mr. Carroll a figure for the cost of that?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: That is very good. That was a concrete issue that struck me straightaway. I was struck when Ms O'Shea said that the relationship between the mothers and the children was poor. The work that Barnardos has done has brought awareness to that and helped. We are talking about intergenerational impacts. It is hugely positive and something we should act on straightaway. I know Mr. McDonagh...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: I wish him the best into the future. He talked about going back to prison to deliver training and so on, which is a great idea. I have seen this in action. It is amusing when you see people role-playing like that but it is extremely effective and impactful. It works. What is Mr. McDonagh's request of the Government? I ask him the same question I asked Ms Carroll.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: That makes sense. That is something else we could do straightaway. We can try to make that happen and go for it.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: It would make a massive different if that were done.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: I have seen the work that the Traveller Mediation Service does. I have been there and seen it, and it is so impressive.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: Other issues that have come up include discrimination and racist language, a robust complaints system, stigma and so on. The role of the Inspector of Prisons also arose. A bit of work is required but it could be done pretty soon. The director of prisons is next door at the moment at another meeting dealing with drugs. I attended that meeting before I came here. I think she would be...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: From my interaction with them in the past, I am sure that is something to which they would be amenable.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: As a committee, we could engage with them straightaway and make that point. From my dealings with them in the past, I am sure they would be proactive in that regard.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: It would be better if a complaints system was not needed at all and if we got in at an earlier stage. I am always fearful of a complaints process because there is confrontation and complaints. It would be good not to have the need for it but I recognise it is important. My focus would be to go before that and change the culture, as was said. It also strikes me that Travellers, in my...
- 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.