Crime & Justice

Tánaiste launches Irish Prison Service Strategic Plan 2016-2018

The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald TD, today published the Probation Service Annual Report 2015 and the Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2015.She also launched the Irish Prison Service Strategic Plan 2016 – 2018 and new websites for both Services...

Address by Minister Stanton at Inclusive Centenaries Conference Galway

Deputy President Ó Dochartaigh, Judge Bryan McMahon, Oireachtas colleagues, distinguished guests, colleagues and most especially those of you here, including children...

Tánaiste forwards Clarke Report to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and publishes Part I of the Report

The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald TD, has forwarded the report of the inquiry by Mr Justice Clarke under section 109 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 to Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission...

Tánaiste and Minister Stanton welcome significant progress on Direct Provision and supports for asylum seekers

The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald TD and the Minister of State for Equality, Migration and Integration, David Stanton TD have provided a progress update on the Report of the Working Group on Improvements to the Protection Process, including...

Statement by the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Ms Frances Fitzgerald T.D - Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009

The House will recall that the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act. 1998 was enacted following the Omagh bombing in which 29 innocent people lost their lives at the hands of terrorists...

Tánaiste meets with European counterparts to discuss international cooperation on organised crime

The Tánaiste has met with a number of her European colleagues on the margins of the Justice and Home Affairs Council to discuss the current organised crime situation in Ireland and the international dimension...

Tánaiste meets with Minister for the Interior of Spain Jorge Fernández Díaz

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and the Spanish Minister for the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz held a bilateral meeting in the margins of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council in...

Joint Statement by the Tánaiste and the Minister for the Interior of Spain Jorge Fernández Díaz

The Tánaiste, Frances Fitzgerald TD and the Spanish Minister for the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, held a bilateral meeting in the margins of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg...

Tánaiste to discuss organised crime response with European colleagues

The Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald TD, is in Luxembourg today where she will discuss the organised crime situation...

Tánaiste accepts recommendation to give Ombudsman a role in prison complaints

Tánaiste and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said that the report of the Inspector of Prisons on the prisoner complaints system...

 

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September  4th,  2023

Increased use of speed detection cameras authorised by Minister McEntee and Garda Commissioner

December  29th,  2022

Minister McConalogue announces International Development Assistance funding of €28.9 million for 2022

December  28th,  2022

Department of Health and Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage announce €1m for initiatives to support the health and wellbeing of Ukrainian refugees

November  18th,  2022

Government announces commencement of tender process for iconic Narrow Water Bridge

November  16th,  2022

Digitisation of the 1926 Census

August  8th,  2022

Taoiseach releases white tailed sea eagle chicks in significant biodiversity initiative to restore a native and once extinct bird to Irish skies

August  2nd,  2022

Ministers Humphreys and O’Brien announce over €1.5 million for The Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Protestant Aid

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