Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 January 2022
1264. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice the current number of live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by her, in tabular form; and the date by which each study, review and research is scheduled to be completed. [1557/22]
View answerI wish to advise the Deputy that the table below lists the live studies, reviews and research undertaken or commissioned by my Department, and included the scheduled completion date of each.
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Study/Review/Research |
Scheduled Completion Date |
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Public Consultation on updating the Discount Rate. |
Policy proposals under consideration by Minister. |
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Review of Defamation Act 2009. |
Report of Review to be brought to Government shortly with a view to its publication thereafter. |
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Review of personal insolvency legislation. |
Q1 2022 |
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Study on Familicide and Domestic Homicide Reviews (established May 2019). |
Q1 2022 |
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Benchmarking of ‘No Excuses’ sexual violence awareness campaign. |
Q1 2022 |
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Benchmarking of intimate image abuse awareness campaign. |
Q1 2022 |
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Mapping exercise of the current provision of training for members of An Garda Síochána, legal professionals, front line staff and others who are engaging with victims of sexual crime and vulnerable witnesses in a professional capacity (Supporting a Victim’s Journey). |
Q1 2022 |
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Rapid Evidence Review: Understanding reoffending – Push factors and preventative responses. |
Q1 2022 |
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Programme for Government Review of policy options for prisons and penal reform. |
Q1 2022 |
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Policy review of the General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Community Sanctions) Bill 2014. |
Q1 2022 |
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Health Needs Assessment of Prison Population Report. |
Q1 2022 |
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The High Level Review Group to consider the role of An Garda Síochána in the public prosecution system. |
Q1 2022 |
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Public Attitudes Survey to measure public views and experience in a range of relevant Department of Justice areas. |
Q1 2022 |
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Anti-Social Behaviour: to map out how anti-social behaviour has been defined (recognising it is a contested concept) and map out interventions and their effectiveness. |
Q1 2022 |
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Approaches to the Concept of Parental Alienation in other jurisdictions. |
Q1 2022 |
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Review of Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes. |
Q1 2022 |
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Review of the Processing of Sexual Offences: Stakeholder Experiences |
Q1 2022 |
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The OECD has been engaged to carry out an evidence-based research project to assist the Judicial Planning Working Group in its deliberations. The aim of this research project is to provide an evidence-based view of the experiences of other OECD jurisdictions in regard to judicial resource requirements and to make recommendations as to how Ireland should resource its judiciary. |
Q1 2022
As this report is commissioned from the OECD, its publication date may be impacted by any necessary verification or pre-publication requirements of that body. |
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Annual 'Year in Review' report on the overall issue of cyberbullying, cyber hate, and online harassment, conducted by the Research Observatory on Cyberbullying in conjunction with the commencement of the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act. |
Q1 2022, Q1 2023, Q1 2024 |
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The Review of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017. |
Q2 2022 |
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Review of the operation of the provisions of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 as they relate to guardianship of children whose parents are neither married or in a civil partnership. |
Q2 2022 |
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Scoping Paper on Longitudinal Analysis of People who Offend. |
Q2 2022 |
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An evidence review of Behavioural Economics in the Justice Sector. |
Q2 2022 |
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Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) / Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) in the area of litigation costs to the State: this aims to identify and cost alternative models for litigation. |
Q2 2022 |
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Independent Review of the Offences Against the State Acts. |
Q2 2022 |
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Evaluation of Joint Agency Response to Crime (JARC) ACER Regional Sites. |
Q3 2022 |
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Evaluation of Joint Agency Response to Crime (JARC) ACER Initial Sites (Dublin). |
Q3 2022 |
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Exploring the experiences of International Protection Applicants (and other stakeholders) of access to the labour market. |
Q3 2022 |
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Review of enactments providing for the imposition of minimum mandatory sentences in accordance with Section 29 of the Judicial Council Act, 2019. |
Q4 2022 |
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Evaluation of the Garda Youth Diversion Projects. |
Q4 2022 |
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Sexual Violence Survey: to measure the prevalence of sexual assaults and the experiences of victims of sexual assaults. This is being run by the CSO, but is being supported by the Department and there is a joint oversight group. |
Q2 2023 |
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Evaluation of the Local Community Safety Partnership Pilots over 3 sites. |
Q4 2023 |
The following revised reply was received on 10 March 2022.
This PQ was answered with an omission regarding the Abhaile Governance Review detailed below, which I believe should have been included.
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Study/Review/Research |
Scheduled Completion Date |
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Governance Review of Abhaile |
Q1 2022 |
