Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2023-12-13
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Helen McEntee (FG), Meath East

We take this matter seriously. Following from the Commission on the Future of Policing, the National Security Analysis Centre was established in the last number of years. The Commission on the Future of Policing also considered whether to recommend the creation of a separate agency with powers going beyond analysis and intelligence co-ordination to include, for example, a capacity to develop its own intelligence services. This was decided against. We have been guided by an extensive body of work. This was looked at and it was decided that it is not necessary. The new analysis centre under the Department of the Taoiseach involves my Department, An Garda Síochána, the Army and other cybersecurity networks as part of the overall centre.

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Sitting date: 2023-12-13