The Minister's main areas of responsibility include: • Implementing government policy and proposing new policy on crime, immigration, asylum, criminal and civil law reform and the criminal justice system in general. • Implementation of government policy and proposing new policy in relation to national security (an area many countries assign to a separate 'Home' or 'Homeland Security' minister) • Control and reform of the
Garda Síochána • Pardons (which are formally given by the President on the binding "advice" of the government, after proposal by the Minister for Justice - a rarely used power) • Implementation of core elements of the
Good Friday Agreement. ==List of office-holders==