Results 1-20 of 471 for speaker:Cathy Bennett
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: I welcome the Garda Commissioner and all the other witnesses. Gardaí play a vital role in all our communities, and I thank them for that. I have a few questions. I previously brought to the Garda Commissioner's attention the JPCs that were still not up and running around the country. They worked very well for councils and communities coming together in every area. What is happening...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: When are they happening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: The JPCs stopped a year ago and the other ones are not up and running yet. One was supposed to replace the other.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: It is important that communities, councillors and gardaí are on board together. It is a good communication system in each county, and I say "Well done" for all the work on the JPCs. In 2023, An Garda Síochána spent €2.9 million on a construction project for a new station to be built in Bailieborough. The expected spend for the lifetime was supposed to be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: Is there still €7 million in the pot for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: Is there enough to finish it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: I have an issue with that. Sometimes, I see the vans. A company has been hired. I think GoSafe is the company that does it. I have an issue, in that, the vans are parked in the most obscure places where they are trying to get people who are just doing 30 or 40 mph. If this is supposed to be "go safe", is it not about people speeding in a 100 km/h zone or something like that as opposed to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: Why are they in a 50 km/h zone in preference to a 120 km/h zone?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: I know but my issue is that these speed vans are in places where traffic is travelling at a slow rate. It is never on the motorway.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: That is okay. I thank the Commissioner. How much was paid for that GoSafe service in 2024?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: That is up significantly from 2022 and 2023. In 2023, it was only €7.9 million. Why was there an additional cost there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: There were additional hours to get more money in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: That is fine. With regard to the ongoing conflict in Palestine, the Commissioner will be aware of media reports of certain civilian airlines carrying weapons of war or components bound for Israel in support of the genocide of the people of Gaza. My understanding is that it is illegal to do this without the permission of the Minister for Transport and so it effectively would amount to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: The Garda has never checked any of these airlines to see?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: I will ask about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. This has been going on for 51 years. The Garda has not been able to release documents for some reason. Is that an issue relating to funding or is something else going on that the Garda has not been able to release those documents? The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland is also now on the job trying to get those documents. Why have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: There was a mutual assistance agreement eight years ago but the documents still have not been produced. Am I correct in saying that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: I will come back in on the three minutes. I am sorry; I had a few more questions written down. It is okay, I will come back in. I thank the Garda Commissioner.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: I note that An Garda Síochána took in €31.39 million in fixed-notice charge receipts in 2023. That is quite a bit. Is that what was taken in for people speeding on the roads?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: The Commissioner said earlier that electric cars have been purchased. Are there fast chargers for them everywhere?