Results 1-20 of 52 for garda speaker:Duncan Smith

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...to use own resources for this work; and - in 2023 only a combined €135,000 was awarded under the regional and local roads programme to the four Dublin local authorities; recognises that: - additional Gardaí resources have been deployed to road safety policing, but more dedicated Gardaí are needed to ensure existing laws are enforced, and new measures from the Road...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank the Garda Commissioner and the assistant commissioner for coming in today. The first contribution focused on static cameras and the measures that are vitally important. I can attest personally to the success of the average speed camera in the Dublin Port tunnel, which got me a couple of points on my licence four years ago. It was a lesson well learned. It was twice in a week...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...today brought, in a collaborative fashion, a motion on road safety to the Dáil. We are all trying to reduce road fatalities in whatever way we can. Not all responsibility, as we know, is on An Garda Síochána. What is the overall number of Garda personnel in the roads policing unit at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: Many existing and important Garda duties, such as visibility in and around towns, schools, etc., are being carried out but could now be chalked down to ticking the 30-minute box for high-visibility roads policing. Does the Commissioner accept that there was an impression absorbed by the public this policing would include tackling the four killer behaviours by means of the use of speed guns...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing the Bus and Coach Industry: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...the much-delayed transport forum that was set down in the 2008 Act or is it a more informal forum being set up? Is it the view of the transport companies that we need a dedicated unit within An Garda Síochána for transport workers and the transport sector? If there is time, I would like to come back in with some other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing the Bus and Coach Industry: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...of an hour. It can be the same person or group but they know that the private security firms do not have any powers of arrest. There is a debate around whether we should use private security or gardaí. What is required is a multifaceted approach but the debate is in this space at the moment so I just want to speak to that. I believe there is a Garda solution that has to be part of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...can apply under a location of interest safety scheme and 55 did last year. There are 60 schemes this year. In the coming weeks, the RSA will be working with other agencies, including An Garda Síochána, on a submission to the Data Protection Commissioner, DPC, regarding legislation. What is the gap between what is happening on data sharing now and what is needed in legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...area where there is trouble. Ms Armstrong is a great example to show this is a problem on many services. I fully support having a transport police service, one which, ideally, would be part of An Garda Síochána, but I am not being prescriptive as long as there is a centralised authority.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...something that might happen in the summer on the DART line or the Dublin riots. They always come back and tell us they had an action on a weekend at the end of August where there were dedicated gardaí on the train line for the weekend or where An Garda Síochána responded quickly. They deflect and minimise an incident. However, the work done by SIPTU gives this committee...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...travelling at speeds at 228 km/h over the bank holiday weekend. This was one of approximately 3,000 motorists who were detected speeding that weekend. Over that weekend there was an increase in Garda resources and detections and that resulted in the high number of motorists being caught. That shows that if we have the resources, we will catch and apprehend people who are breaking the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (5 Dec 2023)

Duncan Smith: 205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of the issue surrounding the retirement of prison officers and Garda officers who are on a post-April 1995 pension, who are required to sign up for job seekers benefit for nine months following retirement from their respective services to receive their supplementary pension; if he plans to amends this so these workers...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (15 Nov 2023)

Duncan Smith: 60. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of the issue of Government employment contracts for Garda, fire services, and prison officers, that mandate retirement at 60 years, with no supplementary pension, despite these professions previously receiving a supplementary old age pension until reaching the State pension age; and if he will make a statement on the...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: ..., 24 October, we have seen an increase of 36 in the number of road deaths as compared with the corresponding date in 2022. We have also seen 31 more collisions in this timeframe according to An Garda Síochána. In May, I called on the Road Safety Authority, RSA, to be mandated to publish data on road traffic collisions in order to better inform Ireland’s transport strategy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Duncan Smith: The purpose of this meeting is for the committee to discuss all aspects of road safety. On behalf of the committee, I am pleased to welcome from An Garda Síochána, Ms Paula Hilman, assistant commissioner with responsibility for roads policing and community engagement, and Mr. Thomas Murphy, superintendent of the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau. I am also pleased to welcome...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Duncan Smith: The resourcing is the same and there is no difference between them. The Garda has enough testing capacity for both alcohol and drugs.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...the data provided. Does the Minister share the concerns expressed that an unidentified skull found off Lambay Island in 2006, which has been the subject of numerous news reports and appeals by the Garda, was omitted from the recent list of unidentified remains submitted by coroners and published by the Department? Does he agree that this omission shows the need for a new specialised task...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Duncan Smith: .... They think quite carefully but we can all see through it. Those watching certainly see through it and they know it when they see it. Much has been made of the policing. I listened to the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Drew Harris, talk about the policing strategy. It was reflected in two of the Ministers' comments today, that the Garda is playing a long game but there has to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (18 Apr 2023)

Duncan Smith: 1508. To ask the Minister for Health the information that is exchanged between the HSE's women's health service and anti-human trafficking team and An Garda Síochána - that is, how often such exchanges happen, demographic figures and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17015/23]

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: In politics, when the answer is more gardaí, sometimes it does not matter what the question is. It has been an evergreen answer for politicians over the years. Sometimes it is the right answer. With organised crime, murder, public order, cybercrime, and burglaries then yes, we need to resource the Garda. In the case of a drugs policy and tackling people with problematic addiction,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...increasing security measures on public transport, I would rather see traditional staffing levels improved across our public transport system in line with a stronger, more rigorous and more visible Garda presence, where and how appropriate. I ask that we get to back to first principles in the context of staffing and having a presence on the platforms and also, where we have difficulties in...