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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024)

...McCrum: I thank the committee for the opportunity to discuss the 2022 appropriation account for Vote 35 and 36 along with the chapter 12 report on stock management in the Defence Forces and Reserve Defence Force, RDF, matters. I hope my brief opening statement will provide some context to members on the main issues impacting on the Department of Defence in 2022. For 2022, expenditure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...implementation of the speed limits. As the Deputy said, it is about local authorities and councillors working together in the context of the legislation and the guidance, but also using their reserved function relating to local roads. We have previously engaged on that. It is about ensuring that we have a safer default baseline. Councils will then examine each road on an individual...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...B, which comprises correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow up to Committee of Public Accounts meetings. No. R2583 is from Ms Thelma Watters, chief superintendent, An Garda Síochána, dated 3 May. It provides follow-up information to the committee in respect of questions raised at the meeting of 21 March. I flagged this item because there are a...

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

Cathal Crowe: I nearly know the answer to my next question but it is worth asking anyway. There is a drive on to recruit new members of the Garda Reserve. Can members of the latter have any role in terms of road policing or is this totally locked out? Is this a role for the rank-and-file gardaí?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 May 2024)

Pa Daly: 472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reserve Gardaí who have been attested to date from Garda College in Templemore from the first intake in December 2006; the number of reserve Gardaí currently remaining in the force; and the number of reserve Gardaí who obtained their Annual Allowance in 2023. [21821/24]

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...of the representative associations as well? They should also be conduits to their members. With their wealth of experience in the Defence Forces and as long-established professional bodies, RACO, PDFORRA and the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association, RDFRA, could make an excellent contribution to the board. Their contribution to the work of the independent monitoring group...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: European Union (30 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...of 29 April 2021 on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online S.I. No. 270/2023 - European Union (Online Dissemination of Terrorist Content) (Designation of the Commissioner of the Garda SÍochána as a Competent authority) Regulations 2023 Regulation (EU) 2021/784 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on addressing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (30 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...other things, strengthening the notification requirements for sex offenders and providing for the court to prohibit a sex offender from working with children. It also provides additional powers to An Garda Síochána to take photographs, fingerprints and palm prints from a convicted sex offender and has given Gardaí the power to disclose information regarding a convicted...

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

...is at 19 deaths per month for this year. It is also important to acknowledge that more than 300 people have been seriously injured in road traffic collisions. While it is not yet possible for An Garda Síochána to confirm the primary contributing factors to fatal collisions in 2024, our data shows 25% of fatalities occurred between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., while 36% occurred late at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (23 Apr 2024)

Pa Daly: What is coming down the tracks is that the large cohort of gardaí who attested in the early 1990s will be coming to the end of their natural cycle of employment. There are also the resignations and other retirements that are coming up. It is difficult when the maximum going through is 600 to 700 this year and was 700 last year. To increase to 15,000 may be on the horizon but to...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...duty" to integrate biodiversity into their plans, policies and programmes and to report on their progress. Of particular relevance to this debate, we are expanding the network of national parks and nature reserves across the country through the establishment of new ones and increasing investment in the ones we already have. We are also publishing legislation to provide a legal basis...

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Pa Daly: ...Kenny on his work in this area. I hope we will see action from the Government and the RSA soon. One of the interesting parliamentary questions submitted by Deputy Kenny was on the number of gardaí involved in roads policing. In 2017, there were 623 gardaí in roads policing according to the reply to that parliamentary question. Seven years later, there were 627, meaning there...

Seanad: EU Regulations (Police Co-operation on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings): Motion (11 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...step up the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings by strengthening interagency co-operation and co-ordination at EU level. This is about making sure gardaí are talking to agencies across the EU and other police services, improving information-sharing in that regard and reinforcing the support available from member states and...

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...the proposed regulation, each member state will be obliged to designate a national specialised service to prevent and combat migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings. In Ireland, this already exists within the Garda National Immigration Bureau. These specialised services will collect and share all relevant information about criminal investigations into migrant smuggling and...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Ms Yvonne Cooke: The Public Appointments Service is still a valued partner to An Garda Síochána. PAS currently supports us with respect to running the Garda trainee competition, all of our Garda staff competitions and soon the Garda Reserve. We found that our needs and demand were significant. To be fair to the Public Appointments Service, it was not able to commit to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Mar 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to ensuring that An Garda Síochána has the resources it needs to fight crime. An Garda Síochána has been allocated unprecedented funding of over €2.35 billion for 2024 – this is a 25% increase since 2020. This funding will allow for the continued recruitment of Garda members and staff. As the Deputy will be aware, under the...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Pa Daly: ..., but we do feel there are some glaring inadequacies in it. The Minister of State must surely accept that the Bill does nothing to address the enforcement of road safety work being undertaken by the Garda and the Road Safety Authority, RSA. The Government in its various iterations has overseen the absolute decimation of An Garda Síochána. Garda strength has dropped...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...to join with Deputy McAuliffe in welcoming the seizure of scramblers. The new laws were a long time coming but I was delighted to see them being used now that they are on the books. I agree that we need more gardaí, Garda staff and Garda reserves. I have to say that I am very encouraged by the fact that 6,000 people applied to join the Garda in the most recent recruitment campaign....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: I condemn without reservation the behaviour and activities of people at that location last week. It is not the first time that malicious and false rumours have been spread about people seeking international protection. We have all heard those rumours. They have been deliberately spread, falsely and wrongly. That stands to be condemned. The Garda is investigating aspects of that, I...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

...to bring councillors into the policymaking role. Whether they made use of that is a subject of debate, I think. There was greater interaction and consultation between the State agencies and the Garda, that featured prominently as well, to give the councillors an opportunity to question State bodies and make them more accountable. The abolition of the dual mandate has been mentioned and...