Results 181-200 of 788 for garda speaker:Richard Bruton

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (3 Jul 2014)

Richard Bruton: .... From the State's point of view, this measure will save money without in any way eroding the rights of those seeking a judicial review. It is a good and sensible measure, which will help put gardaí back on the street, thereby saving money. The judicial system has become terribly tangled up. That more than half of cases arise from judicial reviews in this area illustrates the need...

Community Safety and Preventing Crime: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...on the centrality of community safety at the heart of a new community policing strategy. The Commission on the Future of Policing established that human rights are at the heart of what the Garda does. The right to feel safe in one's own community is a fundamental right that we need to promote. The sad reality is that this right is not equally distributed across our community. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cycling Facilities Provision (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: .... Cycle Right was developed by a partnership steering committee consisting of stakeholders including the Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport, the Road Safety Authority, Cycling Ireland, An Garda Síochána, An Táisce (Green Schools), Coaching Ireland and representatives of local authorities. Schools can apply to partake in this programme. In the Primary...

Other Questions: Departmental Staff Data (25 Nov 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...Commissioners. The Revenue Commissioners issued a statement outlining the investigation they undertook in respect of various individuals under the Ansbacher accounts. They also went to the Garda, which issued a statement that it has dealt with these issues and a file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. I assure the Deputy that the issues have been thoroughly passed on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Transport (20 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: Details of the Ministerial drivers costs as requested by the Deputy since 2011 are as set out below in tabular format. As the costs of the salaries and allowances of Garda drivers under the scheme previously in place were paid by the Department of Justice my Department does not have those details and I, therefore, cannot provide a comparison of the cost of the two schemes. I will ask my...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...from best examples elsewhere, to bring a team with them to make changes, to monitor whether that is happening and to give resources to those who are ambitious. I do not see that happening in our Garda force yet. We need to look very seriously at how it can be done. It is relatively cheap in resource terms compared to many of the other challenges faced by the force.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...that response. As the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, stated yesterday, this issue of organised crime, which is at the heart of the drugs business, cannot be resolved with a Garda response alone. The Deputy is correct that we need to develop other responses in the community that can support people, reduce dependence on drugs and prevent people from getting involved....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...Assessment Board, PIAB, and streamlined the process relating to it. We also introduced reforms aimed at securing greater sharing of data. We have introduced an economic crime bureau within the Garda and this is providing briefings to officers in all divisions on how to recognise and address fraudulent claims. We have improved the system for reporting fraudulent claims by the insurance...

Tax Yield. (20 Nov 2007)

Richard Bruton: ...less than 10% of the revenue he thought he would for these improvements, what is going to give? Will he revise these commitments or will we pretend the Minister will be able to fund 4,000 extra gardaí, 2,000 extra consultants and 4,000 extra teachers? Will he have a medium-term prospect of what is realistic given the resources available?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Safety (2 May 2017)

Richard Bruton: ...is a concern that a person poses a potential threat to public safety (including to the safety of a school’s staff or pupils) the responsibility for dealing with such a situation rests primarily with An Garda Síochána in accordance with its duty to protect the community, to undertake criminal investigations and to bring offenders to justice. In any case where a school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Protection (17 Jan 2017)

Richard Bruton: ...of my Department is to provide guidance and support to schools in implementing child protection policy and to refer any allegations my Department receives to the Child and Family Agency or to An Garda Síochána where appropriate for investigation. My Department has issued "Child Protection Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools" based on the "Children First...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2014)

Richard Bruton: I can check out the situation in regard to joint inspections. The section provides clarity to applicants on the role of the Garda National Immigration Bureau in the employment permit application process but also speeds up the decision-making process. This is because, under section 6(f) of the current Act, all applications for employment permits must include information and documents in...

Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2017)

Richard Bruton: ...totally inadequate and it has initiated enforcement investigations over some of the behaviour of individual banks. It has made clear that it is engaging with other statutory bodies, including the Garda Síochána, so there is no flinching from pursuing this. Some of the failures occurred before the legislation giving new powers to the Central Bank came in and some of the defects...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)

Richard Bruton: ..., in specified circumstances, to issue a warrant to an inspector appointed under this legislation. The warrant will permit a named inspector, accompanied by such other inspectors or members of the Garda Síochána as may be necessary at any time or times within one month from the date of issue of the warrant, to enter a specified private dwelling for the purpose of ensuring...

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (25 Oct 2017)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy is right that under the current system it is up to the local authority to decide on employment policies of that nature. I will ask the Department to look at the issue. In regard to Garda vetting, to be fair to the various management bodies they have made a big effort to streamline the process. The Teaching Council has also done a lot of work to try to streamline it. Of late, I...

Budget Statement 2008 (5 Dec 2007)

Richard Bruton: .... That blows the entire manifesto out of the water. We now have no strategy from Government. Its programme for Government does not stand up to any scrutiny. The promises, such as the 2,000 extra gardaí, the 4,000 extra teachers or the 2,000 extra consultants, have gone in a puff of smoke because the money is spent.

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: ...in specified circumstances to issue a warrant to an inspector appointed under this legislation. The warrant will permit a named inspector, accompanied by such other inspectors or members of the Garda Síochána as may be necessary, at any time or times within one month from the date of issue of the warrant, to enter a specified private dwelling for the purpose of ensuring...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Employment Rights Issues (31 Jan 2013)

Richard Bruton: ...service activities, such as the armed forces or the police, and certain activities in the civil protection services. Therefore, when transposing the Directive, both the Defence Forces and the Garda Síochána were excluded from the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. In addition, Regulations exempting the Civil Protection Services from certain provisions of the 1997 Act were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (4 Oct 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...the Acts and the Teaching Council Registration Regulations 2016. Once the applicant has furnished a completed registration application form with the supporting documentation and completed the Garda Vetting process, the Teaching Council will either grant registration, grant registration subject to conditions or refuse registration. Section 31(8) of the Acts provides that, where an...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Richard Bruton: The Taoiseach will be well aware of the tragic killings that have occurred in the Coolock Garda district. He will also be aware from his time as Minister for education that it is also an area that has the lowest progression to further and higher education in the country. Former assistant commissioner, Mr. Jack Nolan, is completing an evaluation of what needs to be done to address the...