Results 26,141-26,160 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Deputy Devlin focused on the resignations from the finance side of the organisation, including the executive director. Some other people departed at the same time, including staff at principal officer level. Was there a commonality to the reason they all left roughly at the same time? This is the Committee of Public Accounts so if there was a commonality, are there any concerns about the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Was there a commonality of reason for these events?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Was there a spending plan - I presume there always is - in relation to the visit by President Biden?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Can we have a note on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: With the Garda strained numbers-wise, that will obviously create additional pressure. I want to move on to the figures for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I would be happy to get a note on that as I have only a small amount of speaking time left. I will skip through a number of other issues. The non-Garda staff members of the force are important. I am told that a large number of these staff are seeking to transfer out. I believe the figure is some 1,600 out of 3,000. Would that be correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: The number of people applying for jobs from other parts of the Civil Service does not give rise to the same movement as there is among the civilian staff of An Garda Síochána. Is that not the case? Is it an impediment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: That is movement within the Garda.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I presume An Garda Síochána has put in place contingency plans because of the very large number of staff involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: At the same time, the Garda would want to hold onto people. It takes a long time for people to be trained. The Garda wants a degree of stability. That kind of movement would not fill me with confidence about viability in the context of stability within stations, for example.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I presume the Garda Commissioner has interaction with the Minister on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: On roads policing, in 2023 there were 104 fewer Garda policing the roads than there were in 2021. That is a substantial drop in numbers. Road deaths have increased and it is difficult to avoid making some sort of a correlation there. Will the Garda Commissioner provide us with more information on this? Is roads policing the poor relation? Does it get the kind of attention it requires?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: There are 104 fewer-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Is that figure back up to where it was? I am just relying on a reply I received to a parliamentary question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I understand that but the personnel are needed to do-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I acknowledge that much of that is very positive but it is also about the number of personnel. I will resubmit a parliamentary question to get up-to-date numbers. Has the Garda Commissioner brought the tax issue to the Tax Appeals Commission or did it go directly to Revenue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I will go back to the question I asked about the allocation of resources. I remember meeting an assistant commissioner 25 years ago and being told that divisions would not give up resources and they have what they hold, which means there is a real difficulty for areas that are growing in population. I have looked at policing plan after policing plan and it is like cut and paste or copy and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: You cannot ignore population either.