Results 21-40 of 256 for garda speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...research and from talking to Travellers that they do not experience a policing model that is focused on human rights. The report found that half of those surveyed had been present in a home that gardaí entered without permission. They found that 64% of Travellers in Garda custody in the past five years said they did not feel safe while in custody. When they were asked about the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Penalty Points System (11 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...; and the number of driver disqualification court cases where it has not been possible to apply the disqualification to the appropriate driving licence record over the past ten years, since the Garda Inspectorate recommended that this shortcoming be addressed immediately (2014 Garda Inspectorate Report "Fixed Charge Processing System – A 21st Century Strategy"). [15790/24]

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Sep 2015)

Paul Murphy: The context of the discussion of this Bill is the damage done to the image of the Garda Síochána by various scandals, including the whistleblower and penalty points scandals, and ongoing and blatant political policing. What we have is an attempt to make policing look like something that it is not and giving the impression that we have some form of independent and democratic control...

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...what the rush is for in that respect. I want to respond to a point raised by Deputy O'Callaghan that it is not appropriate for political parties, unless they all agree, to call for the Garda Commissioner to resign. I do not agree. I note that Senator Michael McDowell, a former Minister for Justice, called in the Seanad today for her to go. I just do not think it is credible that we...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...for political reform. That promise appears, at the very least, a little aspirational now. I have a simple question for the Taoiseach. If The Sunday Timeshad not published the story about the Garda report last Sunday, is it not the case that the Taoiseach would not have asked Deputy Cowen to answer questions in the Dáil? Is it also not the case that the Taoiseach was relying on...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paul Murphy: ...particular I am opposed to the reference to water meters contained in section 3(6). As we know, water meters are being imposed on householders who do not want them. Entire communities are facing Garda occupation and Garda violence in order to impose those water meters, in particular on the north side of Dublin, but also in Cobh and other areas throughout the country. I draw attention to...

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: .... He participated in the Shell to Sea protests in the Taoiseach's constituency. He organised meetings here in the run-up to the protest in Gleneagles at the G8 in 2005. He was arrested by the Garda in Dublin on 3 May 2004. Sarah Hampton, a US citizen, met Mark Kennedy in Ireland in 2005. On Monday, in a statement read out in Dublin she said:Finding out that Mark was an undercover...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2015)

Paul Murphy: I was speaking about the reportage of the so-called Operation Mizen within the Garda surveillance of anti-water-charge protestors. The issue seemed so serious to us, as the Anti-Austerity Alliance, that in the context of the Dáil not sitting, we wrote to the Minister for Justice and Equality to ask a number of questions. For example, we asked if she was aware that the Garda unit was in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...the Tánaiste about the illegal eviction that had taken place on Harrington Street in Dublin where unlicensed private security threatened tenants and others with violence and the fact that the gardaí refused even to take statements saying that it was a civil matter. The Tánaiste responded to say that the Minister had written to the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, to ensure...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2 o’clock Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. That right is now being undermined by the actions of the Garda in this State. Last Thursday night, gardaí brutally broke up a peaceful picket of Debenhams workers at Henry Street, arresting a number of supporters and throwing workers, who were...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Equality Issues (20 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the fact the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, has sent a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, on the killing of George Nkencho. I understand the Taoiseach will not be able to comment on the particular case. However, broader issues are raised by George’s killing. A statement was issued by his sister, Gloria Nkencho, yesterday, which raises...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach agree that what has happened here is utterly chilling, namely, a criminal conspiracy led by the hierarchy of the Garda to destroy the lives of gardaí who pose difficulties for them? If they felt able to do that against gardaí, what else are they willing to do to those who they consider to pose a threat to them? Does the Taoiseach agree that it is a fundamental...

Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...it is appropriate that a chief superintendent has the power to make such a decision? Third, and most serious, are the revelations about what is reported as being called Operation Mizen, a secret Garda spying operation including the highest level of surveillance which is directed against water charges protestors, including myself. It is reportedly an information-gathering operation...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: I raise the case of the death of Margaret Bracken, whose body was discovered at her home in Dundalk on 16 December 2019. The Garda very quickly concluded that there was nothing suspicious about the circumstances of her death. That conclusion was reached extremely quickly, with the sergeant and inspector having spent less than ten minutes in the house before doing so. However, they ignored...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...questions that arise following the answers she has now given on three occasions? Are members of the public or public representatives subject to any form of surveillance by Operation Mizen or the Garda as a result of participating in anti-water charges protests? The Minister referred to one of the approaches involved, making use of open source information, but what other approaches are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...to democratic rights, the smashing of trade unions and brutal oppression of women, LGBTQ people, migrants, Travellers and others. What was the response of the establishment in this State? The Garda Commissioner incredibly and falsely claimed that both the far right and far left were involved, which was a gift to the misinformation campaigns of the far right. When he was forced to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach's behaviour in relation to An Taisce is reminiscent of Donald Trump. The emergency powers handed to the Garda and the State last year are due to expire on 9 June but it is rumoured that the Government is thinking of extending them yet again. We have seen how the so called Covid powers have been used to harass Debenhams workers and to ban a car-based protest by taxi drivers....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...for organising those events. Last summer, a group of young people socialising on South William Street were batoned simply for the crime of enjoying an outdoor summer. Instead of a visit by the Garda, the champagne party in the Department of Foreign Affairs in June 2020 got a visit from the Minister, Deputy Coveney. He admits to visiting the office at 11.10 p.m., after the champagne...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...that was said. He could not have been struck by it because it did not happen. Last Thursday, the Taoiseach made comments on "Prime Time" expressing concern over potentially false statements given by gardaí. Yesterday, he entered the Dáil and put them on the Official Report of the Dáil. We proved, and we can prove again, that they were not said because of a video taken by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...is open to the Government to initiate a public inquiry. It is a power which rests with it. Regarding the GSOC inquiry, does the Minister not think it was problematic that it was led by a former Garda who had previously worked, not at the time of the death, at Store Street Garda station? Turning to the legal proceedings, those were civil legal proceedings where, as I understand it, the...