Results 41-60 of 632 for garda speaker:John McGuinness

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Garda Station Closures (22 Jun 2016)

John McGuinness: I am glad to hear the Minister for Justice and Equality refer to the relationship between Kilkenny businesses and the local Garda which is making a huge impact in tracking crime and alerting people to the possibility of crime throughout the city and county. Text alerts are also proving effective. There is a community involvement. My question seeks to establish the number of gardaí and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2013)

John McGuinness: Our work programme is well set out for June. Is that agreed? Agreed? Is there any other business? We can agree the agenda for Thursday 16 May at 10 a.m. when we meet with the Garda Síochána, a representative of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. The agenda for the meeting will be the 2011...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: ...today’s committee meeting. No. 3C.1, correspondence received from the Department of Justice and Equality re GSOC report and examination of practice, policy and procedure under section 106 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 in regard to the FCPS as operated by the Garda Síochána, is to be noted. This document is already in the public domain and we can take account...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2013)

John McGuinness: No. 3B.4 is correspondence dated 20 February 2013, from Chief Superintendent Orla McPartlin, personal assistant to the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána, re providing information previously requested regarding the Garda fleet, to be noted. No. 3B.5 is correspondence, received on 21 February 2013, from Mr. Conor Ryan, Irish Examiner, re publication of financial statements and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

John McGuinness: ...the minutes of our meeting of Wednesday, 24 May 2023 were agreed earlier in private session. Apologies have been received from Senator Higgins. Today the committee is meeting with the assistant Garda Commissioner and officials from the Department of Justice on the topic of authorised push payment fraud. We are joined from An Garda Síochána by Assistant Garda Commissioner...

Written Answers — Firearms Certificates: Firearms Certificates (20 Oct 2011)

John McGuinness: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, in respect of each Garda division, including the five firearms certificate applications unattributed to any Garda division, if he will confirm the number of firearms certificates granted for restricted handguns; the number of firearms certificates granted for restricted rifles; the number of firearms certificates granted for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (12 May 2015)

John McGuinness: ...to a pupply farm in County Carlow that are being investigated; the date each complaint was registered with his Department; the action taken on each complaint; if the complaints were forwarded to An Garda Síochána for investigation; if his Department was made aware of complaints made to the local authority in Carlow and to An Garda Síochána; if these complaints will now...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

John McGuinness: This is a fact. The garda then went on to ask the confidential recipient to process the complaint, questioned the fact that nothing was happening and then asked for an update on the position. I would like to ask the confidential recipient whether he said to her that it had gone too high to cover it up and that it had to be investigated. He then suggested to her not to forget his proximity...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reports (25 Mar 2021)

John McGuinness: 157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is her Department or An Garda Síochána that set the fees for providing Garda report abstracts and any other supporting documentation relative to road traffic accidents when requested by the victim; if it is normal that victims of road traffic accidents are charged €260 for such information when...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013)

John McGuinness: ...Darragh O'Brien. It has been raised as an issue that is central, as Mr. McDonagh rightly acknowledged, to the economy and the State. I would have thought that when the papers were handed to the Garda, it would have to examine them, but surely it would have contacted NAMA before now. Certainly, regarding all the other information in the media, and if there is a liaison officer appointed,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: I refer to a letter received by the committee - I believe it was brought to the attention of the Governor - from the Garda Commissioner's office, which dealt with queries raised during the hearing the committee had with Jonathan Sugarman. The letter from the Commissioner's office stated that liquidity ratios are set by the Central Bank in its role of economic governance. It continued that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

John McGuinness: ...Simon Harris has raised the issue of cost and funding the Department more generally. The Commissioner's opening statement refers to a reduction of 4.5% in the budget on the 2012 outturn. The Garda Vote amounts to €1.272 billion. We are five months of into the year and I presume people are projecting for the rest of the year. There have been number of promotions which are to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

John McGuinness: We invited the Garda Commissioner because at last week's meeting we presumed that today's meeting would just involve signing off on the report but that is not the case because substantial changes and amendments have been introduced. The Garda fraud unit was due to come in at 1.30 p.m. The witnesses are waiting outside. I am told that it will be 2 p.m. or a little after when we commence...

Public Accounts Committee: Investigations by Revenue into Authorised Officers Report (4 Dec 2014)

John McGuinness: ...and under the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act 2013, he is entitled to that and also if he wishes to make a comment on it. In respect of the cases sent to the Garda, I propose that we send a transcript to the Garda Commissioner to determine the up-to-date position. I will ask the clerk to review the transcript in respect of anyone else who has been...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Síochána - Review of Allowances (1 Nov 2012)

John McGuinness: ...the merits of a policy or policies of the Government or a Minister of the Government or the merits of the objectives of such policy or policies. I welcome Mr. Martin Callinan, Commissioner, An Garda Síochána, Mr. P. J. Stone, general secretary, Garda Representative Association, and Mr. John Redmond, general secretary, Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, and ask them...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2013)

John McGuinness: ...Agreed. The next heading is 3C concerning documents relating to the committee meeting of 2 May 2013. No. 3C.1 is correspondence received on 14 May 2013 from Mr. Martin Callinan, Commissioner, An Garda Síochána, re briefing paper on matters to be considered today. It is to be noted and published. No. 3C.2 is correspondence received 14 May 2013 from Mr. Martin Callinan,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and 2014 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38: Health
Chapter 13: Irish Blood Transfusion Service Pension Funding (8 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: ...so strong about it that they raised it at a restricted public meeting of employees with the HSE. It also was raised here. Deputy Deasy and I raised it, and I made a disclosure to Pearse St. Garda station. This is what annoys me about it. Some employees of the health board at that time must have known about this and that was said by the whistleblower in greater detail. I have not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 4 - National Pensions Reserve Fund
Chapter 25 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2011
National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission - Financial Statements 2011 (22 Nov 2012)

John McGuinness: ...individuals concerned received from State Street in the explanation provided when a senior executive of the company flew into Ireland to discuss this matter with the NTMA? Having notified the Garda of the matter, will the NTMA pursue a Garda investigation to bring it to a conclusion? Arising from this hearing, the NTMA should write to the FSA in the UK to determine how long its...

Written Answers — Firearm Certificates: Firearm Certificates (18 Jul 2012)

John McGuinness: Question 258: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether Section 3(9) of the Firearms Act 1925, which permits the Garda authorities to take up to three months to make a decision on the renewal of a firearm certificate is unfair on the applicant who must lodge an application in renewal exactly three months before expiry of the existing certificate, which is the earliest...

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (24 Mar 2005)

John McGuinness: The Deputy should make a comparison with the search conducted in Cork in more recent times. The response of the general pubic was overwhelming. I call on the Minister and the Garda to try to harness through this and other legislation some of that public support and energy and to establish protocols and a proper approach to the search for missing persons. While I may appear to focus on a...