Results 41-60 of 161 for garda speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is the Minister confident that, in a situation where an inquiry is taking place into a Garda Commissioner or deputy Garda commissioner for whatever reason, potentially removing either or both of those individuals, there is nothing either or both of those individuals could do to obstruct such an inquiry by non-attendance?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The numbers are down by 25. I appreciate that, as the Minister said, there was a period in which gardaí were not being trained in Templemore because of the pandemic. I accept that but, still, we are not where we were. I believe, as I hope the Minister does, that there is no more important garda than a community garda. Most young people will get to know the local community garda and...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Feb 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Section 7 inserts a new section 102B into the 2005 Act, which brings the Garda Commissioner within the scope of Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigations for the first time. This is a significant development and one to which the Government attaches a high degree of importance. That being said, it also must be borne in mind fully that in addition to carrying out her...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Senators will recall that among the provisions of the Garda Síochána (Amendment) Act 2015 was a provision inserting a new section 102B into the principal Act which brought the Garda Commissioner within the scope of GSOC investigations for the first time. This was a significant development and one to which the Government attaches a high degree of importance. The issue of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...and the escalation of violence in the Dublin 9 area and the Minister who replied to the matter told me that the Minister had no direct responsibility for the area and that it was an issue for the Garda Commissioner. I then raised in another debate the potential for the opening of a Garda station in the expanding Clongriffin-Balmayne area, which will have 50,000 residents in a number of...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (10 Dec 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of years of detailed analysis and was identified as a key additional measure to reduce deaths and serious collisions on our roads. I need not remind the Deputy that the Road Safety Authority, An Garda Síochána and many others working in the field of road safety, continue to emphasise the role played by speeding in serious collisions. Excessive and inappropriate speed is the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----against the express advice of an assistant Garda commissioner. Yet when we have had a pipe bomb incident and an attempted murder in a pizza parlour in Edenmore, I am told by the Leas-Chathaoirleach's office that the Garda Commissioner is the person responsible and the Minister for Justice and Equality has no responsibility for it.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...a review of the response of the criminal justice system to the problem. The review examined legislation, the management of prolific offenders, policing and crime prevention. It involved the Garda Commissioner, the Probation Service and the Prison Service. The Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, has been consistent in her view that serious and serial offenders must continue to be imprisoned in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a class C fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both.”. — This follows on from the section relating to removal from office of the Garda Commissioner or deputy Garda Commissioner and relates to an inquiry under that section. We are trying with this amendment to pre-empt the potential for the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Last week in this Chamber I was critical of the Minister for Justice and Equality in terms of the inability of Senators to get an adequate debate on Garda resources and the responsibility of the Minister for Justice and Equality over An Garda Síochána as a result of a number of incidents that happened on the north side of Dublin.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Under the Bill, the policing authority will oversee the exercise of the Garda Síochána's policing functions. As I have outlined to the House under earlier amendments, the drafting of the Bill has proceeded in conjunction with ongoing legal advice provided by senior counsel to the Office of the Attorney General. This was done to ensure that the functions of the authority will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I want to talk to the Minister about where her responsibilities and those of the Garda Commissioner lie because whenever we put forward parliamentary questions or engage with the Minister in the House, questions are frequently answered to the effect that she has no official responsibility for a matter and that it is an operational matter for the Garda Commissioner. The Ceann Comhairle...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Stations (17 Sep 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State for his response but the language in it does not give me much comfort. It states: "... I understand from An Garda Síochána that proposals for a new station will be considered as part of the next Garda accommodation programme". The assistant Garda commissioner announced in June 2019 that it would happen. I worry when I see words like "proposals" and...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Feb 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...past, the commission has confirmed to the Department of Justice and Equality that it is satisfied with the level of access to PULSE that is now being provided. As part of the processes involved, Garda training has been provided for GSOC personal. For the Minister's part, she believes it is appropriate that GSOC's access to the PULSE system should be provided within the general framework...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 396. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and name of each of the Garda Youth Diversion programmes currently operating in each of the Garda divisions in the Dublin Metropolitan area; the number of officers assigned to the juvenile liaison teams and to set out, in tabular form, the numbers for each of the following years - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will be brief. I understand that the witnesses are restricted in what they can say because the Department has to implement Government policy, the Garda has to implement law and personal opinions do not come into it. I understand that terminology is important and the idea of this centre being policed is not what we want to emerge from these proceedings, but streets and areas are policed....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 22, after line 38, to insert the following: “(5) Nothing in this section— (a) confers on a member of garda personnel a power that he or she does not otherwise have by virtue of another enactment or at common law, (b) authorises a member of garda personnel to exercise a power conferred by law for a purpose that is not so authorised.”....

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Leo Varadkar accused the now Senator James Reilly, who was then a Deputy and a Minister, of doing something that looked like a stroke in his constituency. There was an announcement today that the Garda station in Stepaside will be reopened. This is from the Minister, Deputy Ross, who apparently came into politics to get rid of stroke politics, wants an independent Judiciary and does not...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (10 Dec 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...his contribution was not about the effect of the speed cameras. The Deputy will appreciate that the reply as provided indicates the Minister takes the issue seriously and has liaised with the Garda authorities. I am not in a position to discuss the individual cases the Deputy has outlined. The Garda is studying the recent rulings and taking legal advice with respect to the possibility of...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Order of Business to table the Order for Second Stage for the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017. I raise with the Leader the issue of the ongoing Garda controversy and question marks over the tenure of the Garda Commissioner, senior Garda management and the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality. To bring it down to street...