Results 41-60 of 191 for garda speaker:Jack Chambers

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...be aware that there are three measures in the Bill to address this matter. Dangerous driving, currently an offence only in a ‘public place’ will become an offence everywhere; there will be new Garda powers of seizure; and there will be a new power to provide in regulations for the prohibition or restriction of the uses of classes of vehicles in particular places. There...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Jack Chambers: ...an armed robbery on a shop with a machete and various other weapons. They did so without any fear and in the full knowledge that they would not be caught. When one of the canvassers tried to call the Garda, it took him ten minutes to get through to the 999 number. That is the initial interaction with our crime force, yet one cannot make contact. How do we expect response times and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (27 Feb 2019)

Jack Chambers: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of investigations carried out by An Garda Síochána into breaches of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of files referred to the DPP by An Garda Síochána in the same years as part of these investigations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: The Garda will be able to give further information on that. It is recruiting additional personnel to run the GoSafe vans and procuring additional vehicles to maximise the opportunities through GoSafe. I agree that if there is further capability to do more there, that should be pursued. My understanding, however, is that the Garda has sought to reach the upper end of what is possible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Jack Chambers: Does that happen properly at present? Obviously the Garda Síochána can only be accountable for the information that it receives. Is Mr. Sutton confident that the other side is presenting the subsequent facts? Is that another issue, for which the Garda Síochána would not be directly responsible? Is the public health system presenting what it perceives as a pathological...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Jack Chambers: ...automatic number plate recognition, ANPR, technology? How many vehicles have had that technology installed to date? It is an important technology for crime surveillance and road traffic issues. Many gardaí would mention it to me as being a priority technology. Given that new vehicles are being purchased, it is important that they would have this technology installed. There were...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (1 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: I take the wider concern from the Deputy, others and certainly the victims' organisations on the need to improve enforcement. That is something I raise at every meeting I have with An Garda Síochána and senior management in An Garda Síochána. We do need to see enforcement improve and we need to see the numbers in roads policing units improve. I am not dismissing that...

Other Questions: Motor Insurance Regulation (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: ...people, including taxi drivers, have seen their premiums rocket. I recognise, however, that work is being done. I refer to the targets set in the third update on progress. The approval of the Garda Commissioner is required for a mechanism to provide for further co-operation between the insurance sector and An Garda Síochána in insurance fraud investigations. Does the Minister...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...system to make Ireland and our communities a safer place for all. On justice issues, I have absolutely zero confidence in Sinn Féin. I have zero confidence in Sinn Féin as a party giving the Garda the support it needs to deal with the far right who want to undermine and destroy our country. Sinn Féin has seen a political opportunity and seized on the recent horrific...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: The Minister proposes to delete section 10. In his amendment No. 14, which involves a replacement section, he proposes a member of the Garda Síochána not below the rank of sergeant may request the Courts Service to arrange a special sitting of the District Court. In an ideal world, we might have a sergeant in every Garda station but we do not, which might limit this proposal....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Data Protection (18 Apr 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...locations referenced and is therefore not withholding the information requested, for GDPR reasons or otherwise. Responsibility for investigating road traffic incidents rests with the An Garda Síochána, which collects collision data at the roadside. To obtain collision information at the specific junctions requested, the Deputy should make contact with An Garda Síochána.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Jack Chambers: Should An Garda Síochána not make the decision and set the criteria? It is a "Yes" or "No" scenario. It is important. I know Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll might not want to answer, but would he be comfortable with a future recommendation from Government to examine a further eight stations that slot around a particular parameter? Would he prefer to have it by the criteria the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: ...returning to the station. Finally, have any audits of response times been conducted? It is a basic issue but I often hear about people ringing stations and not being able to get through. Is An Garda Síochána considering changing its phone systems, at an organisational level, in order that people get a response when they ring, and there is some follow through? This is do...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (14 May 2024)

Jack Chambers: Section 81 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 provides for the use of cameras, radar guns or other electronic apparatus by An Garda Síochána to obtain evidence to assist in the detection of specific traffic offences. Section 81 requires electronic apparatus used to capture this type of evidence to be approved in advance by An Garda Síochána or Transport Infrastructure Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (20 Mar 2024)

Jack Chambers: The legislation referred in the Deputy’s question is Section 41(1)(c) of the Road Traffic Act, 1994, as amended by the Road Traffic Act 2006, which gives a member of An Garda Síochána the power of detention, removal, storage and subsequent release or disposal of a vehicle using the public road, where the member reasonably believes that the vehicle’s motor tax has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (18 Apr 2023)

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy is likely aware, road traffic collision data are compiled by An Garda Síochána and then exchanged with other road safety stakeholder agencies. My Department, the Road Safety Authority and An Garda Síochána are currently engaged in a process to review the legislative basis for this data sharing and to update this if required. This is being done in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Jack Chambers: I thank the members of An Garda Síochána for their presence. I send my sympathies to the family of Detective Superintendent Colin Fox. His funeral is this morning. It is a difficult time for people in the force. He served in my area of Blanchardstown in the K district and did distinguished work. It is important we recognise that. I will start with the working group...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)

Jack Chambers: Section 81 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 provides for the use of cameras by the Garda to assist in the detection of certain offences. The powers have been used by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, working with the Garda. It is open to road authorities to use these powers on a similar basis for other offences. As part of our wider camera-based enforcement strategy, we want to have many...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (28 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority produces official statistics to inform road safety policy and evidence-based interventions. The Authority relies upon collision data collected by An Garda Síochána (AGS) for this purpose. Similarly, Transport Infrastructure Ireland makes use of data, as reported by AGS, to provide evidence for locations within the network to target and prioritise road...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Further Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Further Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Further Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Further Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: On the question of civilianisation, will the Minister give an update, with an exact figure, on how many gardaí have been redeployed to the front line on the basis of mitigating the need for overtime? What is the new recruitment in terms of the civilianisation or redeployment within the public service to meet the change, as referred to by the Minister? I now turn to the capital budget...