Results 41-60 of 110 for garda speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...committed to taking in 4,500 refugees. We are told that 55 men are being moved into Linden House on New Road in Killarney. There has been no consultation with the local authority or the Garda, whose station is on the same road. There are community schools and national schools, including the Presentation convent school and St. Brendan's College, on the same road. Some 55 men are being...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the name of any political category, such as calling them "far right" or "right". They are thugs, blackguards, thieves and robbers. I cannot support the Minister because she has not supported the gardaí right around the country, whether it is in Kerry or in Dublin, or wherever. Instead, she is supporting a Commissioner who does not have the support of the Garda members. The critical...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...into towns and villages, with no law and order being enforced. When they cause an accident, no one claims ownership of them, but if somebody shoots one of them, there is an investigation by An Garda Síochána and the National Parks and Wildlife Service. There is no accountability, which is unfair to motorists because they are not safe on the roads.

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...people want to know whether anyone can be brought to account for the wrongs that were done to so many children and young women. Deputies should not be haggling over which amendment to support. The Garda has a role to play in getting to the truth to ensure everything about what happened to the victims is made clear and, if possible, all the survivors are compensated properly. This...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...are open here in Dublin. Two thirds of them are still closed down in Kerry and along the west coast. These people have done nothing wrong. We are suggesting that uniformed or plain-clothes gardaí can enter a premises. It does not say whether it is a private house out in the country where people are terrified. What the Government is suggesting is that when a knock comes at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...vehicles travelling those roads in the coming weeks. It is wrong to say that some bus contractors are in some way cowboy operators. I have to point out that, along with the departmental test, the Garda has to check public service vehicles. Bus Éireann also employs Freight Transport Association, FTA, at least in Kerry.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...previous speakers said. If that was a business, a company, a businessman or any single entity, they would not go after it like that. I am saying to the Minister of State that this should be delegated to An Garda Síochána. There should be a special unit in An Garda Síochána to deal with this kind of carry on because there is much too much of it. Denis...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (26 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and fairness, he did not answer my question. It is ridiculous. Did he get mixed up or did he get the answer to another answer? What has gone wrong? I asked him a question about the closure of Garda stations on both sides of Kenmare Bay, but he dealt with the matter of sentencing and something else unrelated to my question.

Rural Crime: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the opportunity to talk on this very important motion. It is important for people living in rural areas and perhaps not so rural places, as Deputy MacSharry said in his speech. It is a fact that gardaí were very effective when they lived in the local community. In many instances a house was provided locally for the sergeant to live in. There was one in Kilgarvan until very recent...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Thank you, Chair. I am very grateful. Regarding the Special Criminal Court, I would much prefer we had trial by jury but I will not be the one to compromise the Garda if it wants to bring to justice druglords and criminal gangs. If the only way to deal with them is the Special Criminal Court, so be it. They have to be dealt with because our towns and villages are ravaged by drugs. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (26 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Something has gone wrong as the Minister is not dealing with my priority question. As I said, the closure of so many Garda stations on both sides of Kenmare Bay has left the area unserviced, response times are not adequate and communities genuinely believe they are being exposed to the importation of drugs along this massive coastline. Every town and village in County Kerry is rife with...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...our names on the register. The first was coming up to an election and there were only so many days after the election was called that people could register. That created an awful uproar with An Garda Síochána having to sign and stamp papers. That is no longer required which is no loss. That is not a reflection on An Garda Síochána, but it was cumbersome. People...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...side of town. These come from at least 12 different nationalities. Since they came there on 12 October last, there have been many reported incidents of friction between themselves on a daily basis with Garda vehicles outside the place day after day, culminating on new year's night at 8 o'clock with five people being stabbed and one fellow's finger being cut off. Five ambulances were...

Order of Business (20 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...It is a fact that there is no broadband. It is a day's work to leave Glencar or Sneem and go to Kenmare, and one must have an appointment arranged. It is absolutely ridiculous. Heretofore, the Garda could give one an ML10 form-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...behalf of the road hauliers. They maintain they are being over-regulated and that they are being driven down to the ground by so many different road authorities and the associated enforcement. The Garda and roadworthiness certificates are examples. Lorries have to be tested every eight weeks as well. Then the RSA comes along, even where the lorry is new, and pulls the driver aside for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: As a result of the passing of the Bill of the Minister, Deputy Ross, the people of rural Ireland throughout the country are angry and frustrated. As a result, Ministers are complaining about Garda checkpoints. I remind them that it was they and the Minister who voted for this Bill, as did Sinn Féin, while no member of Fianna Fáil voted against the Bill. Here they are now,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...promise it made in that regard, and it has happened in every parish and county in Ireland. That is very unfair because there are so many services being taken from parishes, including post offices, Garda stations and so on. These people will have to pay someone or take their children to school themselves. That is what happening. The Department went back on its promise. I am not blaming...

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...will never open again. That is a fact. Attitudes are changing and, possibly, people are resigned to buying alcohol and having a few drinks at home because there is no problem with meeting the Garda on the road or whatever if they do so. People are doing things differently now. I worry that things will never again be the same for many businesses. I have made calls in the House, day...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (30 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...for the people of Kerry, for the first time as Minister. It has to do with the hiring of teachers who may be asked to work in different schools. This also affects other workers. Surely the one Garda vetting process should do. Under the regulations as they stand, someone must be vetted two or three times if he or she will be working in two or three different schools. Surely it makes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of the Minister's Bill, whether it is the young fellow who cannot drive on his own on a provisional licence or those facing the morning checkpoints initiated across all county boundaries and Garda divisions. Whatever type of service is put in place, it will not deal with the issues that people are facing the following morning when they cannot go to work. The social fabric of rural Ireland...