Results 41-60 of 242 for garda speaker:Gerry Horkan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...to people who just jumped in the car, having taxed it but who were not insured, and they are driving around. What is the sanction for them at the moment? What happens when they are caught by An Garda Síochána for driving without insurance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Quarterly Update on Matters relating to Minister of State's Remit: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Gerry Horkan: That is all very positive news. I had this discussion previously with the Garda when its representatives appeared before the committee. Everyone needs to have his or her vehicle roadworthy at all times. However, even though it can be 100% roadworthy-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: If there is a Garda van on a Luas line, there is not much you can do about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: If Ms Armstrong does the last resort thing of stopping a bus and saying we are waiting for the Garda, these fellas just jump off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: In terms of the drivers, every garda will have this technology and they will be able to call up the information more quickly. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: If the Garda place a van somewhere and detections fall massively over a couple of months, the van will be moved. I know vans are moved every day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: The Garda would not have been catching them before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: ...input a car registration, they could find out whether a car is taxed, insured and has a valid NCT. It is important that type of information is publicly available and not only available to An Garda Síochána.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Mar 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...notes, given he has already very well articulated the purpose of this Bill. As a party, Fianna Fáil, the party of Government, supports this Government legislation which is effectively bringing Garda compensation claims within the remit of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. As a former member of the finance committee, which often discussed the cost of insurance, I know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...them surrender their licences. I am not as concerned as to whether they surrender the plastic card but we seem to keep finding people on the roads who are driving without permission to drive. An Garda Síochána's X, formerly Twitter, account seems to keep posting about how a car driving erratically was pulled in and it had no tax, NCT or driver's licence and the driver had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...in incidents, fatal or otherwise? Generally, motorways are probably the safest roads we have per percentage of the volume travelled and the volume of people on the road, etc. However, has the Garda seen a reduction in the number of incidents since the cameras on particular stretch went live?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Okay, I thank the witnesses for that. There will be many more cameras, and that is what is hoped for. For the information of people watching, does the revenue from that come back into An Garda Síochána to fund more road safety or does it go to the Courts Service? Where does it end up?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Gerry Horkan: We celebrated 60 years of UN peacekeeping at the weekend and acknowledged and remembered the 85 members of the armed forces and one Garda who lost their lives on UN peacekeeping service on behalf of Ireland. It was a lovely ceremony in Dublin Castle. Indeed, there were two very nice ceremonies in Dublin Castle on Sunday. The other ceremony related to the decriminalisation of homosexuality....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...a seat belt and every car is equipped with seat belts for every seat. I certainly never sit in a car even as a passenger without wearing a seat belt, even if I am seated in the back. Does the Garda Síochána still encounter drivers who are not wearing a seat belt and are involved in collisions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: What has the Garda been doing? People are saying that the ban relating to under-16s is going to be unenforceable. I see people almost every day when I am coming into Leinster House who are using scooters, some very responsibly and others less responsibly. Technically, however, their use is illegal. Is that correct? In other words, they are not legal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...the best will in the world, we could probably quadruple or multiply the number of people in roads policing by ten and we would never cover every rural road. Not to take away from everything An Garda Síochána is doing, I wonder what potential technological advances are available. Do we see technology in cars tracking drivers' behaviour and seeing what they are up to? I know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...closed-circuit television, CCTV, footage to prove to someone that he or she has no case and he or she has gone away. Mr. Twomey recommends that these companies should bring that information to An Garda Síochána and state they want the person involved to be prosecuted or at least investigated.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...and shops and staging accidents. Only for the CCTV footage there would have been payouts in these cases. In many cases these incidents involve a family industry and these people are known to the Garda for staging fraud. We do not, however, have a fraud unit within An Garda Síochána to look at these cases. The costs of insurance working group recommended such a measure and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: When is some of that stuff going to happen? There was an ANPR system but it did not work. When will an ANPR system that does work become operational, whereby a Garda car can be on a motorway or a city centre street and can detect plates, as it should be able to do all the time, whether it is on the garda’s jacket or the dashboard of the car? When will that come into operation?