Results 41-60 of 65 for garda speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ..., Sandycove, Dalkey, Killiney and Shankill, where, naturally, children or young people who were mad to get out of the house congregated. It has caused a significant public order issue. I thank the Garda for its actions over the weekend to try to help and intervene. I hope those difficulties will not be an ongoing feature of the summer and that the Minister will provide every support to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...being a parent in that situation. The supports required by a parent in such an exceptionally difficult situation must be linked together, from Tusla through to the health system and to An Garda Síochána, to make life as easy as possible.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...of accommodation published by the Minister, Deputy McEntee, is welcome and important. In Dún Laoghaire, that work has already well begun with collaboration between the council executive, the Garda through the Joint Policing Committees, JPC, and the Taoiseach's colleague, Councillor Mary Hanafin, to try to find accommodation for 20 family places. The review says ten; it is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Digital Recording) Bill 2021: Discussion (21 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...view that it would like to be supported by effective and enhanced policing. How do we assess that or track and monitor it so that we can reduce the concern or at least provide data regarding it? Garda members should be inherently involved in the design of the programme, which should be overseen by external bodies because they are the people who will be implementing it and their view is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (24 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...building. My point is that the group is further ahead than Tusla. It is a point of concern where the accommodation review is behind what is actually happening on the ground between the local authority and Garda, led by the joint policing committee and councillors. When the accommodation review report comes out, it is behind the work in this regard. That is of concern to me. I ask the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: .... The Minister will be aware that they hover between 10% and 20% each year. The point made by the Minister about the withdrawal of complaints is important, because that has a big effect on the Garda being able to issue a caution, a summons or anything else, or to progress a case. This is about supporting victims right through the process and at every stage of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: .... It was becoming too routine for them to be there. It is disturbing to hear that little has changed in that regard. On the other hand, it is very welcome to hear about the change to the Garda youth diversion programme, GYDP, and its opening up to children as young as eight, which is so important. Having noted all of that, I want to ask about the impact of the pandemic on the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Process (22 Mar 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...2022. Work on the finer detail of the legislation is ongoing and the Department continues to engage closely with the Office of the Attorney General and all relevant stakeholders, including An Garda Síochána. Both the Minister and the Department are committed to finalising the Bill as expeditiously as possible. Cabinet approval was secured in July 2022 to legislate for the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 – Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 – Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...support that. Significant work is being done on the new strategy and the link with how services have been covered with Tusla. On a related point in respect of the youth justice strategy and the Garda youth diversion office, one of the big problems over the years has been follow-up with Tusla where a decision is taken not to prosecute a child but to refer him or her for therapy,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (31 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...through his legislation on coercive control. People said there was no point, that one could not prosecute a pattern, an idea or a set of behaviours, but that was shown to be wrong. I commend the Garda for following up and prosecuting what people said could not be prosecuted, that is, that controlling and manipulative set of behaviours. So much of this issue is rooted in education....

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...and to see a bus burning on O'Connell Bridge and to see the scale of violence and people terrorised in their shops was heartbreaking. I have also worked in youth justice since 2006 and know the Garda youth diversion programme has worked for 95% of the young people who come into it. It is incredibly effective but I feel I saw that night the 5% whom State interventions did not and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (19 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...new moments of risk and threat can be created throughout the criminal justice process. It is really important that the Department is aware of that and of the safety needs of individuals, as I know An Garda Síochána is. There can be a requirement for people to go into safe and protected spaces at different stages of the criminal justice process. I ask that the Department...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (4 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...justice and enforcement perspective about the need for these measures. We have discussed proportionality and the time-limited nature of it with the Minister, as well as the necessity for the Garda to have in its arsenal the capacity to enforce the regulations on foot of legislation passed by the House. Without the capacity to enforce these regulations, we would undermine entirely the...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...Many are fleeing violence elsewhere only to meet new violence in Ireland, daily violence committed by perpetrators, members of organised crime gangs and others. For fear of the criminals who control them, these women often fear the Garda, which has made so many renewed efforts to help and offer welfare interventions. These efforts have been highlighted as important and positive...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...EU Drugs Agency. Ireland supports that mechanism through the early warning and emerging trends network, EWET, which has representatives from the Department of Health, the Department of Justice, An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prison Service, the Health Research Board, the HSE, several national laboratories, and civil society representatives. Naloxone is used as an antidote to...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...opportunity to highlight the issue of domestic violence and ask three simple questions of the Minister. I will give some background. I refer to the expansion of the safe intervention units by gardaí, such as the one in Dún Laoghaire, for intervening safely in case of domestic abuse and coercive control; access to the courts for victims of domestic abuse; and the question of...

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...Christmas period is the use by perpetrators of welfare checks to continue to exert control. That occurs in a situation where the victim has left the partner but the partner continues to use the offices of an Garda to check on the welfare of the child, causing enormous distress and disruption to the family. This can often happen during the Christmas period and indeed on Christmas Day....

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: .... There is concern around security. It is not apparent from a policy perspective that we are having a conversation around security, either in terms of delivery or design considerations. The Garda Síochána Act 2004 indicates that gardaí have jurisdiction as far out as the continental shelf, but we need a policy conversation about how that will work and where security will...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (30 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...in that regard. I have been in this position for nearly a year now and I have been speaking to businesses, the insurance companies, the Alliance for Insurance Reform, business owners and the Garda fraud squad, I have been watching every different metric, and I keep hearing there are some solicitors and firms that are routinely not accepting outcomes from PIAB. That causes me great...