Results 41-55 of 55 for garda speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...off buying a cigarette to calm them down than buying all the illegal drugs that are available but which the Government is doing nothing about? It is not giving the proper enforcement powers to the Garda to help it catch the people who are selling illegal drugs. Would it not put the revenue raised by the 50 cents increase into Garda services? Would it not put the revenue into measures...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: In order to get extra people on the ground, we need to tackle the issue where, if a garda is on a shift and if there is an arrest, for example, for antisocial behaviour, a car accident or whatever it is he or she has to do, approximately three hours of that garda's day then turns into paperwork. Those three hours are spent behind doors where he or she is not visible. To counteract that we...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...for machinery. Contractors in this country do about 70% of the work for the farmers but it gave nothing to the contractors for machinery, which could reduce costs for farmers getting work done. Let us look then at the Garda. We are going to have 1,000 extra gardaí. The Garda cannot keep the ones it has. They are counting the days and hours to get out because 98.7% have no...

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...discussed how to get people back to work safely and make sure that things can be done safely. A product is available which is used in Germany. It was used in hospitals in Cork yesterday and by Garda services in Ireland. The Government has not replied to the company since September. Some €1.2 million has been spent for us to talk in the Convention Centre, when we could have...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...done to improve them bar a sign being put up to say it is an accident black spot. We have a lack of policing on our roads due to the Commissioner and the Minister not listening to 97.8% of the gardaí that police this country. That is a statistic of which the Government should be aware. Another statistic relates to the lack of Garda services. I and councillors around the country...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...taking children to such events, the carbon tax is an unjust tax. If we look at any of the services that are within the Government's remit currently, such as the ambulance service, fire service and the Garda, none of them have electric vehicles, because they would not be able to do their jobs. In the middle of a chase, gardaí would have to stop for a few minutes to plug in the car...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...ambulance cars who have not been rostered in the community? How many calls per week or per month do the supervisory officers make or attend? I am calling for a full review of the service, like a Garda division. There needs to be a front-line medical section and a clerical section. As training of an advanced paramedic is quite specialised, why does the National Ambulance Service expect...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (28 Jun 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...and corruption. It has not been made accountable. What will the Minister for Health do to prevent future harm to the public in this hospital in the meantime? Will the Minister for Health ask the Garda to conduct a criminal investigation into the situation? The people of the mid-west have the right to attend a hospital where patient safety comes first.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...has taken the increase from them; and it has taken extra tax from them because of the increase in their wages. The Government has actually given them nothing and all it has done is driven inflation, and the Government is the only one that is going to get extra tax. We then come to the Garda. The Government talks about 1,000 extra gardaí. Gardaí are leaving in their droves...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...will meet officially or unofficially. If the hotels, pubs and restaurants are open, we will have traceability and accountability. The Government should work with what it has. There are 14,000 gardaí in Ireland, plus trainees. If the Government worked out the timetable, it would find out that at any one time we have a maximum of 6,000 gardaí on duty. That is approximately...

Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...system when people are making their lodgements, the banks try to hold these notes. These notes should be brought back out, given to the person that has them, and the people should then be going to the Garda directly themselves in order to try to trace these notes to make these people accountable and to try to help the self-employed people in this country. At the end of the day that is...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...ambulance run on fossil fuel. If there is a fire in a house, what comes to put out the fire? It is vehicles with fossil fuel engines. Our schools and most of our hospitals run on fossil fuels. Garda cars driving around the country are run on fossil fuel. People all want to make a difference, yet the Government cannot see that. The Minister of State needs to wake up. Deputy Collins...

Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...2018. There appears to be significant funding available but its implementation seems to be an issue. As the Traveller community is such a significant grouping, is there not the possibility of An Garda Síochána recruiting some person from within the ranks of the community who could become a liaison officer within the force, as is the case with other groupings and ethnic...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: ...of Deputy Howlin, the rural Independents, and all the others who came here to amend the legislation to ensure it is correct and proper. We are rushing through legislation to allow more powers for gardaí, but currently the same gardaí are telling us they cannot do their job properly because they spend most of their day sitting down trying to do paperwork. If there is to be...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...acknowledged and that the facts are put on record so that such things cannot happen again. Whatever investigation takes place, it is essential that it does not impede inquiries being carried out by An Garda Síochána. This hits home for everyone in this room, across the House and in all parties. It hits home when you see people who entrusted their children to a school only for...