Results 41-49 of 49 for garda speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...is an abhorrent practice. We must ask whether legislation is necessary. In the Dáil the Minister of State for Justice confirmed that no specific criminal offence exists for the practice, and the Garda confirmed for the housing committee that the PULSE system does not specifically record sex-for-rent complaints as a specific category. That is not surprising given that it is not a...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I join my colleagues across the House in expressing my heartfelt sympathy with the family and friends of Detective Garda Colm Horkan and his colleagues in An Garda Síochána. We stand with them today. I also commend everyone who worked hard to secure for Ireland a seat on the UN Security Council. It will provide an opportunity to show leadership on climate action and to be a...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: First Stage (8 Mar 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...outlined in it include imprisonment of up to seven years or a fine. The Minister for Justice has confirmed to the Dáil that no specific criminal offence for this practice currently exists. The Garda has informed the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage that the PULSE system does not record sex for rent complaints as a specific category. This is not surprising,...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...tours, a very responsible form of access, to have access to a key monument? Since 2007, only nine prosecutions have been taken by the Director of Public Prosecutions on the recommendation of An Garda Síochána for alleged offences under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014. Given the level of destruction that has been documented as having gone on, the fact there has been...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: ...there is not popular support for increasing the number of Deputies. This is something of which we are aware. Most people would like to see the resources going to other areas, be it employing more gardaí, nurses, doctors, teachers and speech and language therapists. If more resources were to go into democratic structures, there is a very strong case in Ireland for putting that into...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...try to divide us, which will not succeed. We have seen the efforts to try to attack the trans community in particular. Before I talk about that, I will welcome the work that has been done by the Garda and community leaders, especially people such as Oisín O'Reilly in Outhouse, to work together to address violence on the streets and have a co-ordinated response to tackle homophobic...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...who woke that Saturday morning to find their children’s beds empty. We cannot even begin to think what must have been going through their minds as they began the frantic search for their loved ones in Garda stations, hospitals and, sadly for some, at the makeshift morgue at the Dublin Coroner’s Court, where a tent had to be erected by the Army medical corps due to the...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...-old were left out on the streets at night as there was nowhere for them to go. When the volunteers rang the various homelessness agencies, the only advice they could give was that the families should go to a Garda station. That was the only advice because everywhere was full. This is the reality of the homelessness and housing situation right now. Over the weekend, we saw in the...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...on bed sheets and there has been a complaint from a privately run emergency accommodation operation in Dublin of a lack of duvets or bed sheets. We know that in many of them staff are not Garda-vetted or trained, there are no safeguarding policies or procedures in place and they are not checked for them. The Government should show us it is serious about homeless people by introducing...