Results 7,101-7,120 of 14,127 for speaker:David Stanton
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Services Programme (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: 71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reopen the community services programme to new applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1346/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: As we have a quorum we shall commence the meeting in public session. I wish to take this opportunity to welcome members back after the recess. I hope everybody had a good break and I wish members and their families all the best for 2015. I hope we will have a good year and that we will get as much work done this year as we did in 2014. Apologies have been received from Deputies Anne Ferris,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: I thank Mr. Olson and congratulate him on summarising the report in a few short pages. We agreed at a previous meeting that we would invite members to ask three questions. Deputy McGrath suggested that initially. Each member can ask three questions and get answers and then we will move on to someone else. We can return to the original member if he or she wants to ask further questions, as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: There is a mobile phone interfering with the system. Could everyone double-check that all their telephones are off or on aeroplane mode?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: Third question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: I think it is the courts that decide bail and not gardaí.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: We made a similar recommendation in one of our own reports. It is an interesting idea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: I will take the Senator's second question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: Mr. Toland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: I thank Mr. Olson and he can comment later if he wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: I thank Ms Kirby and she can comment later if she wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: Second question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: As Deputy Mac Lochlainn has said it was one of the recommendations in our report. Sorry, I understand the Deputy has a third question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: The Deputy always asks loaded questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: Thank you. We will come back again if you have more questions later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: Are there any further questions? There is so much in this report that we could probably spend three days discussing it. I would like to put a few questions. Mention has been made of the opportunity to develop a single intelligence unit for national support services. This concerns intelligence matters, such as those issues that have been observed in France recently and major atrocities....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: Some comments have been made on the issue of neighbourhood watch and that area. How does the inspectorate see development taking place in this area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: Co-ordination between the Courts Service, the DPP, the Probation Service and so on has been raised. We hear anecdotal complaints from members of the public about how a garda must spend all day in court only to have a case adjourned with resulting time and resource waste and management issues. Mr. Olson has some things to say on that. Could he outline his points?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate (14 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: We have given it a good run. At least, we dipped our toe in the water. There is so much there and it is so comprehensive. Again, I join with colleagues in congratulating the Garda Inspectorate on the fantastic work it has done on this and thanking the witnesses for their time here today. I echo the points made by Mr. Olson at the beginning that the rank and file of the gardaí do such...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (20 Jan 2015)
David Stanton: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all land and sites owned by her Department in the east Cork area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2452/15]