Results 761-780 of 9,163 for speaker:Jack Chambers
- Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: I understand where Deputy O'Sullivan is coming from. On Committee Stage, I raised the prescriptive nature of the consultative process that may have to occur. What the Minister of State said then was that there is a proper process of consultation, in the context of the Garda and the various stakeholders, which occurs through the regulations that are published. On Committee Stage, the...
- Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: I hear the points Deputies Maureen O'Sullivan and Ó Snodaigh have made. The Minister of State should justify her opposition to this. I do not think we should fear the Dáil discussing this every two years or having a report come before it with regard to how it is working, what the issues might be and how we can make it work better in the context of rehabilitation and harm...
- Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: I seek clarification. Is the word "review" or "renew"?
- Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Just on a point of clarification, the Minister of State made reference to "review" but the amendment refers to "renewal". That is a more positive term than "review", which has negative connotations. The amendment calls for the renewal of the Act, in the context of public safety. That is what is written in the amendment before us. It is quite a positive amendment in the context of what we...
- Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Renewal is very different to review in terms of what has been said.
- Other Questions: Garda Strength (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: 8. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the drug squad numbers in each Garda division for each of the past five years and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15750/17]
- Other Questions: Garda Strength (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the drugs squad numbers in each division, for each of the past five years and to date in 2017, and if she will make a statement on the matter. We have seen how drugs squad personnel numbers have haemorrhaged in recent years with certain districts such as Cavan and Monaghan without any drugs unit at all. Given the massive amount of gangland activity in...
- Other Questions: Garda Strength (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: I agree with the Tánaiste and echo her point about the Criminal Assets Bureau. In terms of staffing allocations, in the five years in which we saw a haemorrhaging of numbers in the divisional drug units, the Criminal Assets Bureau kept the number of gardaí allocated to it and its budget remained relatively stable. That was a portion of justice policy that delivered and kept the...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: 37. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda Reserve numbers in each Garda division for each of the past five years and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15751/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: I thank the Commissioner and senior management team for coming before us. My first question is on the part of their statement where they mention that the past decade was one of wrongdoing. They refer to the fixed charge notice period from 2006 onwards, but they talk about figures from 2009 onwards for breath-testing, with PULSE and Dräger breathalyser data. Can the witnesses outline...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Where were they recorded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: What was it categorised with?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: What was it categorised with at that time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: What was breath-testing categorised as from 2006 to 2009?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Sorry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Did the Garda have any oversight for breath-testing between 2006 and 2009?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: So there was no data available on breath-testing from 2006 to 2009? Did the Garda have any metric available for breath-testing data at that time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Did the Garda have checkpoint data at the time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Does Mr. Finn not know? Was there checkpoint data at that time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Is Mr. Finn not sure if there was checkpoint data at that time?