Results 61-80 of 138 for garda speaker:Gerard Craughwell

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: .... That is simply not good enough. Level of Ambition 2 is about two years old and we still see no development in that area. We still see the numbers falling and now we are beginning to see the number of Garda falling. I asked not so long ago for a debate with the Department of public expenditure and reform on the pension scheme. The post-2013 pension scheme is killing the uniformed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...be purchased right now on the dark web. Surely, our Internet service and communications providers have an obligation. On the current use of masked telephone numbers, I have had messages from An Garda Síochána that I know had no reference but it had the magic 61 number. The classic one is a colleague who got a text one night to tell him his daughter was in dire straits, lost...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...nationalities, namely, Syrian, UK or Irish. At the end of the day, this places us in a rather precarious position. When Ms Smith returns to this country she will be a subject of interest for An Garda Síochána which is something that must concern every citizen. There is valuable information to be got on how she became radicalised and finished up where she did. I am not going...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: I compliment the Taoiseach and thank him for being a man of his word. Yesterday we saw a joint exercise between the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána. That is to be welcomed. It is something I have been calling for for a long time. The exercise went very well and we owe compliments to the Chief of Staff and the members of the Defence Forces who showed themselves to be ready,...

Seanad: EU-UK Relations: Statements (22 Jun 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: ...concerns me is the loss of corporate knowledge on the management of the Border in the event of a Brexit. We once had the military patrolling our Borders. We had customs on our Borders and we had Garda stations reinforced on the Border. At a conference I attended recently in Dundalk these were the issues alluded to. I have some concern about it. Will the Minister advise us on whether...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Tagging (21 Mar 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: ...anything that was of value, went out the back door, climbed over my garden wall and got away. My garden wall is the best part of 10 ft. high on that person's side. We were promised that Stepaside Garda station would reopen. At a recent public meeting, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport stated it was not a question of "if" but of "when". That would help to some degree in our...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Public Sector Pensions (20 Jul 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. The truth is that I could bring in a list of people who have retired from the public service in education, health, the Garda, the Army and various other places, many of whom are back working in the public service through agencies and are suffering no abatement whatsoever. Then there is a small number who came directly into a public service job...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...issues relating to aviation. She must be aware of the change in the law that took effect on 1 January as a result of a European directive on security clearance for people working at airports. The Garda vetting system is breaking down. Employers do not know who to contact. They do not know how to expedite for clearance people who are brought in to work. We presume, although we do not...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: ...House. I appreciate that matters of national security cannot be disclosed in a general way to the public but it beggars belief that the two agencies in this country charged with national security, the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces, and the general officer commanding the Air Corps, who is statutorily charged with being the sole director of military aviation in Ireland,...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: .... First, it would want to be a very lucky ricochet and second, the accidental discharge of the weapon is something that must be questioned and answered. An investigation was carried out by former Garda Commissioner Eugene Crowley and that report was handed to the then Minister for Justice in 1988. I listened to that man's family speak on a radio programme on Sunday morning. If nothing...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...people all of the time who are asking me if we have nothing better to do. We have hospital overruns. I am blue in the face talking about the search and rescue service. We have problems in An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces. We have problems in education. What we should be talking about in here, and I would ask the Acting Leader to consider putting this forward for...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Gerard Craughwell: ...man in Salthill in Galway witnessing a stand-off one night outside the Hangar ballroom between a group of thugs from Dublin on one side and a group of thugs from Galway on the other. There was one garda on his own standing in the middle but neither group would move because he was there. Where have we gone? Today, we have a situation where thugs wander around Dublin city with firearms....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...Leader on their appointments. The changing of the guard seems to have been seamless, which is great. I will see what I can do to disrupt that as time goes on.My colleague was speaking about An Garda Síochána. It is finding it extremely difficult to recruit people, as are the Defence Forces. The problem is the 2013 pension. There is no incentive for anybody to join either An...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: It is relevant when we are talking about the Garda. We need to know who is responsible for what because we do not know. My colleague is 100% correct. We have been raising for months the issue of who is in charge of intelligence and security in this country. The bottom line is that there is an opportunity now to open the conversation. If we are not going to change the Bill, there is an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jun 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the early recipients of the allowance. Some sort of a deal was struck. The Defence Forces is not the first State organisation within which something like this has happened. In the case of the Garda, a number of officers who retired many years ago were not allowed to carry their pensions forward. There is also the issue of pension abatement that was originally designed to stop high-paid...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...street. I have two granddaughters, Ellie and Isabel. I cannot imagine what it would take to explain to either of them the brutality by which the woman died. It is now a matter for the courts and Garda, so I will say no more about it. I was delighted to hear Senator Cummins speak about search and rescue services. I am aware that 17 of the south-eastern representatives have come...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: There has been much talk about the capture of the drugs vessel off the coast of Cork. We rightly commend the Defence Forces, the Garda, the Revenue and everyone else who was involved on their work. There was fantastic co-operation across the board. However, have we thought about what would have gone wrong if there had been weapons on board that ship and the helicopter involved in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...road traffic violation, the person would be called to court. That would happen where the fine was not paid. If people had not received the notice properly, the case would be struck out. Has the Garda done anything to improve the delivery of notices of breaches of traffic law and stop this happening?

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...of State goes back to his office today, he needs to pick up the phone and ring the head of Revenue and the Minister of State in the Department of Justice and Equality and get them to ring An Garda Síochána. Let us bring them together in a room, sit down and see what we can do without the warnings I am looking for to limit the ripping-off of people. The sum of €27.3...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: I compliment the Minister of State on taking board the issue of cybersecurity, but we need to start seeing it from a much more macro perspective. We should compliment the Garda on reversing at least some of the damage done to the HSE. The Minister of State said a few moments ago that money was a bit of a red herring. I am appalled to hear him say that. Malta, one of the smallest countries...