Results 61-80 of 86 for garda speaker:Shane Cassells

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...million are not falling directly under the Office of the President but are being spent on that office. It is a bit like local government, with money being spent on other areas. Is it the case that the Garda Commissioner would, for example, consider last week's situation of someone going straight through the gates and saying "Hello" to the President and decide that the security...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Shane Cassells: In terms of the crackdown on fraud, Ms O'Donoghue spoke about the work of the Garda within the Department as well. I would like to hear about the measures taken because when there is an upturn, small business people who are operating legitimately are paying their taxes, expenses, VAT and rates but if people in the black economy are undercutting or undermining them and also claiming benefits,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...was concerned about - governance and culture. If one is swimming against the tide of the culture - he pointed to the fact that he was convinced there was and still may be a culture in parts of the Garda Síochána of not admitting to problems - problems persist in trying to keep them in-house and away from transparent public scrutiny. Will the Commissioner outline how she...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Shane Cassells: ...change. In our instance, Chief Superintendent John Dollard brings his entire senior leadership team to these meetings. As a result of that kind of leadership, we have proper engagement with An Garda Síochána in the Meath division. That synergy between local representatives, An Garda Síochána, the executive of our councils and Oireachtas Members produces results and...

Seanad: Crime and Policing: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Shane Cassells: The Minister is welcome to the Chamber. Back in 2017, at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts, of which I was a member, we had the then Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, before us, and she spoke of her belief that the streets were inherently safe and of how there was not an issue in the country. Her comments came in the same week that the local newspaper of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...separately so he knows the score. This evening I would like the Minister for Justice and Equality to back the chief superintendent and the people of Meath in this cause. One big concern is that any new gardaí coming into Meath will immediately be gobbled up by the big population centres in Navan and Ashbourne. I can understand that. I am from Navan. I know the pressure the area...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Divisional Headquarters (31 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I have raised the issue of Garda resources in Meath on several occasions with the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, in this Chamber but that was specifically to do with the personnel requirements for our county which still rank as the lowest in the county, a fact confirmed on Monday of this week when the chief superintendent confirmed that resources allocated to Kildare have relegated us to bottom...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (5 Dec 2017)

Shane Cassells: I am a politician, not a garda, but I hear what the chief superintendent in Meath is saying clearly on behalf of our county. I do not dispute the progress we have made. I attended the launch of the consultation paper on the processes associated with future policing in the State, which was attended by the Minister and Ms Kathleen O'Toole, head of the Commission on the Future of Policing in...

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Finance): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Shane Cassells: ...autumn when kids go back to school. I attended a joint policing committee meeting for more than three hours last week, when our new chief superintendent spoke about how he wants to be obsessed not with creating physical Garda stations but with having a simple philosophy of putting gardaí on the street. The speech he made last Monday in Navan will be made a reality as a result of...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Minister for taking this topical issue on the need for additional Garda resources for County Meath. To cut to the chase, I very much appreciate that the Minister is dealing with the macro issue of putting more gardaí into the system and ensuring the security of our country is strengthened even further. One of the key tenets of the confidence and supply agreement was to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...the information suppressed? Who was making sure that people such as Mr. Barrett were having to put in FOIs? There is a fear here that by attacking the force, we are attacking every junior garda. We are not. We are trying to find out who is fuelling that culture because Mr. Kelly's report speaks for itself. What I believe people want to hear from this committee is the chain of...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Shane Cassells: ...areas. That was replicated in a different discussion when we had a conversation about identity theft that resulted in sexually explicit material being used. When the person concerned went to the Garda as their first point of contact, the gardaí were not adept at dealing with the issues at play. There were a range of areas where those who were the first points of contacts for people...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...of County Meath. Those towns are right down on the border with County Offaly. They could not be more isolated from my home town of Navan and it takes nearly an hour to get to them. Their nearest Garda station is in Trim, which is 40 minutes away, yet one could cycle a bike to Rhode just across the county border. They feel isolated in terms of the co-ordination of all State services, be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...close to the OPW headquarters in Trim, that has vacant sites. I am repeatedly told there is no money to provide that. I can tell Mr. Buckley that €11 million would do a good deal for that. I have a Garda chief superintendent who is looking for a divisional headquarters in Meath but there is no progress on that or even a straight answer from the OPW in respect of the site...

Seanad: Protection of Private Residences (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...instances and that is regrettable. It is also regrettable that this Bill is even needed and that we are debating today the issue of respecting the privacy of the home. I note the comments of the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Drew Harris, yesterday. He recognised that protests are a lawful part of our society but said that protections are needed. Like Senator Malcolm Byrne, I look forward to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (27 Mar 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...Accounts. The Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach is answerable on the Office of the President but he does not answer for all the other additional expenditure. I refer, for example, to the Garda, which is the responsibility of the Department of Justice and Equality, and the OPW, which comes under the remit of the Department of Finance. It is just like local government,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Shane Cassells: ...scenes in Dublin at the weekend caused anger and resentment, especially among restaurants and bars that are compliant. When I went out in my home town on Saturday night for a meal, members of the Garda came onto the premises to inspect it and make sure it was compliant. Yesterday, while in County Meath, Commissioner Drew Harris talked about the fact that a significant number in the force...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...known that he was in a different decade given the testimony we have listened to. Keeping to the report around which the Chairman has asked us to frame our remarks, recommendation No. 4 says that, "Garda Staff assigned to administrative roles in the College had no training or experience in administration ... no knowledge of Public Financial Procedures (the Blue Book) [as Mr. Howard said,...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Shane Cassells: ...body, whetter they are local authority members, Oireachtas Members or community leaders, do their best to make sure the towns and cities in which we live achieve the cohesiveness that is required and An Garda Síochána listens to all those voices in order that policing, with which we have been so lucky for a century, will be done by consent rather than by force for the next...