Results 61-80 of 81 for garda speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...issue for a small baby, but for the parents it is also a human rights issue and certainly my experience of how a disability was contextualised was negative. A number of services, for example, An Garda Síochána, are being encouraged to undertake training on the person-centred, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, idea of people with different...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...influential in both decision-making and policy-making. It would be helpful for the authority to set out what it considers when it sets annual policing priorities and performance targets for An Garda Síochána. We will also bring data collection into that discussion. Looking at the information before us, there has already been consideration of quantitative reviews or KPIs that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ..., my understanding of the 2020 legislation on intimidation and harassment is that it kind of relies on a catalogue or recording of multiple instances. That is coming down the line towards the Garda. It seems to me that what the witnesses are describing is such that there would have to be three engagements with an individual before any actual record of engagement. Am I right in thinking...

Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to get in a data question, which is one I very often ask the HSE, the Garda or any forum to do with justice. Do the two organisations feel they have access to data about what is really happening? Is anyone collecting data from our guests' organisations about what is happening? Who is collecting the data and how complex are those data? It is important in health-led approaches that we...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...outline the communications framework between the National Cyber Security Centre, the Office of the Data Protection Commission, the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, OGCIO, and An Garda Síochána? I have been reading the cybersecurity strategy published in 2019 quite carefully and I still cannot get a hold on what is happening between all the groups that are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: My response to that, if the Garda was here, would be that, until a case is prosecuted and tested, that cannot really be known. Sending it to the DPP just creates a kind of artificial barrier before the law even gets tested. If we continue to use the DPP as that barrier, we will never get to the point where it gets challenged and tested. It is very useful to do that. I have outlined my...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...2020 at a meeting of this committee, I believe. It would seem to me that trauma-supported or trauma-led care of people in homelessness is quite a complex issue. A bare minimum would be to include Garda vetting as part of a service level agreement when entering into a contract with a private provider. We are now two years into that discussion. Mr. Doyle has said he does not have his...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (21 Mar 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...nothing to fear, and that you can also take up a job in those industries and be safe and protected. We have a security contingent in Dublin Airport that works well. It is not the same as the Garda but its members can detain anybody who is guilty of posing a threat to others. We need a joined-up process and strategy as people move more towards public transport into the future.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...agreement the Department has with local authorities or the service providers support a minimum standard of social care qualification and management to be qualified in trauma informed care? No Garda vetting is required for staff working in the settings. Does the Department believe this is appropriate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...of access for safeguarding and protection that social work teams would have where there are privatised services? Never mind staff trained for social work, as some of these staff may not even have Garda vetting.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Under core activities in the statement of strategy, policing reform and community safety are cited four times. This week, the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána stated that the far right is not growing. That may appear to be the case from the Commissioner's office, but to migrants it very much feels like it is growing. The Constitution protects the right of people who live in this...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I take that point, although considering how long we have been waiting for the report on the Tánaiste I am not sure I believe the Garda will be looking at dates on particular forms. I wish to discuss the use of the phrase "chemical restraint". The phrase "chemical restraint" may suggest perhaps not malicious intent but that it is not about the best care of the patient but about the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Traffic Offences (4 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: .... I get consistent feedback from my constituents in Dublin Central that cars are increasingly pushing the limits of amber lights and outright breaking the red lights, sometimes at speed. An Garda Síochána does not have the proper resources to deal with this issue and it is not practical for it to do so. I can think of better ways for it to use its resources in Dublin Central....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: No, that is a very comprehensive way of answering. I will outline my concern on involving the DPP. From our interaction with the Garda, we gathered that there is concern about the implementation of this law. I have a concern that, if it becomes an established standard within this legislation to involve the DPP where it is not really in the public interest actually to prosecute, and there...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...am wondering what the process is. Who decides what we measure? Is there a process in the Policing Authority, for example, where there is a new undertaking? I will give an example. Last year An Garda Síochána formally established the organised prostitution unit. Sex work in general is a matter that I am very interested in. It would be interesting to have information...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: .... I would be interested to hear what the NTA is doing about camera-based bus lane enforcement. I have raised this issue in the Dáil. I appreciate that there are various parties involved, including the Garda, local authorities and the Departments of Transport and Justice. It seems that it crosses many Departments and that no one is necessarily taking the bull by the horns. Would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...appropriate medical body, she is being asked by the HSE to do the following: No. 1, supply proof of police clearance for any country resided in for more than a period of six months; No. 2, start a Garda vetting process; No. 3, provide name and contact details of three references; No. 4, provide a notarised copy of two forms of photographic proof of identification; No. 5, provide a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Good afternoon everyone. I will ask my questions and the witnesses may respond as they prefer. Before doing so, I reiterate the point made by Mr. Herrick that An Garda Síochána has been asked to walk a tightrope in the past year and has done so quite well but this is not a great long-term solution, as it puts much pressure on the force. In the submissions today we have heard...

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...are major problems there which need to be addressed and about which we need to be honest. It is very easy to point the finger and say that the problems are all the fault of Dublin City Council or of An Garda Síochána and that there are simple solutions such as better management or changing the management or changing our way of policing. Like so many simple solutions, they will...