Results 81-100 of 834 for garda speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (23 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 50. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the total moneys collected by An Garda Síochána in respect of moneys paid by event organisers for the provision of security services and the policing of sporting and other events for each of the years 2015 and 2016; the total amount of moneys collected for both years which was subsequently re-allocated to members of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 883. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the recent resignation of a person (details supplied) from the Garda Reserve force; if his attention has been further drawn to suggestions that inadequate training and insufficient resourcing of the local Garda division contributed to the person's decision to quit the role; his plans to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is. I appreciate that. I have raised another issue in the same vicinity with the Minister of State previously. Numerous Garda stations have been closed down by previous Governments and some are lying idle. One of them is the old Bunbeg Garda station, which was hit by lightning. It was not actually closed down by the Government; it was hit by lightning. It is in a bad state. Is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Garda carried out a review to find out, I presume, how many people were being wrongly prosecuted. It would then have had to tell them that they should not have been prosecuted and to make right the errors. However, it carried out a review starting on 1 January 2014. What was the sense in that, given that the fixed charge notices had been introduced many years before in 2006? The...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that the €5 million rent could be used to rent another building but let us be clear, Harcourt Square is the nerve centre of the Garda, it is where CAB is located. It is not just a case of going to another building, but replacing the entire infrastructure that has been built up over many years. When one looks at the allocation for refurbishments, it does not include a sum...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: ...State is dealing with all the different recommendations and precedent and all the rest. At the extreme level it could be viewed as the privatisation to a certain nature of a certain section of the Garda. We know that in respect of the Central Bank, that regulation was being funded by the industry itself led to, in a sense, regulatory capture during a period of time. This is not the way...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (11 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the competition for the selection of garda trainees initiated in January 2016, the number of applicants to whom an order of merit was awarded after having been placed within the top 200 ranking of applicants have subsequently been accepted to undergo the relevant garda training programme; if similar such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting (20 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to revise the current Garda vetting process for substitute teaching positions requiring that candidates undergo Garda vetting requirements in order to simplify the relevant procedures with the view to minimising, in so far as possible and without diminishing the robust and crucial scrutiny of candidates, the...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (20 Jan 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will introduce equity in pension entitlements between members of An Garda Síochána who left the force prior to 1 October 1976 and civil servants who left the public service prior to 1 June 1973 all of whom had five years service in view of the inequity in respect of former members of An Garda Síochána arising from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Given Fine Gael's disastrous handling of policing and justice and the reduction in the number of gardaí we have also seen in County Donegal, whether you look at the figures from 2002, 2012 or the past three years the numbers for our county have gone down. On top of that more than one in ten is out sick. These are either people who have been assaulted or injured in the course of their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that the Minister of State has put new information on the record. I submitted a parliamentary question to the Minister for Justice, which gave me the breakdown of every Garda station in the Gaeltacht regions, including County Donegal. It comprised more than 300 gardaí in County Donegal and suggested there were only nine with Gaelic as a native language or with proficiency. I...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (9 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that and in relation to ... did you give any thought to the fact that you were making a public statement that this dinner and this discussion happened in an open forum in a hotel with a Garda driver present where, indeed, the substantial discussion happened in a private residence behind closed doors with no garda present and only the Taoiseach and three other connected senior...

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: ...issue. We have contradictory information, which raises more questions, particularly given the Tánaiste's interview on RTÉ. She now tells us that she was aware in May 2015 that legal counsel for the Garda Commissioner was making allegations of a serious criminal nature against Sergeant McCabe and was also claiming that this complaint had not been investigated. We hear that...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2011)

Pearse Doherty: .... Among the most effective things we could do are to allow people to register up until the day of the vote, with appropriate safeguards in place; have registration days in colleges; and get the Garda to go into colleges on certain days to register people for postal votes. At present, the timeframes involved are too tight and cumbersome and people are unable to get to Garda stations on...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...to scrutinise its proposal. Certainty could save jobs in this area. Timing is important to that. I welcome the Minister's statement on the fraud squad and private industry resourcing part of An Garda Síochána. I raised the issue on the day the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, announced his report. It was an ill-thought-out suggestion to be included. We have wasted much time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Small and Medium Businesses: Discussion (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: May I clarify that for the benefit of the committee? The information is from the Minister for Justice and Equality. We have got the information from the Garda. The Minister says that in the period between 1 October 2018 and 28 February 2019, there were 19 incidents of insurance companies reporting insurance claim fraud as per the stated guidelines. An Garda Síochána has advised...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Strength (17 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: ...to understand rural areas. It is not about the size of the station but about the presence and service it provides. Culdaff, Dunkineely and Doochary are wee villages and do not need a massive Garda station, but they need the service. The service was taken away from them by the Government. The Minister said it is a question of smart policing. If people could see that the closures of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...on this. Fraud in all forms has to be stamped out. AXA has a big part on its website about how fraud is increasing year on year, but the reality is that only 48 cases were referred to the Garda last year and only 63 cases the year before. There has actually been a reduction in the number of cases that have been referred to the Garda for fraud. If insurance companies are telling us they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Pearse Doherty: If they are challenging them because they think they are fraudulent, they have a responsibility, regardless of their challenge, to report that to the Garda under section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act. What about the cases we hear of where someone is in court, he or she has been involved in an accident - or may not have been involved where it may have been staged or whatever or he or she has...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...happen. It is akin to saying that we will build a broadband network and not take into account the capacity of population growth, future needs or future demands. In 2016, there were 200 more gardaí assigned to headquarters in Harcourt Street. There were over 1,000 gardaí, which was the official figure that was given, and this building was built for 880. Growth in population...