Results 81-100 of 487 for garda speaker:Mattie McGrath

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...unease about it through several Governments for three decades. All of the evidence points to a high level cover up, involving all of the institutions of the State, including, sadly, elements of An Garda Síochána, the Judiciary, politicians, the health service and the Catholic Church. The main point is that we want to get to the bottom of this sordid affair. Fr. Niall Molloy...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There was only one meeting. Counsel for An Garda Síochána were raising serious matters, false allegations, against Sergeant McCabe at the time in an effort to discredit him, and his motivations for revealing serious misconduct within An Garda Síochána. Everyone was aware of this at the time from media reports and his own statements and also from meeting Sergeant McCabe...

Domestic Violence Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (25 Apr 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...fora as well. It is a problem for both those who are male and those who are female, though mainly the latter as we have seen from horrific cases in the past. The situation in Dundalk in which a garda lost his life while protecting a very distressed and traumatised woman was mentioned. On facilities in Garda stations, I see the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, is present. He knows from his...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Mar 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...home on Friday morning, the penalty notice had arrived to my office. I make it clear that I did not ring anybody and nobody rang me to say I could, should or would have the points removed. To be fair to gardaí and members of local authorities, I do not think they go around ringing people to tell them how to get off penalty points or rudaí mar sin. The Garda vetting system is...

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking about the facts. The Minister has shown total disdain for An Garda Síochána. I want to kill the lie that gardaí walked out on the Croke Park agreement. Members of an Garda Síochána have no rights in any negotiations, whether on the Croke Park agreement or otherwise. They were there to listen to SIPTU, IMPACT and others who could tell them what was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 409. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of repossessions and evictions of a private house or property attendance requests that were made to An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the person or body that made the requests that is, distressed borrower or evictor, broken down per Garda district in tabular form;...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...will be driven completely to penury. The Revenue Commissioners and banks will be after these people, along with sheriffs and illegal bandits recovering debts. Those bandits are not subject to any Garda clearance. If a person is to work in a crèche or on a FÁS scheme sweeping the road, there must be Garda clearance-----

Topical Issues: Bank Codes of Conduct (6 Dec 2012)

Mattie McGrath: They had no identification, no security tags and are not Garda-checked. Moreover, the Garda Síochána are not prepared to deal with them and are unable to so do. I am not attacking the gardaí as they do not understand the code of practice. These activities must be outed. Our people are struggling in the face of another austerity budget this week and yet these thugs are being...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I was delighted to be able to speak earlier during the expressions of sympathy for Detective Garda Horkan. Like the late Garda Detective Horkan, many gardaí are left to work alone, as Deputies Lowry and O'Donoghue said. I support the proposed measures and Deputy McNamara's amendment providing for a proper and decent independent review. All legislation needs a timely review. ...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: This infamous email was sent on the afternoon of 15 May 2015. That was the very day that the O'Higgins commission adjourned for half an hour in order that the barrister for the Garda Commissioner could get instructions as to whether he was to continue this aggressive line of attacking Sergeant McCabe. Was the Tánaiste told about this and did she object to the strategy taken by the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms and Ammunition Security (18 Feb 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 549. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the proposals submitted to him by the An Garda Síochána seeking new legislation to ban almost all handguns which are currently licensed, including centre fire and most of those .22 calibres which are on the Garda Commissioner’s list of unrestricted handguns; and the proposals which seek the banning of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I will give the Taoiseach the roster I was given. It has the facts and is from a member of the Garda Síochána who is afraid for his community and the people he wants to police. I am astonished with the Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, because he has not engaged with the GRA or anybody else. The GRA stated the Government’s policing reform plan looks like it has been...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: ...Christmas. I realise the staff work all night trying to get Bills and things arranged. The Business Committee agrees on something but it is torn up the morning after. I acknowledge the new Garda force in Dublin and the new equipment and recruitment for Templemore. The Garda station in Clonmel is Dickensian and not fit for purpose. A new station for Clonmel was announced some years...

Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: I refer to the 11 key deficiencies that pointed to disturbing system failures within the Garda force. The report raises fundamental issues about the Garda Síochána, how investigation of criminal cases was carried out and the responses to serious concerns which were raised about them. There are serious questions around the nature of Garda management, governance and oversight, basic...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (7 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the attempts by An Garda Síochána to ban a number of classes of firearms; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a judge (details supplied) recently took the unusual step of issuing a lengthy written judgment regarding firearms, the contents of which raise a great many serious questions for the Garda;...

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...what we are hearing from the tallies in Meath East, to be the sensible voice in the Government and try to intervene in this unseemly mess that has descended into a shambles, that is, the situation regarding An Garda Síochána vis-à-vis the Commissioner and the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter. This is totally unacceptable and it has damaged morale to a...

Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...but I cannot hear him. Every vehicle on the road must be taxed. One would think from what speakers have said that half the county was driving untaxed vehicles and if stopped they were going to Garda stations to get a garda to sign something for them. That is a disgraceful supposition to be making. It casts a slight on the people and on the Garda Síochána. It is terrible....

Commission of Investigation relating to disclosures by members of An Garda Síochána: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...from his own representative. Is mór an trua that he did not have the patience to wait for it. I welcome the commission. It is very important that any wrongdoing is addressed. I have met Garda Wilson and Sergeant McCabe and I know David Taylor and his family, who are a decent family from Tipperary. They are entitled to their good names. A good name is all one is entitled to in...

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2013)

Mattie McGrath: ...to get someone to listen. When will we have a situation where there will an independent mediator or, as happens in other countries, a board set up between the Minister, the Commissioner and the Garda Síochána to de-politicise the issues involved between Ministers of all hues? The Minister has shown no respect whatsoever. I have a serious question to ask. Has the Minister for...

Army Barracks (21 Jun 2012)

Mattie McGrath: ...which I am not happy about. He also gave only one figure of €36,000 when the question requested three figures. He did not even answer the last part of the question on the relocation of the Garda station in Clonmel. The gardaí based there are working in a hovel, a third world premises which is not fit for purpose of any shape, make or form and access for the public is disgraceful....