Results 81-100 of 626 for garda speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...no axe to grind with her personally, but the person who has most to lament in this sorry saga is Sergeant Maurice McCabe who first had the bravery to make a complaint in 2006 about malpractice in An Garda Síochána. It is now 2017 and we still have not got to the bottom of how the institutions that are supposed to uphold justice sought to suppress an effort by a member of the...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Eacnamaíochta, Sóisialacha agus Cultúir), 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...programme in DIT. The programme enables students from disadvantaged backgrounds to attend third level education. As of this year, DIT is insisting that all students on the access programme have to be Garda vetted before entering the institution. This has never happened in any other college. The rest of the student body in DIT who enter through the normal CAO system are not Garda...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...weeks would hardly give people confidence. I read the transcript of the conversation between Oliver Connolly and Maurice McCabe yesterday, and it is extraordinary. This is about a member of the Garda who took his life in his hands and spoke out about what he believes to be widespread, endemic corruption in the Garda, not just about penalty points but about murders not being investigated...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have no particular difficulty with the individual nominations, although I do point to the point made by many people about gardaí investigating gardaí. I would like to see more civilian oversight of gardaí to ensure we genuinely have independence in oversight of the Garda and that it is perceived to be independent. Given the recognition and acknowledgement that we need a...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...about him, it could not be more serious. If there is even a scintilla of truth in this, heads have to roll right along the line. It calls into question the whole culture at a senior level in the Garda, particularly because he is alleging a continuation from Callinan through to the new Commissioner. He is suggesting we are not just dealing with a couple of rotten apples but potentially...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., when the asset strippers who took over that company walked away with £315 million sterling. At the end of that dispute, which the film highlights in the most shocking way, there was an enormous simultaneous Garda mobilisation to break the occupations and strikes in Henry Street, Cork, Limerick, Tralee, Waterford and so on. It was a massive Garda mobilisation to assist the company...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...what is being said. Will Mr. O'Brien tell the committee very simply in order that the people who are watching can understand if it is his opinion there was a leak at a high level within the Garda ombudsman's office of this report to the media and that the office is now looking for that mole? Is that correct?

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not really an answer. Reports have been circulating in the media about the Garda and a bill for €25 million for security for the visits. Nobody knows the figure - certainly I do not - but perhaps the Taoiseach knows whether that figure is part of such a cost or is the total considerably greater? Who will pay for it? Is it to come from the Taoiseach's Department? The public are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...generally and learn some lessons from it. In the case of George Nkencho, his family deserve an investigation into the circumstances of his shooting. The family of Terence Wheelock, who died in Garda custody in 2005, have been fighting for justice as regards how he died.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...compliant protest where they made it absolutely clear that they would be in their cars so as not to breach public health guidelines. Despite giving that clear assurance and communicating it to the Garda, on Wednesday, one of the representatives of the four national taxi groups received a call from Pearse Street Garda station in which they were informed that if taxi drivers turned up in...

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and when she knew it regarding what was, let us remember, an absolutely scurrilous campaign to try to destroy Mr. Maurice McCabe, a brave man who was trying to blow the whistle on wrongdoing in the Garda. We have not got a clear commitment on whether the Tánaiste will answer questions on these most serious matters. We have to have that commitment. We cannot proceed with the Order...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a serious issue. A small number of people, approximately seven, had access to a secret report, yet that report has found its way into the hands of the media and the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission is investigating the matter. That is a serious revelation. Mr. O'Brien has also said that what prompted GSOC to do the security sweep and enlist the British security experts...

Global Intelligence Forum (18 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just stating that for the record, given the earlier unjustified comment. What is the reason senior figures both in the Garda and from the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Defence are attending this conference with former directors of the CIA, former directors of military intelligence in the United States army and former senior figures from the FBI? Bizarrely, the...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that took place. There is widespread belief that there was British state collusion in that. However, the question they ask, as we approach the 50th anniversary is, will the State release the Garda files relating to this matter? I refer to the investigative files on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings which 29 Ministers for Justice have refused to release to the families.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... They want the Refugee Appeals Tribunal to be subject to requests under FOI so that they could get information. They have also proposed areas such as Refugee Applications Commissioner, the Garda National Immigration Bureau, the naturalisation and immigration-----

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...appear it is being used more to gather information on organisations and groups with which the State has a problem. When this extends to anti-war activists it begins to be of serious concern. The Garda recently raided the home of the PRO of the Galway Alliance against War. His house was raided at 8 a.m. with his wife and daughters in bed. Vile language was used against members of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...definitive evidence", but what that hid was that there were substantial concerns on the part of the Ombudsman that they were under surveillance and that surveillance may have been conducted by the Garda. That prompted it to undertake an investigation and to bring in experts and when they came they found more threats, further adding to possible concerns that it was under surveillance....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform considering the panel of barristers review of a number of cases where individuals are demanding proper public inquiries into very serious allegations of Garda malpractice. In particular, has the committee considered, or will it consider, the ongoing call of Cynthia Owen for a full public inquiry into her case, which I have raised a number of times?...

Topical Issue Debate: Corporation Tax Regime (20 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue for debate. I also appreciate that the Minister has come into the Chamber to participate. Between the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and the Garda whistleblowers, this week may well go down in history as one in which attempts to cover up scandals were exposed. I certainly believe that what has been going on...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...But the questions I want to ask are about what this State owes to the families and the victims. How could it be – the State surely has some information about this – that the investigations here were closed down after ten weeks? Why are the Garda files missing? These have never been seen and are generally believed to have been destroyed. Why was the forensic evidence of...