Results 81-100 of 144 for garda speaker:Gerard Craughwell

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Dec 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...this country, the people Senators Wilson, Cummins and various others have spoken about who are working hard to make their communities better places. That is despicable. I have also written to the Garda Commissioner and asked her to carry out what I would regard as a proper investigation without any form of inducement or what some call entrapment. If people are guilty of some form of...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: Limerick is a city today in which we do not have huge crime. It is a pleasurable city to visit. It was done by co-operation across the board between communities, gardaí, and elected representatives in Limerick who had a direct line into the Garda station. Where there was a problem, it was possible to fix it. The Minister must fix the terms and conditions of employment for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...want to work in the public service. The single pension Act is detrimental to them. However, that is for another day. I know the Minister of State and know he does not want former members of the Garda standing out in a dole queue in Dún Laoghaire, lying that they are available for work when they are not. We should kick in the supplementary element straightaway. If somebody says...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Insurance Schemes: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the witnesses. I have been thinking about average Joe Garda married to, or in some sort of relationship with, average Jo nurse who buy a house. At the mid-point on the scale their maximum borrowing capacity is €300,000, working on the basis of a 20% deposit requirement, which I support. It is a way of cooling the market. I am running a survey around the country of all...

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (26 Jan 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...cattle. We cannot cull humans so surely to God we should control the Border. The problem with controlling the Border is that countless Governments have disinvested in the Defence Forces and in the Garda presence on the Border, with the result that we would have great difficulty in doing it, but we should do it in co-operation with the PSNI in Northern Ireland, where people crossing from...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Apr 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...not, the email will be delivered. That is the truth of it. The excuse of systems being hacked has been used in many different instances in this House in relation to failures. I am writing to the Garda Commissioner today, and I ask the Deputy Leader to do likewise, to ask that the National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, immediately investigate the claim made by Mr. Watt. If his system was...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: .... He reported that and he is now being subjected the most horrendous bullying. They are telling him to go home sick and not to come back. I want an investigation into this. I am contacting the Garda today on the drugs issue. I will write to the Health and Safety Authority and the governor of Mountjoy Prison and ask that if anything happens to this man, somebody will be held...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...seeks to use, once again, coercive powers in this legislation for another three years to extend the additional working hours for teachers, lecturers in institutes of technologies and members of An Garda Síochána beyond the period set out in the Haddington Road agreement. Have the Minister and the Government considered the damage that is being to the education system and policing...

Seanad: An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19) 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Mar 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...who is not making mortgage payments for three months and who must pay those payments at the end of the crisis should not have them added on to the end of the mortgage instead. I congratulate the Garda Commissioner for the speed at which he acted to get members of the Garda out of Templemore and onto the streets. When we see what has gone on with people spitting in the faces of elderly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...for the implementation of the recommendations of the commission while, at the same time, numbers are falling rapidly. By the way, this is not just in the Defence Forces but is now also in the Garda, where it is not the issue of bullying and harassment but where other pension issues and so on are involved. A number of tasks are ongoing at the same time. The implementation body is looking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I join with what Senator Buttimer has said. I have met gardaí in all sorts of circumstances, for many a long year. The most recent time I met a garda was at 2 a.m., close to Lamb Doyles pub, when I was driving home. For the first time in 49 years, I was breathalysed. I am happy to say I passed, but it was a strange experience. I compliment the gardaí who are out on the beat and...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (27 Jan 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: I thank the Minister for being in the House. The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has expressed some concern about the move or the direction in which we are moving. We are clearly going to move inspectors from their supervisory role into a management role as we move into this. That is not their function. We need supervision on the ground using both our sergeants and...

Seanad: Broadcasting (Restriction of Salaries) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...examination of every single employment contract in RTÉ to see who was brought in under bogus self-employment. It is certainly not good enough. The other day the Taoiseach made the point that maybe the Garda should be involved in this investigation. It cannot be right to take €75,000 from a company, pass it on to a contractor and then give the company €75,000 worth of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (10 Sep 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...we are tucking things into emergency legislation that should never have been introduced under the cover of Covid-19. I listened to Antoinette Cunningham, the general secretary of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI, and her concerns about the way in which legislation is being drafted. Could the Minister reassure me that in drafting this legislation she sat down with...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Gerard Craughwell: ...socialists taking people onto the streets and talking about the poverty in which they live, when they know sweet damn all about that poverty. I ask that not only do we condemn it but that the Garda Síochána should investigate what happened at the weekend to see if a crime was committed. I wish to address Senator Zappone's issue with the Central Bank. I, too, have concerns about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (20 Feb 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...1998 to 1999, in particular to bring back customs people who worked the Border at that time and understand it in terms of training some of those 400 people who are coming forward? We have closed Garda stations over the years and there is no Defence Forces location anywhere between Donegal and Dundalk. In terms of Cavan and Monaghan, are we carrying out reconnaissance to find locations...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Nov 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ...at the table and were not even aware of the fact that pay talks had started. Indeed, I understand that departmental officials were not aware that pay talks had started. The same applies to the Garda Síochána. This places general secretaries of the representative bodies in a most difficult situation with their members. I ask the Leader to advise the House tomorrow, if...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: .... She has been told - by the HSE I believe but I may be wrong and I do not want to say necessarily that it was the HSE - that tonight, in order to receive accommodation, she must report to a Garda station by 8 p.m. so they can call a social worker and for her and the child to be taken into care. This is urgent, so I ask the Leader to look into this straight away and see that this person...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...courts system. There are penalties that can be awarded by the military. There is an appeals mechanism. There is no place for somebody coming in from the outside. Should it be an issue for the Garda to be involved in, it falls to the Chief of Staff to decide that, not a Minister. We need to have a discussion on that at some stage in the near future.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...Boyhan's amendment. The Minister of State and I both remember the bad times in Limerick. It is now one of the best cities in the country. A huge amount of work was carried out jointly by the Garda, local and national politicians and the education and training board, formerly the vocational education committee. It is now a model city in so many ways. I love the place and I love to...