Results 81-100 of 110 for garda speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Juvenile Crime: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...serious crimes involving robbing or beating up elderly people. There is a case here of one rape; that is not to be tolerated. We cannot accept those kinds of things. People may criticise the Garda for not prosecuting these crimes, but gardaí are doing their level best. We must go forward; we cannot keep going backwards all the time. Social farming is a great initiative is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...; the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan; or the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross? People are being checked in going to and coming from mass. I am not blaming An Garda Síochána or individual superintendents because it is occurring across divisions and county boundaries. Does the Minister, Deputy Ross, now also want to close churches, as...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...members of the council have tabled numerous other motions on this issue. Recently, a lovely, beautiful young girl was tragically killed crossing the N22 at Glenflesk. Fr. George Hayes, the Garda, local people and people from neighbouring parishes are asking that the speed limit be reduced from 100 km/h to 60 km/h at Glenflesk. I do not have anything against people in Lissarda or...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to be remedied or sorted out. To go back only a few years, we saw how willing was the State to get involved in County Kerry with the Kerry babies case. We know what wrongs happened there, yet the Garda was used to the maximum there. The murder squad and the highest people in that force were down there at that time. It amazes me that this saga continued until 1998. I did not know...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ..., I have a concern with it as well in that he says it would be up to the publican to demand a court hearing. Why is the venom all being directed to the publican? For all other citizens, the Garda issues a summons and prosecutes. That is the form the law takes with every other offence. I do not see why it should be up to the publican to go to the expense of calling or demanding a court...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...in the last few days. Emigration is still happening and rural Ireland is badly affected by it. Let us just take a place like the parish of Lauragh, where the two shops, the post office and the Garda station have all closed. There is nothing there now to identify it as a parish in its own right, barring one pub down in Kilmackillogue. Everything is closing. This is what is happening in...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...is gone, and they cannot have a couple of drinks and drive home because of our stringent laws. I asked for a two-tier system where those in rural areas would be allowed get a permit through the Garda to drive on certain roads after having two or, maybe, two and a half pints. That was not entertained by the previous Government and I do not think this Government is interested in it either....

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to give it to them. That is what the banks have been doing and there is no accountability. I am asking the Ministers to do something. They should get the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Garda Commissioner to round these people up and bring them to account because they know who they are.

Civil Defence Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...roles they can play. When somebody has a cardiac arrest, they are probably the nearest at times to help when help is needed. Civil Defence plays a vital role with the diminishing presence of An Garda Síochána or when its members are away on different operations. They provide as good a service as those who are paid to provide them and they must be recognised and properly...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I thank the many gardaí, male and female, throughout this country who uphold law and order and carry out their duties, largely unarmed, in dangerous situations where they come across villains, thugs, drug lords and others involved in serious crime. I thank them for all that they do locally to help the elderly and people living...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... On our licence it states we are licensed to sell beer and tobacco to be consumed on the premises. Nothing could be clearer than that. Members of the Government were not aware of that until the Garda in Galway woke them up and they decided to do this. Now we are voting to appoint judges as well. Why could there not be a separate Bill for that? I welcome what many pubs have done....

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...do at that stage. The law provides for a situation where a health care professional, a doctor or someone else finds out about something like this, and he or she is bound by the law to notify An Garda Síochána that such a thing has happened. The matter is dealt with professionally and legally after that, and there are rules and regulations that protect the vulnerable or abused...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...issue. We have a scenario these days whereby the Minister for Justice is proposing to put in some clause where she can send asylum seekers or whatever back to the UK. What facilities does the Garda National Immigration Bureau have? It is responsible for deportations, border control and investigations relating to illegal immigration. The GNIB is very thin on the ground. The...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and even from parts of south Kerry where the pubs will not be able to open. They are all going to arrive into Killarney. For those who do not, shebeens will open up and, as I said earlier, the Garda will have to have very good jeeps and other vehicles to find them. It was easier to monitor and work with the regulated pubs. The Government is making a massive mistake in not allowing all...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank my local authority, Kerry County Council, its management and workers for the great work they have been doing continually during this virus. I thank Radio Kerry, the Garda and all the voluntary workers around the county who have done tremendous work for people cocooning and those who are very isolated. It is only now that we realise the value of businesses and employers. I have...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of people who pass away. People like to go to funerals but they will miss these too, and there is no going to the creamery now and there are no local shops. Most of the post offices are closed as well as the Garda stations, and there is no interaction in rural Ireland any more. Radio Kerry has a great current affairs programme from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. five days per week, with Treasa...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...told that any relief that was to be had from having a hybrid SUV will be removed. That is wrong. Consider a family with three children. To comply with safety regulations and to be able to face the gardaí on the road when being checked, one must have special seats for the three children, which will not fit into a normal saloon car. Families may need seven-seater cars in order that...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...an office one day per week to sign on for the past seven or eight weeks. He is being treated the same way as a person who stabbed someone, is on remand, has been granted bail and has to visit a Garda station two or three times a week to sign on or be seen. The person to whom I referred has been told he will have to appear in the office for 52 weeks.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Canney, I am grateful to him for what he has tried to do for the county. One authority must deal with flooding problems. Inland Fisheries Ireland has a say in this matter, which means people are threatened with the Garda, jail or the loss of farm payments if they go near a river. Our rivers are clogged up and blocked for this reason. When...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to Emma and many other women like her. If somebody's life was neglected or lost like this in any other system, somebody would be brought to account. It is time to call in the special branches of the Garda to see what happened and get a fair assessment. We must bring somebody to account for what happened in these sad cases. It is sad to think other women are out there with a death...