Results 81-100 of 198 for garda speaker:Bríd Smith

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...it. The movement outside of this House for full reproductive rights is very important. I will move on to some of the detail of the Bill. As has been mentioned, the lack of a clear system for gardaí to record warnings issued to people who move from protest to protest to avoid arrest is really not good enough. We need to find a system, perhaps a new system outside of PULSE,...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...a measure that would put a stop to this. Last Saturday, I stood on the Ballyfermot Road to prevent a woman and her two children being illegally evicted. Last night, 30 homeless children were left in Garda stations and parks. What sort of society are we living in? The focus of the Government and media is on the beauty contest between two failed Ministers, one of whom failed us on health...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...again but where are the actual systemic measures that the Government needs to address as a matter of urgency? The Minister might think they are here in this Bill but we utterly disagree. I think An Garda Síochána probably disagrees as well. I listened to an interview with Drew Harris on the "News at One". Paul Reynolds of RTÉ did his best to extract from him how he feels...

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

Bríd Smith: ...by jury, which is one of the greatest rights won by democracies. It replaces normal rules on evidence and the right to remain silent. It allows for citizens to be jailed for years on the word of a senior Garda, based on no other evidence than his or her opinion. It bequeaths a frightening arbitrary power to the forces of the State that are, in reality, unaccountable and unelected. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...to make them change their mind and have an abortion. Has Ms McDermott never dealt with a parent who would make a complaint to the Irish Medical Organisation, the management of the hospital or the Garda about this sort of harassment? If she has not does she think that encouraging these people to complain, so that this type of treatment is dealt with, would be a good role for her charity?...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...of those human rights two days ago. I got a phone call from a woman who headed up a Ballyfermot helping the homeless group. She asked me whether I could do anything as she was outside Tallaght Garda station where a grandmother, parents and four children were locked up because they sat in in South Dublin County Council offices in Tallaght. They had nowhere to go. They were made homeless...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Resumed) (5 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...the Minister of State could email me the beginning of his reply. I am particularly interested in the list of those who are informed of these decisions, which seems to consist of everybody from An Garda Síochána to the lighthouse keepers. Is there any chance he could inform the Deputies and Senators who sit on this committee and try to grapple with the challenge of climate...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: ..., no matter where they are in the country, have no independent body to which they can go to make complaints. It is a bit like somebody who feels they have suffered a grave injustice going to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and having gardaí investigate gardaí. Local authorities do not investigate their own complaints properly. Oliver Bond House,...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...has been caught out in such a disgraceful manner over a very serious claim that at the heart of the State there is something extremely rotten that is punishing Sergeant McCabe, and possibly many other gardaí, with smears about being involved in the sexual abuse of children. There is probably a pattern with regard to that, and we need to get to the heart of it. However, as well as...

Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: .... He does not talk about himself but Deputy Gino Kenny was complaint No. 1 to GSOC when it opened. I queued with him outside the building on Abbey Street. His complaint was about the behaviour of gardaí in Bellanaboy when four of them picked him up and threw him over Bellanaboy bridge down a 30 ft drop. It was captured by an RTÉ cameraman. We gave GSOC the DVD. We still...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...at him and said, "Tell your auntie she has blood on her hands and that we are going to get her." I am dealing with that in my own way, through the facilities we were given here to make contact with the Garda. The people who want to tell women they do not have the right to choose and who want to stand outside clinics, hospitals and doctors' surgeries that deliver the service are not the...

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...that is wholesale in the places where we live. We should not penalise people who use them. We should look to absorb it into the culture. We are talking about how we change the culture of the Garda following last week's report. We should also look at how we change the culture in our communities to make it better, healthier and more inclusive of everybody.

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...not give them the testing and tracing that they need. This heavy-handed approach, combined with the failure to heed the science has only served to increase anxiety and hesitancy. The powers given to the Garda in this legislation are also disproportionately applied and worrying. In May, we got figures for fines for fixed-payment notices issued by the Garda. At that time, of the 6,066...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...the greatest housing crisis in the history of this nation. To listen to some people here, one would think that incentivising landlords was the issue and not the possibility of children turning up at Garda stations with no homes to go to and no roofs over their heads. We are asking only one thing tonight. It is not how many more schemes we should try to develop to lure landlords,...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...some nasty people who wield a lot of power to intimidate not just these children and their families but the entire community. Dr. Connolly also discussed in his report the under-reporting to the Garda from within these communities. He interviewed people and much of the reason for that under-reporting is down to a disbelief that anything will change or happen. I honestly believe that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...by the Ministers. Their great concern for equality of opportunity for the people of rural areas is quite astounding when the Government has just closed down many rural post offices. How many Garda stations were closed during the years of austerity and not reopened? How many villages and towns throughout rural areas have been disconnected from bus services? When this was happening, it...

Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...done. It needs to be done. We must face up to what is deeply inherent in the State by way of a legislative process that encompasses all the arms of the State, including medicine, the courts, the Garda, local authorities and so on. There is a deeply embedded bias against Travellers and it is in the Department of Education as well. That early intent of the Irish Free State to remove...

Proposal for a Directive on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: Motion (21 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...of the nine counties that has no refuge. According to Councillor Wallace's figures, in the first nine months of 2021 it was revealed that 500 incidents of domestic violence were reported to the Garda in Carlow and Kilkenny. While there is a refuge in Kilkenny, it is totally inadequate as we can see from those figures. That can be repeated throughout the country. Based on the 2015...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...Tús initiative in November 2016 and was interviewed for a Tús placement in January 2017 and placed on a panel. Mr. X was interviewed again on 30 January 2017 for a placement with a host company and Garda vetting was submitted on 2 February 2017. Mr. X was selected for JobPath on 9 January 2017, which was prior to the Tús placement being offered. JobPath would take the...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...-torn and famine-stricken areas. This does not match up to any commitment we give to asylum seekers coming into the country. There is a slight increase in the immigration budget but that may be just to help the Irish immigration service, run by An Garda Síochána, to process people faster. Does it really deal with delivering a budget that will help us look after the needs of...