Results 81-100 of 127 for garda speaker:Lynn Ruane

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...matters. We are separating those things in relation to when we decide who investigates what. So, when it comes to an issue of a more disciplinary nature, it would not make sense for An Garda Síochána to investigate itself. What is actually meant by "performance"? Are we just talking about performance in the sense of people's personal performance in their job, not in how they...

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...Once again, powers of data retention are exceptional powers which stand down people’s data privacy rights. I am concerned by the perceived weakness of some of the provisions in respect of user data. It seems that Garda and Revenue officers currently have the scope to use these powers whenever they see fit in respect of user data. Notwithstanding the previous clarification of user...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...and not only a conversation about how we can find ways to prosecute people who end up in that position. I have fears about the relationship that currently exists especially between young men and gardaí in areas that are extremely disadvantaged. We have a history in Ireland where gardaí have withheld methadone from people who are on heroin so that they could extract information...

Seanad: Review of Allegations of Sexual Abuse at St. John Ambulance: Motion (17 Nov 2022)

Lynn Ruane: ...report. We need that independent report to be matched with a needs analysis of what type of needs are there for people who have had to endure this, especially when we know that the State and the Garda have let them down, because they had been made aware of this. This is not something that has been uncovered that everyone is surprised by, because people did go to the Garda and to Tusla....

Seanad: An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála eile ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Mar 2020)

Lynn Ruane: ...We must be mindful that even though recruitment drives can happen everywhere else, they cannot happen within the prison system unless we bring back retired officers. The only other option is the Garda or the Army whose members I am sure would possibly be dispersed elsewhere. The goal is that if we are picking people up that we already have a warrant or we are detaining them for some...

Seanad: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Dec 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...though the points are similar, how we address them might be a little different. If we consider something to be spent here, it should be removed completely from every system that exists here. The Garda vetting bureau or the central authority should not be able to see it or be able to relay to another country that it exists. We are into a conversation on whether something is spent at all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...that makes this Bill do what is set out in its provisions? How will the Bill be reflected in our structures? Do the witnesses think there is a need to set up specialist hate crime units within An Garda Síochána? What type of training will be needed? Do we need performance indicators at that level of reporting? What about the handling of discriminatory incidents and the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...yet to ratify. Even after the litany of revelations of institutional and historical abuse in Ireland, our inspection regime is seriously flawed. There is no inspection body for those detained in Garda stations following arrest. The inspectorate of prisons has published only one prison inspection report since 2014. There is no oversight body for direct provision centres or nursing...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ..., and the secretariat as to why they did not – my feeling is they may feel there are some legal issues with decriminalisation because outside of their remit is the problem for stop-and-search powers of An Garda Síochána. An Garda Síochána believes that decriminalisation means its ability to stop and search will be removed. Why would you want to stop and search...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Feb 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...and say he or she would stay engaged because that person was like him or her. I then thought about the value people with convictions would bring to such places as the Probation Service, An Garda Síochána and the Department of Justice and Equality. Imagine having that expertise in the room, a person who has lived such a life and what he or she could bring to the table. As...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Youth Work: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

Lynn Ruane: We just need to communicate that more across different sectors. Drug possession is in the same category as murder, rape and sexual assault so when it comes back on the Garda vetting, sometimes people just look at the category it is captured in. Having been in possession of €20 worth of cannabis in the 1990s could all of a sudden prohibit someone from a job later in life because it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2020: Discussion (18 May 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...than ending up in a space where we say that everybody must have proficiency in Irish? We see from other sectors where we are fighting to have diversity, such as the teaching profession and the Garda, that even in order to be able to study in the area, having a proficiency in Irish could reduce diversity before anyone even has the opportunity to apply to the Bar, for example. Sometimes...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Lynn Ruane: ...the coalface and on the front line, whereas the statutory bodies bring a different layer of expertise into those spaces. The local authority is hugely important when it comes to safety, as is An Garda Síochána, but the people involved are all a particular type of representative. The task forces also include community representatives. I cannot imagine a scenario where the whole...

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...to take on a language or they may miss out on certain subjects as their choices are narrowed down by the time they reach second year or third year. With regard to creating diversity in certain sectors, to be a garda or a teacher, one needs particular things at leaving certificate level which, as it stands, are sometimes just not provided for. I was a lecturer in Maynooth University a...

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2020)

Lynn Ruane: ...but I have never met him. I have had to avoid taking leaflets from people on the streets because, since I do not even know what he looks like, I think he will jump out an hand me something. The Garda has tried to get me an image of him. He has been very threatening. How does one make the distinction the Senator mentioned when something is lawful but also abusive? That is another...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Lynn Ruane: ...m. when her life was at threat. Even waiting for the next day or for a judge to decide whether there should be an extra sitting is not good enough or strong enough. This amendment provides that a garda of appropriate rank may authorise the calling of an on-call judge. It is about that communication and not having to wait to make that application or for a court proceeding. Emergencies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Spent Convictions: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...I am so interested in the matter is, as I have written publicly, I was a young offender and it is only because of societal interventions that I am where I am. It is because people ignored the Garda vetting process to give me employment at a young age in the area of addiction. At home I have a shoebox full of letters from young men, from the age of 12 years when they were in the Oberstown...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)

Lynn Ruane: Last week I raised the issue of the discriminatory introduction of Garda vetting of access students at Dublin Institute of Technology, DIT. I would like to put on the record that since last week it has reversed that decision and realised that it was a negative move. I would like to congratulate it for reversing that so quickly. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Education and...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...the Minister will not accept the amendment now, will she try to reframe the issue in the long run? It is not about just taking someone fresh from prison who says they want to be on the board of An Garda Síochána. How people are selected and appointed, the interview process and whatever else goes along with that, would have to make sense and be in line with the legislation . It...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2017)

Lynn Ruane: ...problem of trafficking for sexual exploitation? Why was there no focus on implementing the existing law more effectively? The next point I wish to make concerns sex workers and their distrust of the Garda. Many come from countries where the police are quite abusive. According to a report that came out last week, the Ombudsman is looking into 70 accounts of sexual assault by gardaí...