Results 81-100 of 242 for garda speaker:Gerry Horkan

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Apr 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...Dublin Airport on Monday to understand the challenges it is going through. It has approximately 600 security staff and needs to increase that to approximately 900. The biggest problem it is having is Garda vetting and what is called enhanced background checks, which involves referring back to another jurisdiction if people have lived out of the State for more than six months. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...kind of ignore it. There seems to be quite a large volume of vehicles in the NCT database that have never been tested or have been tested a very long time ago. Maybe somebody, whether it is An Garda Síochána, the RSA or the National Car Testing Service, should focus in on these long-term persistent offenders because as we said, if people are going to drive without insurance,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...book of quantum is just the historical, statistical analysis of what has happened? If so, I do not know how it can be redrafted. Can he tease out his point on that? He made a point about the Garda insurance fraud unit, saying the Minister tells us there is not enough support in the House for this. Did he give any evidence for this, or any suggestion as to why? I commend all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...cannot exceed the time too much, so I want to conclude. I hope there will be time for the second round. I mentioned the three main asks of SIPTU. One is a dedicated national transport-related Garda service and another is the establishment of a transport advisory council. I was around long enough as a councillor to remember the body that preceded the National Transport Authority,...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Gerry Horkan: -----but the Minister seems to be spending far more time on judicial appointments and other matters, including Garda stations, than he is on his own brief of transport. Cycling is a positive activity for all of us. I want to acknowledge the death at the weekend of Shane Duggan, a 16 year old from Straffan. We must make our cycling infrastructure safer and spend more money on it. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...discuss what the companies might do about the 19 cases or whatever number it was in the past six months. I would like the process to be much more systematic in that any claim the insurance companies reject is sent to the Garda. I would like the witnesses to tell me why they do not do that because it is clear they do not. I know it is difficult to prove, but they should allow the Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...why he is seeking a waiver. We are here to tease out what is in the legislation in order that we are in a position to grant the waiver. I whish him and his team in the Department, the RSA and the Garda the very best with all their endeavours. The message can go out from this room that people who are travelling at the weekend, whether they are pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists,...

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...and involving young people. We need to keep reinforcing that point. I thank the Minister of State and everyone in the Road Safety Authority, in the Department and in wider civic society and the Garda, who are contributing in any way they can to reducing road deaths and, indeed, injuries because life-changing injuries happen as well in road accidents and can be incredibly traumatic for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...analysis which could take until Christmas. If anything, Deputy Michael McGrath's amendment about independent analysis speeds up the process rather than us kicking it to touch, bringing in the Garda deputy commissioner now, and not doing anything until September at the earliest. That would mean we would not even be considering this going to Committee Stage until Christmas.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2016)

Gerry Horkan: ...function was held. Representatives of the al-Maktoum family, which funded the centre originally, visited from the United Arab Emirates. Archbishop Martin was present, as were an Assistant Garda Commissioner and other significant dignitaries. It was a wonderful celebration of 20 years of that institution in Irish public life. It has made a great contribution to Irish life and the House...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Small and Medium Businesses: Discussion (4 Apr 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Ms Murray and Mr. Boland for their contributions and I thank their association for all it is doing. The three big asks I am taking from the discussion is to get the Garda fraud unit set up as quickly as possible. Where are they with the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, or the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy? Are they playing pass the parcel with each other? Is one saying it is not a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...Civil Service. I had two parents and two grandparents who worked in the public service. One grandparent worked there until she got married and had to give up work. I had a grandfather who was a garda, a grandmother who was a teacher and two parents who worked in UCD. This is not coming from an anti-public service stance at all. The witnesses mentioned the ability to reward people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: On behalf of the committee, I am pleased to welcome from An Garda Síochána Commissioner Drew Harris and Assistant Commissioner Paula Hilman. I will read a note on privilege. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...yellow boxes, maybe they will get a few penalty points and will watch their penalty points a bit more. I just do not see enough of that happening. There are endless demands on the time of An Garda Síochána but driver behaviour seems to be slacking off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...State's remit but ultimately, the fewer severe crashes there are the fewer payouts there will be. There will always be accidents but we hope that there will be fewer and fewer. The numbers in the Garda traffic corps have not been increased or been maintained in the way they had been previously. One can drive at the speed limit on any motorway in the country and other cars will still be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...contractor fails. It is not right that the system allows Carillion and other main contractors to obtain money from the State and then let down the subcontractors who are doing work on schools, Garda stations, courts and universities, from which all of us will benefit. I know of examples of subcontractors being let down to a greater or lesser extent because extras were added on or...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...more widely and fairly shared, but we must ensure there is enough cybersecurity. I have spoken on this previously on behalf of my colleague, Senator Clifford-Lee, in terms of cybersecurity in the Garda Síochána. We must ensure there are no issues with cybersecurity. That security must be ramped up to ensure the citizens' data are intact in the various Departments and are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. Walsh think it is a power the RSA would maybe like to have? If somebody breaks a red light or is speeding, the RSA can do nothing about it. The authority can ask An Garda Síochána to do something about it and can ask the local authorities to install red light cameras but it cannot install them. That is where I see the disconnect in that we want the RSA to make roads...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I want to express my sympathies to the poor cyclist who was injured last night in a hit-and-run incident. That was the second hit-and-run in that particular area. I call on the Garda Commissioner to pursue what is happening in that area and to investigate it. Cars are being abandoned after accidents. That somebody was hit is bad enough. To do a hit and run and leave a person by the side...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...coarsening. We need to calm down our debates and the level of vitriol against politicians generally. Senator Ahearn is our Acting Leader today and I congratulate him on that. Yesterday, the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Drew Harris, appeared before the Oireachtas transport committee, of which I am Vice Chair. I am not taking away anything from what Senator Sherlock said about water...