Results 81-100 of 115 for garda speaker:Cathal Crowe

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

Cathal Crowe: ...much going down the avenue of discretion. In the context of a situation where a person is pulled over on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, the witnesses started to elaborate on how gardaí have discretion. To build on a point from earlier, it is essential for the force that there be a full definition of what this involves and how it works in a practical sense. I would...

Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions needs to be looked at. It was flagged in late March as being a reason many court cases are not progressing sufficiently. I have friends in An Garda Síochána, as I am sure most Members here do. They find it extremely frustrating that they invest a huge amount of time investigating a crime, capturing the culprit and bringing...

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

Cathal Crowe: ...on dual-carriageways where vans and jeeps close off the road and all the public traffic is held up behind them while this wild-west-style race to an endless finish line takes place. Where does An Garda Síochána stand in the context of this type of scenario? We hear very little about it clamping down on this activity. In some parts of the country, it is a Sunday morning thing....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cybersecurity and Hybrid Threats Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ..., which was just in a primary school classroom. If you go half a kilometre down the road to your local HSE public health centre, you will find another data set. There is another in the local Garda station. There is a data set in each community service. People talk about hubs and spokes but the Government has tentacles of public service in each and every community in the country. Some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: This was all made clear during the Covid pandemic, when it was explicitly stated that there was continued cover and that was very clear but it is less clear now for motorists and for An Garda Síochána in respect of enforcement. Does MIBI have a view on L-plate drivers? It is a similar and related question. In some parts of the country, including west Clare in my constituency,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: ...? Has this increased or decreased? Is it elaborate? Are there ways of detecting it? What sanctions are there? Is the individual pulled, there and then, from the airport and sent home or to a Garda station?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...dates back to 2007. The award was approved by the Government and subsequently sanctioned by the Department of Finance, but it was withheld from this group when all others in local government, An Garda Síochána and across the board received this pay grade. How can the witnesses stand over this injustice when the very same report specifically said that neither the pay of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...being put out there as someone who is just unwilling to work or being awkward, tricky or lazy. These are words that have been used to me. To use an example from a totally different realm, in An Garda Síochána if people are injured at work, the organisation finds a role for them. They are brought back to work as quickly as they are able, but they may not be back on the front...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...nurses are delighted they have upped sticks and moved out of the hospital. I think it is the opposite. When I was a teacher, our principal was based in the school, not down the road. In a local Garda station the sergeant and inspector are based on campus. I find it incredible that this move has happened, given that it is the most pressurised hospital in our system and persistently...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...been the speed limit signs. They have been around since the foundation of the State. There was a time local authority members could go into a meeting and by resolution, and with engineering and Garda agreement, instate a new speed limit. That is now tied into five-year cycles. It is not good enough and it does not have the flexibility for situations that happen each year. Those...

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

Cathal Crowe: ...a workers' point of view, would the union welcome a discreet text system that would go straight to carriage A so the agent knows? The train is stopping someplace every 20 minutes, so surely the Garda could be at the next station to get the troublemaker off the train.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...the way to local authorities. The days of the Ford Fiesta or Renault Clio reversing into a space and a family of five getting out of it are, unfortunately, gone. Because of stipulations from the Garda and road traffic policy regarding seats for children in the rear of cars, many families now have people carriers. Disabled members of our population have blue badges and designated spaces....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...of those receiving methadone treatment had been receiving that treatment across a ten-year period. Merchant's Quay Ireland does fantastic work and I do not want to take from that but there is a need for a Garda presence. There has to be the hard law presence outside the building and the soft, caring presence inside. It bothers me that the people going through that door for treatment,...

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

Cathal Crowe: ...They are doing drug runs. They are drug mules. The wearing of a balaclava is very intentional because the wearer cannot be identified but not wearing a helmet is even more intentional because An Garda Síochána has given direction to all units in the country not to pursue youngsters without helmets riding scramblers. What this means is that these guys are riding down canal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Rising Veterinary Costs on Dog Ownership and Surrenders and Abandoned Dogs: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...are on the loose, local authorities and the Departments spend a few days trying to figure out if they are on public or private land, whether we can go in and, if we can, who should go in. The Garda receives calls at the same time. There seems to be a breakdown for a few days as we try to identify the responsible body. There are different sections and legislation. There should be a...

Defamation Act 2009 Review: Statements (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...people or constituencies. If individuals want to be blunt, they may by all means be so, but there is a reasonable threshold. Sometimes that threshold is exceeded. When that happens, it is over to An Garda Síochána. Some people, like Satirical Soldier, might live in a pseudo-world in which they sit behind a computer, snack away on junk food and type hate messages and whatever...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Roll-out: Discussion (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: ...through fields with cattle and rushes. It is fabulous but it bypasses homes that desperately need it. In many cases, NBI is encountering cables that have been laid by airports, schools and Garda stations but which it cannot tap into. Perhaps the witnesses could cover some of those topics.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...to about 2 km away. They are no longer based in the hospital. Before I was a Deputy, I was a teacher. I have never heard of a school principal based outside a school. I have never heard of a Garda inspector or sergeant based a 1 km away from their station. It is unbelievable for a hospital system, in particular, UHL and its surrounding hospitals, that have been at crisis point so many...

Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: ...have undertaken certain exposé stories on some of these private security firms and the backgrounds of some of these individuals. There needs to be a lot of time devoted to ensuring they are fully Garda-vetted and that appropriate and upstanding people are taking on these roles. We do not want thugs or gurriers donning uniforms and masks and arriving at someone's door. This is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...in the hospital environment when it is based in an office block located 1.5 km from the hospital? I was a schoolteacher before I became a Deputy and my principal had an office down the corridor. In Garda stations, the superintendent has an office down the corridor. There is no way a management team can manage and oversee an acute hospital environment when based a distance away in an...