Results 81-100 of 120 for garda speaker:Patrick Costello

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: ..., will be an issue throughout the justice system. Prisoners find themselves in this position struggling against issues of translation, but their experience of the justice system began in the Garda station and moved through the courts. What was their experience through that? We have had sessions here with people talking about the difficulty of translation in the courts. It is a much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Patrick Costello: ...? What can we do to improve that? Policing is one part of the solution, but it is also one part of the problem, particularly as regards kids on the street who have entrenched views of the Garda that are not very positive and entrenched views within the Garda of the same kids that are also not very positive. Both groups will happily call each other "scumbags". Essentially, there is an...

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

Patrick Costello: ...dealing, there are many cameras on a bus. The drivers witness the dealing and it is recorded. Perhaps this is more of a question for Dublin Bus, but is there a procedure for reporting that to the Garda? It is a crime and there is evidence of the crime. Is it being reported and followed up, is it being reported and nothing happens, or is there a breakdown in communication? Streamlining...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (20 Sep 2022)

Patrick Costello: ...funding is constantly on a knife edge. We need to be looking at how we can work with the community, which wants to see an end to this kind of behaviour. As my colleague has said, we need to see more gardaí on the beat and to see a higher level of community policing. Based on replies to parliamentary questions, only approximately 6% of the local Garda station's complement is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Minorities Engaging with the Justice System: Discussion (24 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...We may have covered some of these but it is good to ask them anyway. One question is for the Irish Traveller Movement and for AkiDwA. What is the implication of the low level of trust between the Garda and minority communities on their engagement with the criminal justice system and how can we rebuild that trust?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (23 Apr 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...arrangements do not have plans in place for when a child goes missing from their accommodation; if his Department will investigate if safeguarding procedures outlined in the Joint Protocol between An Garda Síochána and Tusla and the Children’s First Act 2015 are being adhered to by private providers of special emergency arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Patrick Costello: I welcome the Minister. She mentioned earlier the graduated response the Garda uses. The Commissioner used that term as well, but surely the beginning of any graduated response should be prevention. Particularly when dealing with groups that are deliberately organising, the prevention should be looking at and dealing with them. The Minister says that there have been 800 protests this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (4 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...support victims need. I will be honest. There have been some improvements. We saw liaison management teams put in place in many areas inside Tusla. The divisional protective service units in An Garda Síochána constitute an excellent innovation that provides an excellent service and should be continued and supported. They are really improving how the State responds to these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...Farrell. I have tabled many parliamentary questions about blue light training for drivers and it is just not happening. One of the issues in my head is that there are many parallels with the Garda representative associations and the Defence Forces, which also do not have a right to strike. In the past the Defence Forces have asked for an independent pay review body. There is some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...in his submission. Paragraph 12 references that several cases have emerged where the data controller deleted or destroyed information after the complaint was filed. I am conscious that An Garda Síochána have a duty to seek out and preserve all evidence bearing on the guilt or innocence of an accused. Does this not apply to the commission or to other judicial bodies here and is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Irish Prison Service Bill and of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Bill: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...of conduct or a code of ethics, prisoners will be living under the regime that this creates. In the same way I have always argued that there should be public consultation in regard to, for example, Garda regulations or Garda codes, I fully believe we should find a way – it should not be that hard - of conducting some sort of consultation with prisoners, and that needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Minorities Engaging with the Justice System: Discussion (24 Nov 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...needs to be postponed and a new date will be confirmed. The joint committee will meet again on Wednesday, 8 December at 5.30 p.m. to discuss pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the Garda Síochána (powers) Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Digital Recording) Bill 2021: Discussion (21 Sep 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...be used for head 9. It is not just the issue of the time with regard to head 15. It is the urgency test. The Criminal Justice (Search Warrants) Act 2012 sets up three criteria: a member of An Garda Síochána must not be below the rank of superintendent; he or she must be independent of the investigation; and there is an urgency or an expediency, meaning that it would be...

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

Patrick Costello: ...safety of drivers and the general public. I want to explore a couple of things. I apologise for being late, but Ms Armstrong was mentioning something as I was coming in. She talked about the garda getting on, flashing their ID and the benefit of having that uniformed officer. That speaks to the need for the transport police she was talking about. How does that work? Is that ad hoc,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...area. My experience previously as a social worker was that some of the best social workers I knew were trained as these joint specialist interviewers to do an interview in co-operation with the Garda at the standard that could be submitted into evidence. Those skills were then never used and those people left Tusla. I know there are people who are training now, but based on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick Costello: ..., so we will start there. The online portal in many ways dovetails with stuff those from Dublin Bus have talked about, such as automatic number plate recognition, ANPR, and some of the stuff the Garda representatives mentioned in their submission about section 81 of the Road Traffic Act. We have lots of cameras. We have 14 cameras on Dublin Bus. I will admit, given my constant talking...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...them in this House and by their names getting out on social media, they become targets for organised networks that are operating. I repeat that I fundamentally disagree with the position of the Garda Commissioner who said there is no shadowy hand and there are no organised networks here. There are organised networks and if we are not on top of them, it is because of the way they are...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...but the applicants are not customers. They are applicants and service users. The International Protection Office is not a business. It is a Government Department. We see this language. An Garda Síochána talks about its customers. Customers implies that people engaging with the service have a level of choice. I am not sure any of the people who find themselves on the...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Patrick Costello: .... Creative solutions were suggested earlier today by other Deputies. We need to embrace those. I also want to look at the issue of antisocial and criminal behaviour. I appreciate that the Garda now has new responsibilities in enforcing the Covid-19 legislation but as the Minister has said, ordinary policing work goes on. A balance must be struck. I am particularly thinking of places...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Traffic Legislation (23 Sep 2020)

Patrick Costello: ...between 2014 and 2018, three of whom were under 18. We have gone back and forth on this. A few years back, there was an inter-agency, interdepartmental working group on the matter but the Garda still struggles with enforcement. It says that it needs more powers to be able to enforce effectively the regulations on quads and scramblers which, as we are seeing, are dangerous pieces of...