Results 101-120 of 264 for garda speaker:Timmy Dooley

Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (5 Feb 2003)

Timmy Dooley: ...to overtake other vehicles. Senator Ryan says he has been doing a lot of driving recently. Therefore, he may not have been paying attention to his mail. I understand there are quite a few hidden Garda vehicles in operation and the first one may learn of having committed a speeding offence is when one opens the post to discover a fine notice. Senator Ryan should check the brown envelopes...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ...debate in this House on the abuse of the planning process and I want the Government to bring forward a plan fairly quickly to address these legacy issues. I suggest that a special unit be established within An Garda Síochána to look into what will, undoubtedly, be numerous bits of information coming forward. It should not be for us to investigate. That is the principal job of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jan 2004)

Timmy Dooley: ...woman quite late in the evening. It is of particular concern that the alleged perpetrators of this crime were as young as 14 years of age. We must move away from the blame game in terms of the Garda and civil society and look to the parenting of these young people because the State assists parents in the parenting of their children. It makes social welfare payments, including child benefit...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2013)

Timmy Dooley: ...the industry and that this has not been taken into account. We need a stronger requirement that the NTA, over a period of time, ensure anybody involved in the business be subject to some level of Garda checks. It is not beyond the capacity of the Minister of State, the Department and the rest of us to come up with a workable solution which would not burden the vetting unit or make this a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Safety (26 Jun 2014)

Timmy Dooley: In the Minister's response to my colleague, Deputy McConalogue, he talked about the strength of the Garda force and that it may be stronger than it might be if we had been in government. Notwithstanding his views in that regard, it is a fact that the level of enforcement of the law as it relates to road safety has been compromised in recent years. He spoke of the trends emerging this year...

Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (1 Oct 2013)

Timmy Dooley: ...forward amendments to strengthen road traffic legislation even further. Our amendments would crack down on hit and run drivers by introducing tougher penalties and extending the powers of arrest of gardaí. I will outline these provisions on Committee Stage. They will be in line with a Bill that I published previously and which the Minister mentioned in his opening remarks. I will...

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2006: Second Stage. (8 Jun 2006)

Timmy Dooley: ...matter, the actual number of road deaths has decreased. In the past year, there has been a blip in the pattern, which some have suggested was due to a lack of conviction or work on the part of the Garda in terms of finding law-breakers. We should examine the matter in respect of the number of vehicles on the road. In 2001, there were 411 road deaths and a registered number of 1.6 million...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...facts are very different. We saw how the recent storm was utilised by the strategic communications unit. One wonders why the Taoiseach needed to be flanked by an Army officer on one side and a garda on the other at press conferences?

Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (27 Apr 2005)

Timmy Dooley: ...and must be addressed. Penalty points have worked, by and large. There is the question of enforcement, and it is important that it be taken into account. Even if one doubled the size of the Garda, it would not be able to position gardaí on every crossroads or stretch where accidents take place. There is a real need for co-operation between the Department of Transport and the Department of...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (15 Nov 2016)

Timmy Dooley: ...will be available from the 2017 cohort, I would appreciate if she could provide me with that number. If it is not available to her, perhaps she might at least recognise the need to deploy additional gardaí in Clare. The figures the Tánaiste provided show a significant drop of 39 in the number of gardaí serving in Clare between 2010 and 2016. While I accept that the crime...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ...dissipates, it is our responsibility as politicians to look back analytically to establish the facts as to how control was lost last Thursday evening and why that control was lost. I speak to gardaí all the time in my role as a public representative and I spoke to gardaí at the weekend. Quite frankly, many gardaí are afraid to use their judgment call on the use of force....

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2003: Second and Subsequent Stages. (27 Nov 2003)

Timmy Dooley: ...is dealing with it in this way. The Bill, which as Senator Browne said is fairly straightforward, will allow for the implementation of elements of the Road Traffic Act 2002. It will extend to the gardaí power to test people suspected of drink driving. I compliment the Minister on the speed with which he addressed this difficulty, despite the fact that Opposition members are critical of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Timmy Dooley: ...the pre-publication stage rather than through amendments later. One of the most significant issues that has bedevilled drink-driving laws for many years is challenges in the courts as to how a garda formed the opinion that someone had consumed alcohol. People were able to successfully challenge this for decades. The difficulty I have with the impairment notion is that it is...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements. (29 Apr 2004)

Timmy Dooley: ...work well into the future. Concerns have been raised in recent weeks about enforcement, which needs to be considered. The Road Traffic Bill will address this issue, particularly the freeing up of Garda time in respect of the outsourcing of the collection of fines and other elements in the legislation such as the capacity to monitor speed. There has been some criticism of the gardaí in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Penalty Points System: Discussion (19 Sep 2012)

Timmy Dooley: ...Many fixed penalty notices are issued when speeding is detected by vans positioned on the side of the road. Some of the offences in question are relatively minor by comparison with those detected by a garda on patrol. There is work to be done in that respect. Mr. Faughnan and Mr. Brett spoke about speed limits that are poorly set. Are they suggesting that local authorities should...

Topical Issue Debate: Cabotage Regulations (18 Dec 2013)

Timmy Dooley: ...hauliers resulting in the displacement of the work in the trade. I ask the Minister to utilise his position at Cabinet level to urge the Minister for Justice and Equality to make clear to the Garda Commissioner that while there are cabotage laws in place, they should be enforced to the full extent. The Minister is correct that domestic hauliers who travel to the United Kingdom are put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Traffic Offences: An Garda Síochána (16 Apr 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...to the meeting from the point of view of the committee is based on comments made by a judge at Kilrush District Court and the concerns he raised. I refer to his comments addressed to the local Garda superintendent who prosecutes those cases: You have been put in an unenviable position of trying to prosecute cases where matters have been so badly and so appallingly put together by [a named...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Post Office Network (25 Apr 2018)

Timmy Dooley: ...to viability. The Minister spoke of viability in his response, but what about the viability of the communities that will be left without perhaps the only service they have had for some time? Garda stations have closed and small schools have closed. I refer to the only facility with the harp over the door and that gives some inclination that the Government still cares about those...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...for his actions concerning that Deputy. In fact, if there is a resigning matter in all of this, it is the fact that the Minister used privileged information that was provided to him by the Garda Commissioner in a private briefing session to seek to gain some level of political advantage. To me, that is where the absolute wrong was committed by the Minister. In his failure to recognise...

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (6 Jul 2006)

Timmy Dooley: ...dealing with statistics. I welcome this legislation. I hope it will receive the co-operation of the Departments of Education and Science and Justice, Equality and Law Reform, which is needed if the Garda Síochána is to be involved to the extent that is necessary to ensure that everyone adheres to the various provisions of this Bill to the best of their ability.