Results 101-120 of 717 for garda speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Child Care Services Provision (9 May 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Tetra Ireland Limited was granted a licence in 2008 for the installation of telecommunications equipment on the mast at the former Garda Station in Finglas. The licence facilitated the roll-out of Digital Radio for An Garda Síochána and other Emergency Services. The licence agreement requires 12 months notice by the Commissioners of Public Works to Tetra Ireland Limited to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: On Wednesday, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris gave a stark warning about the rise of far-right extremism, which he categorised as a threat. He called it "a growing concern right across law enforcement and intelligence agencies across Europe" and stated that the Garda was concerned about right-wing social media activity, planned arson attacks targeting direct provision centres and the...

Written Answers — Public Sector Staff: Public Sector Staff (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: ...the independent centralised provider of recruitment, assessment and selection services for the Civil Service. It also provides these services to local authorities, the Health Service Executive, An Garda Síochána and other public bodies, where required. Having completed a selection process, the PAS assigns or recommends individuals for appointment by the relevant authority e.g....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: .... It really is a transforming moment for which we have waited a long time. There is one net issue, however. The report stated that the right mix of skills can be achieved by giving the Garda Commissioner the freedom to design his own team. It cannot be right for whoever is at the apex of the Garda Síochána to design and select the management team of An Garda...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Garda Commissioner was represented at the O'Higgins commission by lawyers from the Chief State Solicitor's office and the Office of the Attorney General. The Tánaiste and the Taoiseach are both on record as stating that the Department was only aware of the legal strategy deployed against Maurice McCabe after the fact. Can the Tánaiste clarify whether there was a management...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed). (28 Jun 2006)

Brendan Howlin: ...in this process. If the Minister says licence holders should only have a month to apply so that applications will be proximate to the expiry date, it should also be the case that the Garda has a month to make a decision on those applications. Whatever may be the general case in practice, the law provides that gardaí have three months to make a decision but certificate holders have only...

Garda Operations. (22 Feb 2007)

Brendan Howlin: I am happy to acknowledge I said that because it is the truth. I am asking the Minister to substantiate whether the Garda objected to bail and to indicate whether we need to change the law or the practices of the Garda. We have a duty to ensure that people who face serious charges and are recognised members of ruthless drugs gangs do not walk the streets. This is not a matter of idle...

Road Safety: Motion. (8 Nov 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Some 33 additional personnel have been allocated to the Garda traffic corps in 2005, giving a total current strength of 565. I can break the figures down by county. There is one additional garda for Clare, one inspector for Cork city, one garda for Limerick, one for Roscommon and so on. That is the reality. Let me deal with penalty points, which some people have described as a sham. They...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (10 Oct 2012)

Brendan Howlin: ...leased. The contraction in numbers employed in the public service generally has resulted in reduced accommodation requirements over the past number of years. This factor, along with the policy of the Garda authorities to close selected Garda Stations throughout the country, has resulted in a significant increase in the number of vacant buildings in the portfolio. Currently, there are...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...would be very welcome. In the course of the forthcoming talks, the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, will head the trade union side. I welcome the fact the Garda and the Defence Forces associations have also been invited to attend. Today I focus on the broader issue of trade union recognition for both of these groups. The Taoiseach previously...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (14 Feb 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...in the House, was probably the spate of gangland killings that blighted and gave a negative view of this remarkable area, given the day that is in it and in the teeth of the controversy about An Garda Síochána, it is an appropriate moment to say that the Garda has done terrific work on this issue. This is coming directly from the community. We should say it on the day that...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (5 Dec 2006)

Brendan Howlin: ...the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in respect of the death of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly in February 2002, any serving or retired members of the Garda have been interviewed by the team reinvestigating the death; if so, if disciplinary action has been taken or is planned; if the Commissioner has established the way the contents of an...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (29 Apr 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ..., driving licence or an employer identity card are to satisfy the photo id requirement; has her attention been drawn to the fact that Irish citizens do not have national identity cards and that An Garda Síochána do not issue identity cards as a matter of routine; if she has made a new arrangement with An Garda Síochána to issue ID cards for social welfare recipients; and if she will...

Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)

Brendan Howlin: ...May 1999 to today, more than six years of deep distress and unimaginable anguish for many individual citizens let down by the State have elapsed. More than that, their own State and its agent, the Garda Síochána grossly abused them. The scale of the abuse of power outlined in the two Morris reports to date beggars belief. That it could have continued over such a period and involved so...

Garda Operations. (22 Feb 2007)

Brendan Howlin: ...cases he was referring to in regard to statements he made in which he referred to 24 associates of a deceased criminal having been arrested, of whom 23 were granted bail despite objections by the Garda; if he will confirm that the Garda objected to bail in all cases; if not, the number of cases in which it objected to bail; the offences with which people were charged in each case; the...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...this in this Bill? This Bill is supposedly confined to licensed premises. The notion of having a catch-all "or otherwise" added to it because some other regulation might be brought in such that a garda can enter under a warrant to give a direction when there by the by is not the way that normal legislation is constructed. It is not normal to put in a catch-all so that if a garda sees...

Written Answers — Bail Laws: Bail Laws (31 Jan 2007)

Brendan Howlin: ...and Law Reform if, in regard to statements he made in which he referred to 24 associates of a deceased criminal having been arrested and 23 of them being granted bail despite objections from the Gardaí, he will list the cases he was referring to; if he will confirm that the Gardaí objected to bail in all cases; if not, the number of cases in which they objected to bail; the offences...

Garda Investigations. (4 Apr 2007)

Brendan Howlin: ... his views on the decision of the Supreme Court to increase to €4.7 million compensation paid to a person (details supplied) arising from what the court described as the outrageous conduct by gardaí to the person; if the Garda will issue a formal apology to the person; his further views on the observation by the court that no explanation had been provided as to the way a person in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (17 May 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...rather than investigate the merit or demerit of any allegation of wrongdoing. Is the Tánaiste satisfied that the cultural change we talked about in the enactment of that legislation has taken place in An Garda Síochána, specifically in regard to the treatment of the whistleblower, Garda Maurice McCabe?

Seanad: Protected Disclosures Bill 2014: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...definitions and I have sought, with the help of the Parliamentary Counsel, to produce clearer and more user-friendly definitions. The purpose of amendment No. 2 is to ensure that members of An Garda Síochána, including members of the Garda Reserve, and civil servants who do not work under formal contracts of employment will have access to the full range of protections available...