Results 101-120 of 488 for garda speaker:Alan Kelly

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...say the following at the end of this session but I will mention it now because the Deputy raised the matter. I represent Templemore. I know that the people of Templemore are of huge value to the Garda College and vice versa. Simply put, the facilities exist. The facilities are not being used by the Garda for obvious purposes. The community, which has worked with and facilitated the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...the committee with the information we sought. He was speaking ad libitumwhen he indicated there would be no problem providing the information. As acting Commissioner, he is now the most senior garda in the country. As we all know, criteria must be applied in making such decisions. The letter or piece of paper containing two paragraphs that we received is utterly disingenuous. It is a...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (26 May 2011)

Alan Kelly: An Garda Síochána is responsible for the vetting of Small Public Service Vehicle driver licence applicants and the issue of such licences. It has also a key role in taxi regulation enforcement, which it carries out in cooperation with the National Transport Authority under the Taxi Regulation Act 2003. Members of An Garda Síochána are authorised persons for the purpose of Section 49 of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: The position with regard to some of the new Garda divisional headquarters and areas is mental. I do not say that lightly. It is crazy. The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI, has brought to my attention issues with new divisions in Cork, Monaghan, Louth, Meath, Westmeath, Laois, Offaly and Kildare. The one relating to my county is insane. The headquarters are in Ennis in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Legislation (8 Jul 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...Act 1992 provides, in Part II of the Second Schedule, that an application for entry on the supplement to the register of electors shall be signed by the applicant in the presence of a member of the Garda Síochána from the applicant’s local Garda station, who, on being satisfied of the applicant’s identity, including if necessary, by the production of photographic...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...with regard to the appropriation side of things. There seems to have been a serious spike in overtime in 2017 by comparison with 2014. Obviously, that was the year there was a pay deal for An Garda Síochána. It was understandable. However, the 2014 figure increased by three times in three years. I understand 100% the position on the fixed costs of the Garda in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Alan Kelly: I will have to rejoin the committee. I will be back again in the new year to do something totally different. I offer my best wishes to the garda who was injured in doing his duty. It shows the dangerous work many gardaí do. I had no intention of going near the issue of the reopening of Stepaside Garda station, but my knowledge - I am the only member of the Committee of Public...

Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Regulations (20 Dec 2012)

Alan Kelly: ...flout the rules. The system of regulation needed to become much more robust and it will. Between the taxi review report, the new Taxi Regulation Bill and an increased effort from both the Garda and the National Transport Authority, NTA, I am confident a stop can be put to many issues that taxi drivers frequently raise. More than 13,000 vehicles have been checked this year by both the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...x20ac;44.2 million. There was a great deal going on at that time and serious issues had arisen. There is not one member of this committee who does not have friends or know people who are members of An Garda Síochána. In the main, they are great, hardworking people and there were serious concerns around pay and conditions at that time. Those issues were dealt with and that is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...and what we are hearing today is that no expenses were ever paid from that revenue, which, to me, is incredible. I direct the following question to the same four people. Are they aware if any garda ever gained personally from funds through the Garda College, EU or CPOL accounts? I presume the answer they will all give is "No". Is it?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jul 2020)

Alan Kelly: Yesterday, I raised the insistence by the Minister, Deputy Coveney, on having a Garda car and drivers. The Taoiseach answered that there had been no Government decision taken on the issue. As such, the 2011 Government decision still stands. Now we have a Minister travelling around in a Garda car at a cost of €200,000 per year without permission because there has been no Government...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors (14 Jul 2015)

Alan Kelly: An application for inclusion in the supplement to the register of electors must be signed by the applicant in the presence of a member of An Garda Síochána from the applicant’s local Garda station who must first be satisfied as to the person’s identity before signing, dating and stamping the form. The Garda may request photographic or other identification. Where the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Collection (24 Sep 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...motor tax, insurance and roadworthiness obligations and the instruments used to facilitate enforcement measures including the application of number plate recognition technology are a matter for An Garda Siochána. Any changes to the requirement for display of the discs referred to on vehicle windscreens would need to be considered in the context of the application of number plate...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: We might get into the detail of that later. I want now to ask Mr. Barrett a few questions. The Garda Commissioner previously stated at this committee that once these issues were brought to her attention on 27 July she did everything in her power to address them. She established a group. There was also the meeting which Mr. Barrett said lasted for over two hours but the Garda Commissioner...

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Alan Kelly: .... I apologise to all the witnesses for cutting in but, as they will have seen, the Chairman is being very diligent today. We know the second interim report recommended the reopening of Stepaside Garda station. Given Assistant Commissioner Leahy's role and his previous role and in light of the information he has provided to the committee, does he agree that Stepaside Garda station was...

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: No. That is going to be interesting. Why do we not follow it up? On the Garda side of things, I might be able to help Mr. O'Brien. Deputy Josepha Madigan went through the chronology of letters to and from legal people, etc. Mr. O'Brien is saying that on 24 February there was a process whereby the HSE wrote to the solicitors to ask about engaging in publishing the report. Was there...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...in what Assistant Commissioner Ó Cualáin said to Mr. Howard. Did he express a view that this was incredible stuff, it had been going for years, he was very concerned about it and believed An Garda Síochána had real issues here and that it would come out? He was an assistant commissioner of An Garda Síochána and is sitting on the external audit committee,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...it again. I would like to ask a double-barrelled, quick-fire question to all the witnesses. We can start at the front. It requires a "Yes" or "No" answer. Did the witnesses in their work for An Garda Síochána ever send or receive any official Garda documentation to or from a Gmail or private email account? Did the witnesses ever send any official documentation to any...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Alan Kelly: There is a response on the opening of Garda stations. It is a "Whatever you say, say nothing" type of response. We were around the houses on this issue with the Department of Justice and Equality. When its representatives were answering questions, they referred to the fact that the OPW would have a huge role to play. In advance of representatives of the OPW coming here, can we ask for all...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...across the force. On a number of occasions, I have asked individual witnesses the same question, which was whether they had ever received private emails on business-related matters relating to An Garda Síochána or whether they ever sent anything for use in private email relating to Garda business. I received an answer last night from Mr. Nugent. I apologise for reading it off...