Results 101-120 of 320 for garda speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 295. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí serving in each Garda Síochána station and each Garda Síochána district in each of the years 2007 to 2015. [2226/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 961. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagements he or any Ministers of State in his Department have had with the Garda Commissioner in relation to delivering a new Garda station for Carndonagh, County Donegal. [16799/23]

Appointment of Chairperson of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (16 Jul 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will be aware that the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality was tasked with examining the Garda Síochána Act 2005 and considering ways of strengthening GSOC, having a policing authority, ensuring the accountability of the Garda and setting up new structures. One of our recommendations was to replace the current three-person commission with one ombudsman, as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Commissioner will be aware there is considerable concern about the station closures and the resources available to the Garda Síochána, most notably from the Garda Representative Association which represents the overwhelming majority of gardaí on the ground. We all know and respect gardaí in our community. We have conversations with them and they are concerned about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Garda Commissioner (11 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly commissioner carried out an extensive examination of cross-Border crime over the course of a year. The commissioner met senior police officers in An Garda Síochána and the PSNI, the various local authorities and a range of agencies across the Border. It was an excellent report. One of its 16 key recommendations was the establishment of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his initial response to the recently published report of its Public Interest Investigation from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission that outlined serious concerns regarding the ongoing procedures with An Garda Síochána and the poor level of cooperation with their investigation. [28435/13]

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Europol Bill 2012: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 11: In page 6, before section 7, to insert the following new section:“7.--(1) The Garda Commissioner shall ensure external human rights auditing of all liaison officers training materials. (2) The Garda Commissioner shall ensure all liaison officers appointed will undergo human rights training before taking up positions.”.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (11 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 424. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has established with the Garda Commissioner the veracity of the allegations that 40 Traveller families were entered on the Garda PULSE system, including a baby of 16 days old; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11997/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (11 Dec 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...committee. Petition No.48/12 from Mr. Patrick Martin, claiming that his father was murdered in disputed circumstances in 1979. Additionally, the petitioner alleges corruption on the part of the Garda Síochána in reporting the death of his father, together with collusion between the Garda, the attending doctor, the Coroner and the County Registrar. The petition is deemed to be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Promotions (9 Dec 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 260. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views there has been serious disquiet and concern regarding the appointment of personnel to Garda promotion boards in recent years and that cronyism is rife in the Garda promotion process; and the steps she is taking to allay that concern. [46848/14]

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... Nobody denies that the Minister is hard working or that much of the legislation he has introduced is admirable and needed to happen. That is not the point. The second issue relates to An Garda Síochána, which has more than 13,000 members. Deputy Charles Flanagan is right in pointing out that we have a police service and I am glad he made the distinction from a police...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (2 Oct 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for a Garda station (details supplied) in County Limerick; if this Garda station will remain open for the next five years; if he will confirm that its resources will not be reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41427/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Promotions (9 Dec 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 254. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views that the practice whereby the Garda Commissioner forwards the names of the ministerial appointees in contravention of the regulations nullifies and negates the whole purpose of the 2006 promotion regulations to have an independent open and transparent promotion process in An Garda Síochána. [46842/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Inspectorate Reports (15 Jan 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 33. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the criminal justice service group recommended by the Garda Inspectorate in its report on crime investigation from October 2014 has now been established; the progress of its work in implementing the Garda Inspectorate's recommendation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1326/15]

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As I acknowledged earlier, there are errors in the drafting of this amendment. Of course, the Garda Inspectorate is not relevant to this debate. I will not be pressing the amendments because they are not worded properly. However, the objective of the amendments is to ensure that the issues Deputy Wallace and Deputy Daly have outlined do not continue. People are having to wait crazy...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...are much clearer on that point. The Minister will recall the events organised by the Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Law Society. Conor Brady was one of the speakers, a former Garda Commissioner - sorry, Garda Ombudsman Commissioner. He made the point that, where ever-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Garda Commissioner (11 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome the Commissioner. Her opening presentation was very reassuring, particularly the new TRUST approach. My first question is on the closure of Garda stations. The Garda Representative Association continually asserts that this has impacted negatively on the ability of front-line gardaí to deal with criminality. What is the Commissioner's response to its assertion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...gangs. In parts of Dublin and Limerick whole communities have been terrorised by a handful of individuals. What are the Commissioner's views on the joined-up multi-agency approach? When the Garda is successful in convicting some of these individuals they go to prison, where they can often be as great a threat as they were on the outside because their networks and systems of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...and the comments at the conference of the GRA, which has not made a submission but hopefully will at some stage, I heard about a charter of fairness in terms of the rights of members of the Garda Síochána. The other issues raised were that these investigations can be expensive and the money is taken from the Garda budget rather than the GSOC budget. These are reasonable points....

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I hear the point the Minister is making about PULSE and that the system may change. However, when Bob Olson and his colleagues from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, as part of their substantial report on the crime investigation carried out over three years, they spoke about the inadequacies of...