Results 101-120 of 261 for garda speaker:Colm Burke

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Colm Burke: ...all of the staff in the Department of Justice and the Prison Service for their work over the past two years, in particular. It has been a very difficult time for everyone, given the role of the Garda, the Prison Service and the Department. I thank them for all the work that was done over that difficult period. On the issue of capital projects, Ms McPhillips referred to the roll-out of...

Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2013)

Colm Burke: ...with the issue of producing evidence to prove someone is over 18 but would it be an easier way of dealing with the issue if smoking in cars carrying any passengers was banned completely? From a Garda implementation point of view, that may be an easier way of doing it. I put that forward as an idea to consider from the point of view of enforcement. What Senator Crown has brought forward...

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2016)

Colm Burke: ...of State for introducing the legislation and hope it will be passed. I also hope the regulations required on foot of the Bill will be introduced as expeditiously as possible in order that the Garda has powers to deal with people who are pushing drugs on innocent people.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...are discharged from prison so they have the necessary support? I go back to a project I was involved with in Cork for a number of years. Where young people got into minor difficulties with the Garda, gardaí referred them to a training centre at a very early stage, and we would then help to give them a skill so they could go on and get a job. Have we done enough in that whole area...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Coroners Service (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Burke: ...were discovered in County Galway and who has not been identified, in which the evidence suggests that the person was not even from Ireland. I am concerned that there is no central place where the Garda authorities and the coroners can go after bodies are discovered to cross-check information about people who have been reported missing. I am raising this issue in that context. I am...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Colm Burke: ...with the Blackpool Glen Farranree Community Youth Training Centre where we had full funding. We had more than 50 young people who had dropped out of school, many of whom were referred to us by the Garda Síochána. When a research project was carried out on those children five years after they left the centre, 70% of them were in full-time employment. The Cork Life Centre has...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Colm Burke: ...in projects where because the OPW was in charge, I had to deal with five different State agencies. When there is that complication, the period it takes to complete a project increases. Macroom Garda station is a typical example. Macroom is not in my area but I know that the project has lasted for quite a long period. It seems to me that every one of these projects goes on ad...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Missing Persons (24 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. My understanding is that the Coroners Society of Ireland, the Office of the State Pathologist, the Dublin District Coroner, the missing persons bureau of An Garda Síochána and Forensic Science Ireland support the proposal I am making. I presented it to the Department and the Minister of the day five years ago, but it is only in the past three weeks that we...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Coroners Service (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Burke: ...washed up in County Louth was that of the person who had been reported missing ten years earlier. The family of that person lived with uncertainty for ten years. A central database would help the Garda, the coroners and all the people involved. I ask the Department to give serious consideration to this proposal.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (15 May 2024)

Colm Burke: ...a number of years. The Government is fully committed to assisting the families and finding the truth of what happened. For example, when a legal issue arose that would have prevented the provision of Garda material to Operation Denton, the Minister for Justice took extraordinary steps to put in place a bespoke mechanism to allow relevant information from An Garda Síochána be...

Seanad: National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (27 Nov 2012)

Colm Burke: ...nine or ten year old child who had an intellectual disability to four organisations: the bus company, the people who had subcontracted to the bus company, the school the child attended and the Garda, but no action was taken for ten days. That person contacted a public representative, who subsequently contacted me. It was only when we threatened to arrange for the child to be transferred...

Seanad: Whistleblower Legislation: Motion (29 Jun 2011)

Colm Burke: ...going on in relation to the child. Over the previous ten to 12 days the parents had gone to four different groups of people highlighting the problem and their concerns. They had approached the Garda, the school, the bus owner and the health service, but none of them would act. When they came to me, I made a call to the health service and the Garda. I even threatened that I would...

Seanad: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (9 May 2017)

Colm Burke: ...of State and the Bill. As other colleagues said, it is very technical. I hope it will streamline the system in dealing with a lot of issues which end up in the courts and consume a huge amount of Garda time that could be avoided. I welcome the third payment option, whereby if a person does not pay the fine when a summons is issued, he or she can do so without having to go to court,...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Colm Burke: ...taken so long for this issue to be dealt with within Tusla and why something of this nature has been left to fester. That is exactly what has happened. It has been left to fester within both the Garda and Tusla. The sooner the public tribunal is set up and the issues are fully aired, the better. If information comes through that people were involved deliberately in trying to muddy a...

Seanad: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Second Stage (26 Feb 2014)

Colm Burke: ...in employment or in receipt of an occupational pension. In dealing with the area, it is important to consider the cost to the State. As pointed out by Senator O'Donovan, arresting someone takes up Garda time. Transport to prison and the prison process must be gone through and the person must be discharged to return home. There is a great cost to the taxpayer and reducing the cost is...

Seanad: Reporting of Lobbying in Criminal Legal Cases Bill 2011: Second Stage (21 Sep 2011)

Colm Burke: ..., however, I cannot agree with the proposal for a number of reasons. One reason is that section 6 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1974 clearly makes it illegal to make representations to the Garda Síochána and the Director of Public Prosecutions. The Bill before us does not take cognisance of that, although section 6 of the 1974 Act makes it unlawful to do so. There is no reference...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Colm Burke: ...was that a fine of €4,000 was imposed on my client and the immediate response was to appeal the matter to the Circuit Court, which would have taken up even more of the time of the court and the gardaí involved. A community service order might have been a far more appropriate procedure in that case. Something to which I referred last night was the need to steer people away from getting...

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Jun 2016)

Colm Burke: ...does and this Bill also does that. The Minister is setting out clear guidelines in respect of the management of the drugs sold illegally and making sure the necessary powers are in place for the Garda and other authorities to deal with them. This demonstrates how the drugs culture changes by the day. A number of months ago, a 16 year old in transition year was in my office in Dublin and...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)

Colm Burke: ...conviction rate is higher than 68%. This raises very serious questions about how summonses are prosecuted, including whether there is a defect in the manner in which they are presented by the Garda, whether there is a defect in how they are being dealt with by the courts or whether we have an extremely efficient and hardworking legal profession in some parts of the country and not in...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Colm Burke: I fully agree with Senator Leyden's remarks. The allegation of corruption within the Garda is outrageous, unfounded and should be withdrawn. This morning, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children signed off on the report in respect of the hearings on the proposed new legislation dealing with the X and the A, B and C v. Ireland cases. It just goes to show how work can be done....