Results 101-105 of 105 for garda speaker:Bríd Smith

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...;2 billion will be transferred from the Central Fund to the infrastructure, climate and nature fund. This is a significant amount of money, which is equivalent to the total annual expenditure on An Garda Síochána. The Bill indicates that from 2025, no more than 25% of the total fund can be transferred to the Exchequer in an instance of deterioration in the economic or fiscal...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: .... In this country, many sex workers have complained openly, and it has been reported in the media over recent years, that they can be persecuted, harassed and often put into troubled areas by the gardaí who are pursuing them. There is no attempt to separate the dangers of sex work from the reasons people are engaged in it. They can be driven into it or they could choose this work...

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...centres were to be opened in the past few months. Across rural Ireland, in particular, resources have been depleted, particularly for medical care services, schools, bus services, post offices and the Garda. People living in rural Ireland feel abandoned. Direct provision centres, crucially, are being opened without on-site medical services being available. The Minister asked for ideas...

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...audited. There is a different set of rules for those who act as bailiffs, even for the security companies which went in during the wee hours of the morning and broke through the picket lines with the help of extraordinary protection from gardaí. They went in and they pulled women and some men out of those picket lines at a number of stores, and they did that on the basis of the...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...-increasing cost of bin charges. To be honest, CCTV is all over my estate, for example, but nobody looks at it because staffing levels in the local authority have been cut back. The staffing levels in the Garda station are otherwise affected. Nobody watches the CCTV coverage. I do not know about rural Clare or east Galway, but that is certainly the case in big cities such as Dublin and...