Results 101-116 of 116 for garda speaker:Gerry Horkan

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jun 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...south Dublin. He was also fatally injured. Other Senators have spoken about crime generally and gangland crime. In the past two years, there has been an increase of 66% in seizures of knives by gardaí. We certainly need to know what they Garda will do in terms of prevention.There is no real scrutiny of the level of criminal activity that involves knives. It is imperative the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...get my head around that. I know it might not be physically possible to do it, but I do not know how anyone ever thought it was okay to have a sign up saying that. I just wonder how much engagement the RSA has with the Garda and the local authorities. I am the former chair of a transportation and strategic policy committee in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. I know about engagement with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...it is about speed, intoxication, young male drivers, night-times, weekends and mobile phone use. It surprised me when we had the RSA in with us - not the last time but the time before - or maybe it was An Garda Síochána, that there are still a very significant number of people in fatalities who are not wearing seatbelts. That really surprises me. We need to communicate the...

Seanad: Gambling Legislation: Motion (27 Feb 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...regulation is not left lagging behind by rigid fixed rules. The Bill also aims to curb money laundering and criminality that may use the gambling sector with robust checks and powers with respect to the Garda and international bodies. Ireland has the third highest per capitarate of gambling losses in the world. We lose approximately €470 per adult on different forms of gambling...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (16 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...and child pornography. The Bill will also amend the Defence Act 1954 to ensure persons subject to military law who commit specified sexual offences in this jurisdiction will be dealt with by An Garda Síochána and the civilian courts rather than through a military process. Finally, the Bill provides that character evidence introduced at a sentencing hearing for a person...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...urine tests and blood tests is relatively low in light of the size of our population and the number of vehicles on the road. That said, the positivity rate is quite high. This is probably because gardaí are only testing the people they are suspicious of in the first place. Do we need more of a Garda presence? The Chairman generally takes the train. In the context of speed...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Jun 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...oversight, for the Bill to clarify that serving Department of Defence civil servants are ineligible for membership. I could make other points, especially on making the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces an Accounting Officer, much in the way that the Garda Commissioner is the Accounting Officer for An Garda Síochána, but I am approaching the end of my time. On pre-legislative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (13 Jun 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...to jail and end up with a sanction but people who make a false insurance claim, by and large, end up with no sanction if they get caught. They can come back next week to try again. We are bringing in the Garda Commissioner, which is helpful, as well as insurance company representatives. It is morally and socially unacceptable to make exaggerated claims and stage accidents. There is a...

Seanad: Civil Liability (Capping of General Damages Bill) 2019: Second Stage (28 Mar 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...claiming for money to which one is not entitled. Saying that one's claim is far in excess of what it should be is fraud in my book and I think it is fraud by any definition of fraud. We need a Garda unit to investigate such cases. We need prosecutions. If one gets caught trying to rob a bank, hopefully one will be convicted and will get some kind of sentence. If one is proven to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (29 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: ...in the middle of the summer. Subsequently €3 million was allocated for the Carysfort and Maretimo stream scheme. In 2011, on the night of the presidential debate, a poor unfortunate garda died in the river. Dundrum Town Centre, the single biggest ratepayer in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area, was flooded, while there was no Luas service for two days owing to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State (7 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: ...off at the Red Cow, and if the car gets from A to B too fast, a penalty is imposed for breaking the law. I went pretty much all over the country during the Seanad campaign and I did not see many Garda vehicles. We know the number of gardaí in the traffic corps is down. People are taking chances and ultimately we end up with claims and injuries because of people not behaving as...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Young Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Discussion (30 Sep 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...who are not registered to vote. How do you engage? It is a challenge. The witnesses are here and engaged but in the South of Ireland we have recently seen young people who should not be driving at all ramming Garda cars and not participating or getting involved with organisations like those here today. How do you get those people engaged? How do you get people who are very comfortable...

Seanad: An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála eile ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (20 Mar 2020)

Gerry Horkan: ...of the struggles and hardships through which people are being put. This legislation is important and Fianna Fáil is supporting it. We must all work together in solidarity. Where people are not behaving correctly, we need the Garda public order unit, or whoever it needs to be, to intervene if there are large gatherings of people, house parties and social gatherings that completely...

Seanad: Public Authorities and Utility Undertakings (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2019: Second Stage (3 Apr 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...by that main contractor. I know some of these people, and they are very good business people who were very good at the work they did. These people thought they were doing work for the State, whether for the Garda or the courts system, but they were caught out because the main contractor and subcontractor fell out, leaving the subcontractor in a very difficult position. The main...

Seanad: Transport and Tourism: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...points. The Minister referred to road safety. What he is doing in this field is commendable but, and this is as much a matter for the Minister for Justice and Equality as it is for him, enforcement and the Garda traffic corps are noticeably absent on the roads. That is the only way of putting it. Not enough people are worried about being caught. People are taking chances. The...

Seanad: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...of claims made against them before a settlement has been reached has stalled and it looks like the Government is rolling over on this point also. A mechanism to set up the anti-fraud unit within An Garda Síochána was to be approved by the third quarter of 2017. This has yet to be achieved. I acknowledge the Minister of State's comment at the end of his contribution, which is...