Results 121-140 of 501 for garda speaker:Alan Kelly

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulation Review Report Implementation (11 Jun 2013)

Alan Kelly: ...Transport Regulation Act, 2009. The NTA is also the lead agency with responsibility for implemetation of the recommendations of the Taxi Regulation Review Report 2011, including, in cooperation with An Garda Siochana, the implementation of the enforcement measures that are proposed in the Review Report. Many of the key recommendations of the Taxi Regulation Review Report...

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: ...Constitution, legislate and, as part of the Committee of Public Accounts, to investigate these matters. I represent Templemore. I am very proud of Templemore. It is a fantastic town, to which the Garda College is central. I want to see the college grow and investment is necessary to provide specialist training to Garda and a whole range of other things. While there is huge public...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Divisional Headquarters (5 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: I believe in modernisation of An Garda Síochána. I also believe that we need to see considerable change. I am not one of those who come to the Chamber to practise NIMBYism, as my track record will show. I do not believe in political policing. I believe in transparency in decision-making. Where a decision such as this is made and it is not transparent across the criteria, it has...

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

Alan Kelly: ..., there is an obvious resources implication and the assistant commissioner has said as much. As Mr. Ó Cualáin said the last day in respect of the criteria set, it was one issue about which local Garda management must have been happy. If everything else is in place, all things being equal, the question of whether there are sufficient gardaí available to staff the station is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Data (4 Oct 2018)

Alan Kelly: .... The Minister is aware that at the time the Policing Authority had serious issues with the statistics that had been provided to it. There were internal tensions between the deputy head of An Garda Síochána analysis service and senior members of An Garda Síochána management regarding the categorisation of these crimes. In March, two very brave women, Ms Lois West and...

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

Alan Kelly: I accept that it was 2012 but I point out that many of the issues with which we have been dealing in respect of An Garda Síochána and policing relate to that same time period. I will raise one last topic. I was very interested to hear Mr. Nugent's discussion with one of my colleagues in respect of protected disclosures. Obviously I do not want anyone to go into the details of...

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

Alan Kelly: ...important component of the process was that everybody from the rank and file, which was the term used in the relevant passages, all the way up was consulted on making the decisions on reopening Garda stations under the criteria defined by the Department and subsequently under the criteria defined by An Garda Síochána. Is that correct?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Data (4 Oct 2018)

Alan Kelly: .... I just want to know some information. If the Minister does not have the information that is fine and he can let it be known in the next 24 hours. I want to be absolutely certain that when An Garda Síochána gives information to the CSO, in the past and currently, it does not give personal details of victims of crime, include very serious crimes such as murder and rape. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...date stamped. It will not be recreated but is all there. Obviously, it came through the process to the Commissioner and the decision was made. I presume that in the case of Dublin the Assistant Garda Commissioner, Pat Leahy, was fully consulted on this issue. Given gangland crime and the like, I would have presumed that Fitzgibbon Street would have been a bigger priority than leafy...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...put to his colleagues. A sum of €63 million is provided for the justice Vote. I am a little bemused by this. Indeed, I am taken aback by what is being provided. As the Deputy for Templemore, I welcome the 800 new gardaí. I wish it was 1,000. I also welcome the extra number of civilians being taken on board. However, is there provision in the €63 million for a...

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

Alan Kelly: I accept that. I have raised the issue and I think everybody understands my point. My next question is to all of the witnesses who are serving members of An Garda Síochána. The report on breath testing was published. All of the witnesses who are serving members of An Garda Síochána have had significant careers in the organisation, having served in various jurisdictions...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (26 Apr 2012)

Alan Kelly: ...should notify my private office. Concerning the enforcement of SPSV regulations generally, Action 24 of the Taxi Regulation Review Report 2011 deals with strengthened collaboration between An Garda Síochána and the NTA and, among other things, envisages the introduction of Fixed Charge Penalties to improve enforcement. Action 21 states that a range of SPSV fixed charge penalties,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...in how we have done our work on it. Third, the letter is bizarre. If one reads the letter, it is more or less requesting that we send to the Commissioner a copy of the documentation that the Garda Síochána, through their CEO have already sent us. That is bizarre. We can provide the documentation just to be sure but it seems strange that the Garda is sending us information...

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

Alan Kelly: Yes. A case was reported, and it is in the public domain, of a sergeant suspended after working in Bray Garda station. I am just thinking of the taxpayer. There were four inquiries into this lady. There was also a case in which she was found innocent. I am not getting into any of those details. However, from the taxpayer's point of view, after five years this issue should either come to...

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

Alan Kelly: The executive summary is that An Garda Síochána will outline where the college is going in the future and what space requirements are needed. Trust me, the college needs it. The volume of cars, for example, is a nightmare. I accept that the college needs to expand. As a constituency Deputy this is positive and I would be very supportive of it. Having said that I do not believe...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2020)

Alan Kelly: ...a number of questions about how we got to this point, and some of them go deeper than the Taoiseach or the former Minister, Deputy Cowen, in respect of the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána. How did the Minister, Deputy Cowen, receive the data from An Garda Síochána? The Taoiseach referred to it as a Garda report or record but he refers to it as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Divisional Headquarters (5 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: In fairness, I lost a minute so I ask for a little latitude. There is also a lack of consultation. The Garda Representative Association in the county has made valid points about the lack of resources in Tipperary. The Garda Commissioner was unable to tell us how many extra gardaí would result from this changeover. I asked the Commissioner a question the other day but he did not...

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

Alan Kelly: ...of my business if Mr. Nugent uses his private email to communicate with Mr. Ó Cualáin or Mr. Kelly to discuss the results of a GAA match or a golf game that is happening. This is about official Garda business and documentation being shared. My question, the answer to which I can infer because none of the witnesses denied it, was whether anybody had ever sent or received...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (31 May 2011)

Alan Kelly: Under Section 49 of the Taxi Regulation Act 2003 Members of An Garda Síochána are authorised persons for the purpose of enforcement of the 2003 Act. A range of fixed charge offences, which can be issued by authorised persons under Section 46 of the 2003 Act, is set out in the Taxi Regulation Act 2003 (Fixed Charge Offences) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 722 of 2007). In practice only the...

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

Alan Kelly: My background is I was an IT manager before I had the foolishness to enter politics. There is a single point of failure, which is Accenture. It has knowledge of a system that has been built for An Garda Síochána, which means the Garda cannot get rid of Accenture. Mr. Ó Cualáin's organisation has managed to develop that situation where there is a dependency. I know it...