Results 141-160 of 256 for garda speaker:Paul Murphy

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...this week when we got a glimpse of the dark, rotten and sinister underbelly of the Irish State, namely, the black propaganda campaign that has been alleged to have come from the top of An Garda Síochána. The response of the Government to the exposure gives a glimpse of the threat to people's basic democratic rights that exists. The response of the Government was to engage in...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...decreased 30% since 2012. The criminalisation of the unemployed and the sick is graphically seen in a project currently under way in the Department to share data with the RSA in order to link car registration data with welfare records. It is an attempt to be able to set up Garda checkpoints, with Department officials on hand, to use driver licence data to check if a person is claiming...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...meter protests. Four people were jailed for three weeks for going within 20 metres of water meter installation. A spying operation against anti-water charges activists was run, called Operation Mizen, led by the Garda Commissioner's husband. However, right now, there is the most serious attack on the right to protest yet - a vindictive prosecution of a 17 year old young man over the...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...the risk of abuse of this section. It means that rather than having to prove hatred was a motive for abusive or insulting behaviour, for example, in relation to public order offences, all a garda would have to do was say under oath that someone used a racist or sexist slur during or immediately after abusive or insulting behaviour. We know the word of a garda in the courts would carry a...

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...morning on Chancery Lane in Dublin 8, and which appeared on the www.broadsheet.iewebsite. People should look at this online. The footage shows someone who is rough sleeping interacting with a garda and being pepper-sprayed and treated in a rough manner. At first viewing, this would seem be very troubling and deserves investigation as to what happened. In regard to the question of rent...

Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: One of the women reported harassment to the gardaí. She was told that it was a case of boy meets girl and that there was nothing to investigate. We know that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, was of little use, and so far the Taoiseach has also been of no help. This pattern of State harassment and State violence against women, and minimising and ignoring it, is...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...to and from work with him each day. He, therefore, feels forced to drive as a learner without a fully licensed driver in the car. The result is that he has had his car taken from him by the Garda on four occasions. He will have five penalty points on his licence before he even gets his full licence. He has faced the cost of €135 each time to get his car back. The young man has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...to leave before those threatening her would come back and stab her and her husband. The local Fianna Fáil councillor shamefully made excuses for the arsonists, refusing to co-operate with the Garda. The Government is going along with the lie that immigration is the cause of many problems facing our society. It cedes more and more ground to the far right and it legitimises its...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...listened to the Minister and most of the Opposition speakers express broad support for the Bill. That was generally couched in terms of how transformative this new technology can be in freeing up gardaí, saving thousands of hours of Garda time and revolutionising policing. We should be clear and honest that body cameras, greater use of drone footage, CCTV or especially facial...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...on Saturday and making their views known, but I have a lot less confidence in the Government. What is the State going to do to protect people? Why did it take so long, more than a day, for the Garda to issue a statement debunking the dangerous lies being spread by the far right? When the far right is spreading lies about imaginary crimes, why is there not an immediate response to tell...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ..., in particular the lack of clear human-rights based definitions and the insertion of problematic new clauses relating to hate speech that are wide open to abuse by individual District Court judges and gardaí. It is mainly the sections on hate speech in Part 2 that we find problematic. We agree with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties that hate speech should not have been bundled...

Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...students come here they are not given a thousand welcomes. A few months ago, one could have seen, even at 10 o'clock at night, a significant number of people, primarily students, queueing outside the Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB. At other times of the year the queues start at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. as people are forced to jump through hoops in the absence of an online application...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy Report: Statements (22 Nov 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...disrupted. Protestors exposed the fact that this forum had and has no democratic legitimacy or public support. Every opinion poll for decades has shown that the Irish people fully support neutrality. An Garda Síochána was then called in to forcibly remove protestors in violation of their democratic rights, so that the propaganda exercise could continue. This exercise is about...

Government Response to Salisbury Attack: Statements (27 Mar 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...over 30 people - and we know the British were responsible - no diplomats are expelled. So-called "spycops" from Britain have been here and in abusive relationships with women without the knowledge of the Garda or the Government, but nothing has been done about that. We are aware of the gross attacks on democratic rights taking place right now in the Spanish state. Mr. Puigdemont's...

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...head of the Beacon Hospital seems to be distributing vaccines to whomever he wants. The idea of it being left to the Beacon Hospital to hire someone to investigate what happened there is simply not good enough. The Garda should be involved to establish if a crime was committed and there should be a rapid public audit, involving the IMO and patient representatives, to see if there was...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...of people who have concerns about asylum seekers coming into their communities are not far right. That is absolutely true. It is also very obvious that there is a far right. Contrary to what the Garda Commissioner said, while it is still very small, it is, unfortunately, a growing far right that has a very significant hand in some of the protests and some of what has been taking place....

Parole Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...'Callaghan why this is the case and that these other ideas be given consideration on Committee and subsequent Stages. For example, we think it is important that risk assessments carried out by the Garda as part of the process not be carried out by gardaí who had been directly involved in the case, as clearly there is a danger, or at the very least a perceived danger, of bias. There...

European Union Directive: Motion (19 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...who are victims of this human trafficking. According to a report from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, this year, between 2015 and 2020 some 356 people were identified by the Garda as victims of trafficking and almost 60% of them were non-EU citizens. Of course, the true figures are likely to be significantly higher. According to the report from the ESRI: ... victims...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...media organisations are toying with trans people's lives for the sake of advertising revenue. The case of the former CEO of Transgender Equality Network Ireland, TENI, Eirenne Carroll, who was subjected to what the Garda told her was a credible death threat and subsequently left the country, shows just how serious this is for trans people. It is not some abstract, academic, interesting...

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: .... It is not in the normal business of people deleting messages that they are finished with and so on that somehow they are gone; it would require a special effort to remove them from that. The Tánaiste is under Garda investigation for that. We will see what transpires. I have previously given my views on that, but it is quite significant. Then, we get to this issue of the other...