Results 161-180 of 459 for garda speaker:Niall Collins

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Promotions (24 Mar 2015)

Niall Collins: 430. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the persons she has appointed to the Garda promotions board since she was appointed; the process that was followed in making these appointments; if her appointments are in keeping with Regulation 12 (2) of the Garda Síochána (Promotion) Regulations 2006; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Garda Station Opening Hours (30 Apr 2015)

Niall Collins: 125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will immediately reinstate Terenure Garda station, Dublin 6, as a 24-hour station, in view of the vicinity experiencing a 24% increase in its annual figures for burglaries; if she will sanction additional resources and extra personnel to An Garda Síochána for the Terenure area; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (28 Jan 2015)

Niall Collins: ...to the investigation, to provide that information, document or thing to the Commission, and (b) where appropriate, may require that person to attend before the Commission for that purpose, (c) may require the Garda Commissioner to provide the Commission with access to the Garda Síochána Police Using Leading Systems Effectively (PULSE) computer system, and the person and/or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (18 Jun 2015)

Niall Collins: 172. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new applications for handguns, by reference to calibre, make, and model, for target shooting that have been received by An Garda Síochána since she published the joint report of An Garda Síochána and her Department, regarding the review of firearms licensing to date; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Procedures (15 Oct 2019)

Niall Collins: 271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the regulatory bodies in which there is a legal obligation on serving sworn members of An Garda Síochána to provide information on a person who is subject to the rules of the statutory body and who may be under investigation by An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41946/19]

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Niall Collins: I welcome the opportunity to take part in this very important debate on the report of the Garda Inspectorate. As a question and answer session will follow, I will use the opportunity to offer some questions which I hope the Minister will deal with. I thank the chief inspector of the Garda Inspectorate, Mr. Robert Olson, for his clear, unambiguous and very concise report. Having read it,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Districts (1 Oct 2020)

Niall Collins: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which policing in an area (details supplied) is delivered by Garda stations in two separate Garda divisions; if her attention has been further drawn to the difficulties this can create; if the matter will be investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27846/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (16 Jul 2015)

Niall Collins: 401. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the target response time An Garda Síochána seeks to achieve for call-outs to reported incidents of crime, analysed per crime category, including 999 calls; the average call-out response time achieved per crime category, analysed by Garda Síochána division, for the years 2011 to 2014 and for 2015 to date; and if she will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (30 Apr 2014)

Niall Collins: ...realise that what we are saying is the case. We are not playing politics with the issue and we are legitimately raising it here. My question to the Minister about the recruitment process for the Garda Commissioner is linked and is relevant. I will ask him another related question about gangland behaviour because members of An Garda Síochána are targeted. A bomb was laid at...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Niall Collins: ...most sensitive position in Government. That sensitivity arises from the roles and relationships the Minister has with some of the most important institutions of State. He is responsible for the Garda Síochána, he must provide for the Judiciary, and he receives important and confidential information, often pertaining to State security. This motion is the culmination of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (10 Mar 2015)

Niall Collins: 335. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will assign additional resources to Tallaght Garda station, to allow for members of the Garda community unit at the station to complete the necessary training to facilitate them operating on bicycles; her views on the importance of this issue for communities, who need to see gardaí in their locality; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Garda Equipment (30 Apr 2015)

Niall Collins: 130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the impact the Garda helicopter has on residents who reside in close proximity to the M50 when it is in operation at night time; if there is a protocol in place to try and reduce the noise pollution from the Garda helicopter at night; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17076/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (19 Jan 2022)

Niall Collins: ...Justice and Equality the number of drivers listed in court for speeding by District Court in each the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 which resulted in the case being struck out or dismissed due to the Garda or gardaí not being present due to the garda or gardaí being under suspension from duty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2016/22]

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)

Niall Collins: I find the Minister's response amazing. He has said there is no evidence that there was an issue with Garda resources. Why then were previous requests made by the Irish Prison Service for armed escorts for the individual in question declined? Surely, if the agency of State charged with keeping criminals locked up and dealing with issues of this nature requests an armed escort, its request...

Issuing of fixed ticket charges and exercise of Garda discretion: Statements (21 May 2013)

Niall Collins: ...last week regarding penalty points and the allegations of erasing penalty points. We have no issue with those reports. We welcome the finding that there was no corruption. We also agree that An Garda Síochána should be allowed to exercise a degree of discretion. Some people have sought to discredit the reports by saying that the Garda should not investigate the Garda. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: From her experience as the Ombudsman in Northern Ireland and her knowledge of GSOC, what is her opinion on the resourcing of GSOC given the relative size of An Garda Síochána? In other words, how well resourced was her office in terms of the complement or size of the PSNI as against the resourcing of GSOC and the capacity it has to do its job in the context of the size An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed Circuit Television Systems (10 Mar 2015)

Niall Collins: ...for Justice and Equality if she will note the recommendations made at the annual general meeting of the Kilnamanagh,Tallaght, neighbourhood watch scheme in the presence of members of the Tallaght Garda community unit that a closed circuit televison system be provided in the estate to combat crime; if she will discuss the matter with the Garda Commissioner; and if she will make a statement...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2013)

Niall Collins: ...the same standards to himself? That is a fair question because he applied those standards when in opposition but he does not apply them to himself now. We have questions now about the missing Garda reports. The Minister issued a statement at 6.31 a.m. this morning where he said he asked the Secretary General to confirm with the Garda Commissioner if there was a report. The statement...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Niall Collins: I move amendment No. 13:In page 4, line 18, to delete “and subject to the consent of the Minister,”.This issue was discussed on Committee Stage and earlier in our debate on Report Stage. If the Garda Commission is not subject to the same degree of oversight as everybody else in the organisation, GSOC will be perceived to be at a disadvantage and its independence will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: ...knows is wrong. He also knows that 40% of the population of this country resides outside the greater Dublin area and it is they who will be most affected by this decision. He has also closed down Garda stations in the greater Dublin area in Stepaside, Kill-O-the-Grange, Rush and Whitehall, to name but a few. He should not tell the House that this decision is to do with smarter policing....