Results 1-20 of 625 for garda speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a local issue but it speaks volumes about a bigger one. I was pretty shocked by an advertisement I was sent last night relating to Dalkey Garda station, which is up for sale. It has been sitting derelict for about a decade. I cannot believe it is being sold. Local community groups and other organisations are crying out for spaces to use, we have a massive housing crisis, there is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (21 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to sell the former Dalkey Garda station site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22648/24]

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...But the questions I want to ask are about what this State owes to the families and the victims. How could it be – the State surely has some information about this – that the investigations here were closed down after ten weeks? Why are the Garda files missing? These have never been seen and are generally believed to have been destroyed. Why was the forensic evidence of...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that took place. There is widespread belief that there was British state collusion in that. However, the question they ask, as we approach the 50th anniversary is, will the State release the Garda files relating to this matter? I refer to the investigative files on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings which 29 Ministers for Justice have refused to release to the families.

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...investigate a series of deadly attacks by loyalist paramilitaries in Ireland in the early and mid-1970s including the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. They particularly castigated the failure of the Garda and the State to produce the files on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. The anniversary of those massacres is coming up on 17 May. A new documentary film in which the families have been...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 921. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of breaches of protection, safety and barring orders (including interim barring orders) that were made to An Garda Síochána in 2021, 2022 and 2023; the number of subsequent arrests that are made following such reports; the number of convictions in court on foot of these reports; and if she will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Transport Policy (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...late at night are not the fault of taxi drivers any more than they are the fault of bus workers. These issues have to be addressed by the Government, the National Transport Authority, NTA, An Garda Síochána and so on, rather than land at the door or taxi drivers. Critically, regarding passenger safety, it has been pointed that when you get into a properly regulated taxi, you...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (20 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if in the instance of a first passport application there is a necessity of the identity verification form section 7 to be witnessed by a member of An Garda Síochána or whether any witness from the list provided on the gov.ie website is suitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7626/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (28 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of our hearts go out to the five-year-old girl and her carer who were the victims of a horrendous and tragic event. However, the expressions of bewilderment from the Government or An Garda Síochána about how the unfolding events could have happened are, to be honest, quite staggering. People, and not just us but others, who are watching the far right have been warning how...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Supplementary)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure. How many empty Garda stations did the Minister of State say he had? Was it 25?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...significant delays in the processing times for their Irish naturalisation applications, compared with applicants who applied in 2023, who have had their applications processed and have also received Garda vetting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24834/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., when the asset strippers who took over that company walked away with £315 million sterling. At the end of that dispute, which the film highlights in the most shocking way, there was an enormous simultaneous Garda mobilisation to break the occupations and strikes in Henry Street, Cork, Limerick, Tralee, Waterford and so on. It was a massive Garda mobilisation to assist the company...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of the Bill are, as set out in the explanatory memorandum, to "recognise the prevention of harm to individuals, particularly those who are vulnerable or at risk, as an explicit objective of An Garda Síochána; provide a new coherent governance and oversight framework for policing that will strengthen both the internal management of An Garda Síochána and independent...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...unoccupied properties, most of which have been vacant since 2013, and a small number are empty for almost half a century. Some 70 of these are buildings and 38 are unused sites. Some 47 of these are Garda stations that were closed in 2012 and 2013 and still lie empty, including two in my own area: Kill of the Grange, Deans Grange and Dalkey Garda stations, and many other such stations...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not sell Dublin Garda stations-----

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a plan has been made for the sale or repurpose of the Dalkey and Kill o' the Grange Garda stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14608/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 419. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 5 May 2021, when the information requested will be provided by An Garda Síochána. [34551/21]

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...one is on minimum wage and happens to live in Dún Laoghaire, one does not get a higher minimum wage. A public servant who happens to live in south Dublin does not get a higher wage from the Civil Service. A teacher, a member of the Garda or a nurse does not get paid more because he or she happens to live in Dún Laoghaire but house prices and rents in the area are multiples of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...generally and learn some lessons from it. In the case of George Nkencho, his family deserve an investigation into the circumstances of his shooting. The family of Terence Wheelock, who died in Garda custody in 2005, have been fighting for justice as regards how he died.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the past few months when it became so clear that this Government was not willing to do anything, and bravery in the face of the outrageous behaviour we saw in Henry Street and in Waterford in the past week or so when gardaí, some of whom were in paramilitary garb, were sent in to drag mostly women - mothers and grandmothers - off picket lines in order to facilitate strike breakers....