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

Peadar Tóibín: ...far and is an infringement on privacy. The ICCL has stated that possessing material in your home without the clear intention of ever making it public should not be an offence. It is an incredible idea that gardaí could be going into people's homes to search them on that basis. I agree with a previous speaker that this enters into the realm of thought policing. The Minister tells...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...programme in Galway for 2023 to 2027 and the lack of a dedicated island LEADER subgroup fund for the offshore islands. Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the public use of the swimming pool in Templemore Garda College. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae - to discuss the critical situation in Kerry regarding accommodation for a person with intellectual disability in residential care. Deputy Aengus...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Nov 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...Statistics Office (CSO) is Ireland's national statistical office and is the body with responsibility for publishing all crime statistics. The CSO produces these statistics using data recorded on An Garda Síochána’s PULSE system and makes regular releases under reservation in relation to various crime statistics. The CSO also continues to work with An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Nov 2022)

Helen McEntee: I understand the Deputy is referring to Parliamentary Questions No. 599, 736 and 396 of 17 May 2022, 12 July 2022 and 27 September 2022, which asked for 'the number of interview rooms in each Garda station within DMR as of 9 May 2022, in tabular form; and if any of those rooms are reserved for suspects, victims or witnesses of crime and that are aged under 18 years of age’.  As...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...O'Sullivan - to discuss fuel subsidy for the fishing sector with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the public use of the swimming pool in the Garda Síochána College, Templemore. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor - to discuss the model of contracts for services between the Departments of Social Protection and Health, and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda recruits who have actually started training in Templemore in each month for the past five years; the strength of the Garda Reserve for each of the past ten years and the number of gardaí who have retired for each of the past ten years. [53662/22]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...for fuel allowance. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - to discuss capacity and staffing issues at University Hospital Limerick. Deputy David Stanton - to discuss the need to begin recruitment for the Garda Reserve. Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss the need for more regular inspections of housing assistant payment properties. Deputy Paul McAuliffe - to discuss the issue of safety on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Antisocial Behaviour (20 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

David Stanton: ...district. That is not the case now. They are only at county level, which brings them away from the local aspect. I asked the Minister to have another look at the earlier question about the Garda Reserve. It is very disappointing that that might not happen until this time next year. It should happen early next year, not later.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Garda Reserve (20 Oct 2022) See 9 other results from this debate

James Browne: One of the things we can do is to highlight the importance of the Garda Reserve and the role it can play in supporting An Garda Síochána. Recruitment to the Garda Reserve did cease and it is regrettable that there has been a reduction in the strength of the reserve in recent years. The Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland concluded that the Garda Reserve programme was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Oct 2022) See 2 other results from this answer

Seán Haughey: 29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current strength of the Garda Reserve; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52176/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Jim O'Callaghan: 32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the role she believes that the Garda reserve should play in policing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52116/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill 2022: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

...of places of detention and to designate it the national preventive mechanism for the criminal justice sector. That would mean we would have responsibility for monitoring not only prisons but also Garda Síochána stations and other places of detention. I emphasise that, in future, all our inspection activity will be carried out in our national preventive mechanism, NPM, capacity....

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...violence laws. I believe their availability will encourage victims to come forward and engage with supports at an earlier stage. An order may be sought by either an affected person or by the gardaí on his or her behalf. The court may make an order where there are reasonable grounds for believing that a respondent has engaged in relevant conduct, and the making of the order is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: ...expressing our sympathies to the people in Creeslough and the wider Donegal community. We thank those from north and south of the Border who rushed to try to help on Friday. I raise the matter of Garda numbers. I very much welcome that up to 1,000 extra Garda recruits have been sanctioned by the Government. However, we should look at making greater use of retired members of the force...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: That is a shocking reply. The Minister for Justice needs to take heed. She is accountable to this House. I am sick and tired of Ministers coming in here to refer to the Garda Commissioner, head of the HSE and all these people. They are not elected or accountable to the people. We are supposed to have a Government here. We are celebrating 100 years of our freedom, having set up our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

...Act defines coercive control as including the fear of domestic violence. We directly asked the Department to explain how victims would be able to prove that fear when they are too afraid to go to the Garda. These are issues that we raised in our submission. When people are in vulnerable and precarious situations, how do they do that? Coming back to IBEC’s position, as the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2022)

Lisa Chambers: ...with Jason Poole regarding his sister, who we know lost her life to domestic violence. The Senator reiterated the call for a domestic violence register of offenders that would be accessed by An Garda Síochána and possibly potential victims. It is the strong belief of Jason Poole that Jennifer would not have lost her life had that register been available. A debate with the...

Seanad: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Michael McDowell: ...but there is a significant outward migration from the Defence Forces, which we have to face up to. I see Senator Chambers is present. This will not be an all-male occasion and others may also contribute. The Reserve Defence Forces needs attention. The strategy for the Defence Forces envisages that the Reserve will be brought up to a strength of between 3,000 and 4,000 individuals but I...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...with the cost of going to college, by cutting fees, raising the student grant and making it available to more people. We are building safer and stronger communities by providing more resources to the Garda and the Defence Forces, who protect us. We are ensuring the best start for every child with major investment in childcare and early education. We are putting €2 billion aside...