Results 201-220 of 833 for garda speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (25 Apr 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no Garda vetting application has been issued by the HSE to An Garda Síochána in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal as required for a staffing vacancy with home support services; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this failure may render the person's job application invalid as a result; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (18 Apr 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations in the Donegal division that underwent refurbishments in 2017 and to date in 2018; and the works carried out at each station. [16867/18]

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...power by a Government whose sole interest is not that of ordinary people but of self preservation and promotion. There is an addiction to spin at the heart of the Varadkar Government. The revelations we heard at the weekend about an attempt to establish a campaign based on Garda figures the Central Statistics Office, CSO, refused to stand over is just the latest example of that. Five...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (20 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to Donegal town Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12028/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (20 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each Garda station in County Donegal in each of the years 2008 to 2017 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12031/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (20 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents reported to An Garda Síochána at each Garda station in County Donegal for each of the years 2008 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12029/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Opening Hours (20 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda stations in County Donegal which were open to the public on a 24 hour basis in each of the years 2008 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12030/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is on the same issue. I am glad to support what Deputy MacSharry said about the Garda station in Donegal town, which is going from a 24-hour service to a six-hour service. This is on the back of many Garda stations having been closed in Donegal as a result of Deputy MacSharry's party closing down the recruitment of gardaí via Templemore-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: -----which has devastated Garda services in our county and across the country. That being said, we are where we are. Why is this being contemplated now? Is it the fact that the Chief Whip does not have the same clout as the Minister, Deputy Ross? Is it quid pro quo, with one station getting opened in one part of the country through the sacrifice of rural Ireland? The people of rural...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: -----a depletion of services time and again. At a time when we see record numbers of gardaí going through the training college, will the Minister ensure that the necessary number of gardaí will be provided to Donegal for us to keep our Garda stations open?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: ...separate consumer protection organisation as part of this process? Is there any divergence of opinion between the Central Bank and the Department or is it the position similar to that between the Garda Commissioner and Department of Justice and Equality to the extent that everything is worked out between the Central Bank and Department beforehand? That is not a serious question. I am...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: ...no prosecution. The Tánaiste was aware of that because she was the Minister who had to pass that on to the independent review mechanism. When she saw this email in May 2015 she was aware that the Garda Commissioner was instructing her legal team to put those accusations which had been dismissed by the DPP and the independent review commission to the sergeant. Allegations of sexual...

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Nobody is making the accusation, to my knowledge, that the Tánaiste or Department were involved in devising a strategy which was devised by the Garda Commissioner in regard to Sergeant McCabe. The accusation we are making is that the Minister became aware not of the generalities but the specifics of this. The Taoiseach has seen that letter and I ask him to put it in the public domain....

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: ...issue. We have contradictory information, which raises more questions, particularly given the Tánaiste's interview on RTÉ. She now tells us that she was aware in May 2015 that legal counsel for the Garda Commissioner was making allegations of a serious criminal nature against Sergeant McCabe and was also claiming that this complaint had not been investigated. We hear that...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: ..., as to how this tracker scandal occurred in the first place; — investigate whether there was any co-ordination, formal or informal, across the industry in the handling of tracker related issues; — report circumstances where it obtains information that gives rise to a suspicion that a criminal offence may have been committed by any individual to the relevant authorities...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: ...rate are restored at the appropriate rate. Members had an opportunity to speak with one voice last time but unfortunately, the amendment from Fianna Fáil deleted my original motion, which called on the Central Bank, the Garda and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement to co-operate with a view to establishing whether individuals and corporate entities could be held...

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

Pearse Doherty: .... We have argued for €170 million on public roads and transport this year - 17 times more than the Government's figure. Incredibly, given the state our roads and public transport, the Government plans to spend almost as much on opening Stepaside Garda station for the Minister, Deputy Ross, than is planned to be spent on the entire new public transport services within the same...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting (20 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to revise the current Garda vetting process for substitute teaching positions requiring that candidates undergo Garda vetting requirements in order to simplify the relevant procedures with the view to minimising, in so far as possible and without diminishing the robust and crucial scrutiny of candidates, the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (11 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 611. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the competition for the selection of Garda trainees the number of such recruitment campaigns that have been initiated in 2016 and and to date in 2017; the number of applications that were received in respect of each campaign; the number of applicants that were subsequently accepted to undergo Garda training in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (11 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the competition for the selection of garda trainees initiated in January 2016, the number of applicants to whom an order of merit was awarded after having been placed within the top 200 ranking of applicants have subsequently been accepted to undergo the relevant garda training programme; if similar such...