Results 241-260 of 342 for garda speaker:Marc MacSharry

Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)

Marc MacSharry: All families with three children will have ¤18 less per month. Let me examine the details that are coming, as I speak, from the other House. One hundred Garda stations will be closed. Did the backbenchers know that? Did the Senators know that?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2012)

Marc MacSharry: ...announced, Ministers should not fly kites. As Senator Byrne has said, it is a sad day when our target is the people who are directly at the coalface on the front line. It is the nurses, soldiers, gardaí and teachers. Those people in middle Ireland, who are lucky enough to have jobs-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)

Marc MacSharry: ...Sligo where somebody sitting in his home was tied up, beaten and left to die for a number of days. It shows a lack of fear among criminals that this crime took place yards from both the regional Garda headquarters and the seat of law and order, the courthouse, and near my own office. The victim was respected and he was no different from people in all our communities who could be killed...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Marc MacSharry: ..., yet nothing is being done about it. Some draconian measures need to be introduced by the Department of Justice and Equality, whereby a conviction can be secured by the sworn testimony of a Garda superintendent. Everybody knows who the illegal moneylenders are. Everybody knows where they are lending, how much they are lending and the damage they are doing to society. Frankly, it is...

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Marc MacSharry: ...over the years and every parish benefited. Senator O'Brien mentioned there were surpluses in previous budgets and money to give away but it was never enough. There was always more to be paid to gardaí, more teachers to be taken on, more schools to be built or more money for GAA parks and so on. The job of the Opposition at the time was to criticise budgets. I am the first to...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2011: Statements (8 Dec 2010)

Marc MacSharry: ...that we blew the boom and so on, it is worth reminding ourselves of some of what the Minister of State said, namely, that €6 billion was spent on our road network during recent years, 4,000 more gardaí were recruited, 1,700 new prison places were provided, 9,000 more special needs assistants were recruited and we trebled the rates of social welfare between 2000 and 2009 when the prices...

Seanad: Illegal Moneylending (6 Oct 2010)

Marc MacSharry: ...family home repossessions group, and having been further informed by a community group in Sligo called Communities Against Illegal Moneylending, the members of which comprise representatives of the Garda Síochána, RAPID, elected members, members of the regeneration project at Cranmore, the money advice and budgeting service, MABS, the credit union, various community groups, social...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2010: Motion (29 Sep 2010)

Marc MacSharry: ...'s comments in the Lower House that if anyone has information suggesting there was a deliberate attempt to provide incorrect information at that time, the information should be brought to the Garda Síochána as a matter of the utmost urgency. Default is not an option. I attended a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service last week. One would presume the...

Seanad: Whistleblowing in the Financial Sector: Statements (2 Jun 2010)

Marc MacSharry: .... We have legal whistleblowing safeguards to cover people reporting suspicions of child abuse, breaches of ethics legislation and competition law and problems with workplace health and safety. Gardaí and Garda civilian employees can report corruption or malpractice. Health care employees can report threats to the welfare of patients. Whistleblowing provisions also apply to offences...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2010)

Marc MacSharry: ...all else, real leadership is required. In this context, I agree with Senator Quinn and others, in that I hope the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform have sent for the Garda Commissioner this morning. What we heard yesterday was reprehensible. Such words from gardaí were disgraceful. There is no question but that we are in difficult times in terms of...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Marc MacSharry: ...that they have been communicated with. Subsection (6) makes it an offence for the employee not to report the communication. While one may be ill-advised not to communicate the information to the Garda or one's superiors, one's not doing so should not be an offence.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)

Marc MacSharry: ...could contribute to the ongoing preparations for NAMA by further examining it. I ask the Leader to raise with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the embargo on promotions within the Garda Síochána. It has come to my attention that issues have arisen in several divisions on foot of retirements in supervisory ranks. While the number of gardaí is adequate, there are...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Marc MacSharry: ...the confines of EU rules and directives. I have noted today's media reports on the answer that was given to a question asked by Deputy Varadkar in the other House. It seems that many of the Garda uniforms that will be supplied in this country over the next few years will be manufactured abroad. I accept that they will be provided through the Irish agent that was given the contract to...

Seanad: Corporate Governance: Motion (13 May 2009)

Marc MacSharry: ...work has been done by the tribunals, it is time they began to wrap up their work. We have seen some political wrongdoing in the past but as a public representative I would much prefer to see the gardaí investigate such matters to ensure that when wrongdoing is found, people receive the full rigours of the law in terms of punishment if they are found to be in receipt of bribes or abusing...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 May 2009)

Marc MacSharry: ..., especially given people's urgent needs in these difficult days. Second, I am concerned about illegal moneylending, which came to my attention in a recent discussion with some members of the Garda. I also mentioned it last week. Elements from the criminal world are lending money to people, again when they are at their most desperate, and then heavy-handedly seeking repayment,...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2009)

Marc MacSharry: ...public services, which I agree we can no longer afford to provide, the Opposition was calling for increased expenditure on other issues. Senator Hannigan calls for appropriate expenditure on the Garda. I want more money to spend on everything, not least my constituency in the north west, but that is not possible any more. We must live in the real world. The international situation is...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)

Marc MacSharry: ...in terms of civil liberties but there are ways in which we can deal with access. One example is the use of the electoral register and other aspects of data protection which can assist the Garda, the Irish Fraud Bureau and others in their work. A debate on that would be most welcome. I agree with Senator Walsh on the need for a debate on the media. We must be conscious that there is now...

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Marc MacSharry: ...want to see justice done. We are going through the appropriate measures in terms of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the Financial Regulator and the various agencies within the Garda Síochána. We saw a quite public display of that yesterday as part of that due process. However, I am afraid it will not be possible to increase the speed or have lynchings at dawn to...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2007)

Marc MacSharry: ...road. However, a police presence would discourage drivers from taking risks on a road that is not capable of taking cars driving within the speed limit, much less those driving in excess of it. Garda enforcement should focus on blackspots rather than on good roads where drivers can be caught travelling at 105 km/h or 110 km/h in a 100 km/h zone. While they are breaking the law and...

Seanad: Road Safety Authority Bill 2004: Second Stage. (10 May 2006)

Marc MacSharry: ...airplanes. At the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the number of people killed in certain years may have lower than the number of people killed on the roads but there were 3,000 or 4,000 gardaí and half of the Army at checkpoints during that time. Yet, the problem of road deaths is more serious on an ongoing basis so we must commit additional resources or introduce additional...