Results 261-280 of 987 for garda speaker:Leo Varadkar

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...image-based offences will cover the recording and distribution of sexual assaults. The Oireachtas joint committee report will be considered in full once the committee has completed it. An Garda Síochána is also continually improving its specialist services responding to the needs of victims. The Garda Commissioner is now rolling out digital protective service units with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...health issue, albeit one that has a criminal justice aspect to it. Whatever can be said about the health service, there is certainly no restriction or recruitment embargo in place in respect of An Garda Síochána. There has been a significant increase in the number of gardaí in recent years. There are approximately 14,000 gardaí now. The total figure for the force...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...addiction, they can get on with their lives, enter employment, and once again contribute to society. We will continue to increase resources for addiction services in the period ahead. The number of gardaí stands at 14,234. The total Garda workforce is 17,275. We are recruiting more gardaí all the time. Another batch of recruits will be passing out in the coming weeks....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...money to pay for them. We had a recurring problem in previous years of HSE managers taking on staff for whom they did not have the budget. That is not allowed in education, the Civil Service or the Garda. It was an anomaly that the practice was allowed in the health service.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: .... HSE managers are no longer allowed to take on staff without the money to pay them, which is a practice that occurred in the health service. This does not happen in the education sector or the Garda, but it was common practice in the health service for a number of years for managers to take on staff without the budget to pay them. That became the overrun we often talk about at the end...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I am not in a position to answer questions on behalf of the Garda Commissioner or the Garda. The Deputy would have to put that question directly to them and I am sure they would be happy to answer it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: It could take much time. We need practical co-operation between the PSNI and the Garda. Perhaps there could be a joint investigation; I discussed this with the Garda Commissioner and he said he would examine the practicalities of doing this. That can be done quite quickly. We need more resources in the Border region for the Garda, and that is being done. An extra 100 gardaí have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...Holdings are totally unacceptable, as is the violence perpetrated against Kevin Lunney. It is a question of the rule of law. Law and order must prevail in all parts of the country. I met the Garda Commissioner, with the Minister for Justice and Equality, on this matter only last week. I spoke to John McCartin twice on the phone and I will speak to him again. He has been complimentary...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Cabinet Committee G (Justice and Equality) last met on 10 June 2019. Since then a new Cabinet Committee on Security has been established which deals with issues relating to justice, defence, Garda reform and national security. This Cabinet Committee was scheduled to meet on Thursday, 10th of October but the meeting was deferred as I travelled to England on that day to meet with the British...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...am loath to speak about it because I do not have all or any of the facts of some of individual cases. However, I have been informed that there is an investigation under way into this case. There is a Garda investigation and one by the hospital authorities. I do not think it would be appropriate for me or the Minister for Health to comment on an ongoing Garda investigation or one by the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commission on the Future of Policing Membership (22 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...2019). In line with the CoFPI recommendation, the IGPR has an independent Chair – Helen Ryan, former member of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland – and its core membership comprises of senior officials from An Garda Síochána; the Department of Justice and Equality; the Department of the Taoiseach; and the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...the good groundwork done by Deputy O'Dea in his time as the Minister for Defence in putting together some of the emergency planning structures. I wish to acknowledge that too. The Defence Forces, the Garda and other support services have responded to severe weather and other emergencies very well in recent years. Much of that had to do with the work done in recent years in establishing...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Cabinet committee F on national security last met in April 2019. A new Cabinet committee on security has since been established that deals with matters relating to justice, defence, Garda reform and national security. This Cabinet committee was scheduled to meet on Thursday, 10 October, but the meeting was postponed as I travelled to England on that day to meet the British Prime Minister....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: -----in order to ensure that there are fewer chiefs, fewer gardaí in offices and more sergeants and inspectors on the ground in communities, less bureaucracy and duplication at Garda senior level and more decisions being made at local level.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: The Government’s policy is to be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. Part of being tough on crime is providing more resources for gardaí as well as ensuring the Garda Síochána is reformed in order that those resources turn into actual gardaí on the street and on the ground for people to see them. This is what all the reforms are about. It is about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...are more realistic and more in line with those of other countries. We also need the insurance industry to play its part in bringing down premiums and reducing its profit margins. We also have the Garda involved in stepping up its activities relating to the investigation of fraud. The Government has asked the Law Reform Commission to undertake a detailed analysis as to whether we could...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: This is a homicide. A Garda investigation is under way. The only person responsible for this is the individual who killed that poor man. I strongly encourage anyone who has information to provide it to the Garda so that officers can carry out their work and bring the person who killed this poor man to justice. That is what should happen. We are building secure accommodation, with over...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...read about the killing of Timothy Hourihane in Cork. On behalf of the entire House, I extend my sympathies to his friends, to his family and to all of those who worked with him down the years. An Garda Síochána is treating this death as a homicide and, therefore, a criminal investigation is under way. I encourage anyone who has any information whatsoever about this suspected...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...2019 and Cabinet Committee F (National Security) last met on 1April 2019. Since then a new Cabinet Committee on Security has been established which deals with issues relating to justice, defence, Garda reform and national security. This Cabinet Committee was scheduled to meet on Thursday, 10th of October but the meeting was postponed as I travelled to England on that day to meet with...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...the help-to-buy scheme for first-time buyers, which has helped more than 15,000 first-time buyers to purchase a home since it was launched. We hope that as many will benefit over the next two years. We will honour the commitments we have made to restore and increase pay for hard-working public servants. Approximately €400 million will be set aside next year for teachers,...