Results 301-320 of 1,129 for garda speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: We were told it was imminent when the Garda Commissioner was last before the committee. The definition of terminology is-----

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Transport (28 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of electric vehicles andor hybrid vehicles in the allocation of ministerial vehicles that are vehicles from the Garda fleet; and if she will provide the make and model of all vehicles of same by the year registration. [21611/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I have a question on the details of the number of queries handled. When GSOC opens a case and investigates, have its decisions always been accepted by the Garda Síochána or has any recommendation or finding been revoked by the Garda Commissioner? What is the relationship? Is a decision generally accepted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Is it possible to make a complaint about a Garda station rather than an individual Garda? I will use as an example the case of Sergeant Maurice McCabe because there was a culture in a station. Is it possible to make that kind of complaint or should the complaint about the individual be made to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC? How would something like that be handled?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: In relation to the meeting with the Garda Commissioner, I understand there needs to be a working relationship. It is an independent organisation and there needs to be respect for that independence. Has there been a difficulty with the division of labour? Has there been conflict between the guards and GSOC in relation to who should have responsibility for particular investigations?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I am not looking for details of protected disclosures but has GSOC got such disclosures? Do they come internally from GSOC or from An Garda Síochána? What tends to be the profile?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: When the Garda is asked for statistics, it says it does not publish statistics and that one has to go to the Central Statistics Office for them. At the same time, the CSO publishes the crime statistics with a disclaimer that they are under revision. We have already heard from Ms Hall about very serious crimes that have been misclassified. What is her view on the status of crime statistics?...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...reader of policing plans over many years. Part of the reason I have been interested in them is that I have looked at the distribution of resources, which of course is the responsibility of the Garda Commissioner. If you do not have a sufficient number of gardaí, you get a reactive type of policing. It has a real impact. There are particular types of crimes that do not show up if...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I have had meetings over the years with senior officers of the Garda who told me that the outlook of divisional officers was, essentially, "what we have, we hold".

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. Several retirements are due at the same time. We talked to the Garda Commissioner about this matter last week. It is not an ideal situation from the perspective of workforce planning or institutional memory, etc. I asked the Garda Commissioner about another aspect where he said he was not seeing a pattern. Anecdotally, however, I am hearing about people retiring before they are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...it requires to be. We have the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, for example, which will become new agency, the Corporate Enforcement Authority, CEA. There are members of the Garda embedded there and there is a memorandum of understanding to position members of the Garda within the new authority. There has been a great deal of criticism from the ODCE in respect of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...of investigation, even where there are negative findings. The Moriarty tribunal is a case in point. It has gone back and forth between the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, and the Garda Síochána since it reported in 2011. There are alternatives to tribunals of inquiry. We need to get to that point where we have a satisfactory means of dealing with issues that require...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a new contract for the provision of new Garda roads policing motorcycles will be put out to tender during quarter 2 of 2022. [17717/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time forensic speech analysts employed by An Garda Síochána. [17719/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all Garda members attached to community policing units have been issued with state-of-the-art frontline mobile devices. [17720/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 604. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capital funding allocated to the Garda small capital works budget in 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [17721/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Youth Services (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 633. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of persons employed as youth justice workers in Garda youth diversion projects in Ireland in tabular form by county and or appropriate geographical area. [18391/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...but I do not have the time to go into that. I have a number of other issues I want to raise with the Commissioner. With regard to the appropriation accounts, there is a reference on page 5 to the Garda youth diversion programme. I have been looking at the crime statistics and what happens with a formal caution or whether somebody is unsuitable. I am a great believer in the juvenile...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...investigation now completed? Is there an issue with staff retention? It has been reported recently that members who are not at retirement age are resigning. Is there an issue there that An Garda Síochána has identified? If so, what is being done to deal with it? Some of the changes made to rosters during the Covid period were welcomed by members. Are measures like that...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...landed in Ireland with no support base and, in many cases, without English or very little English. They have also been absolutely traumatised. The Government has announced that it will conduct Garda vetting for people offering rooms to children and vulnerable adults, but we all can agree that every person needs to be protected from this type of abuse. Not everyone is going through...