Results 301-320 of 504 for garda speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., which leaves schools in very great difficulties. I heard no mention of increasing funds for DEIS schools or, importantly, of reducing the student contribution fee. The cut of 15% to resource hours across the system has been devastating. The Government's partial announcement does not come close to reversing that cut. Rural Ireland has been under sustained attack over the past number...

Order of Business (6 Oct 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Regarding the Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, which is working its way through the Oireachtas, would the Taoiseach consider giving the authority a stronger oversight role in cases dealing with allegations of Garda malpractice and cover-up? One family concerned with these issues joins us in the Visitors' Gallery this evening. Ann Doherty, the...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the Commissioner's goose was cooked, if I could use that expression. It is my view that the Commissioner had to go. His credibility was shot and public confidence in him and, by extension, in the Garda at the time, was under incredible pressure. I think that Commissioner had to leave. What Fennelly demonstrates very clearly is the truly remarkable turn of events where the Taoiseach...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (9 Jul 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 149. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to re-open Fitzgibbon Street Garda station in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27995/15]

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...with the special investigations unit seized animals on 24 March 2009 and that these animals were put into the food chain. The same vet subsequently made a sworn statement under oath at Bailieboro Garda Station on 7 July 2009 that the animals contained a toxic substance. How did animals that were suspected of containing a toxic substance find their way into the food chain?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Pension Provisions (19 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: 228. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the calculated losses to Garda pensioners, when those who are currently paid under the advance payment system are moved to an arrears payment system; the mechanisms that will be put in place to mitigate these losses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19254/15]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (12 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... He says this process is under way. Earlier I raised the issue of those groups that fall outside the ICTU umbrella. Is there a parallel process taking place and are officials talking to An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces and so on?

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (12 May 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...those participating in the talks. I raise this issue with the Minister because I wish to know specifically what will be the nature and level of engagement with the unions of the Defence Forces, An Garda Síochána and the psychiatric nurses and those they represent.

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... That is beyond our scope. What we can do is do the right thing in the here and now. Another thing that we cannot do, and that we simply will not do, is carry out the functions and role of An Garda Síochána or the PSNI in the North.

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, the person the Government most criticises here in the course of this exchange, Deputy Adams, has brought information forward to the Garda.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...four people, again including a child, were arrested yesterday. Seventeen arrests have been made to date. It is reported that up to 33 people will be detained in the coming days. The scale of Garda resources deployed for these arrests stands in marked contrast to the lack of Garda response in many communities when families report serious crime. The number of gardaí used to arrest...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of the President. I believe protests should be peaceful and dignified. Indeed, that is what they have been for the most part. I share the concern of a growing number of people that what the gardaí are doing is of a political nature. Does the Tánaiste share my concern that there is a campaign to criminalise the people of Jobstown and the hundreds of thousands of people who are...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not inviting the Tánaiste to interfere in any investigative process. I would not do so. I acknowledge the independence of the Garda and indeed the independence of the Judiciary, both of which are essential pillars of our functioning democratic system. That is why it is essential for the independence of those organisations and institutions to be reasserted in circumstances of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of the organisations she has identified. If she is not concerned about the public perception of this turn of events, she should be because there is growing public concern that the State, through An Garda Síochána, is actively penalising and targeting people who have protested against Government policy.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: Does she share my concerns? Does she recognise that the level of Garda resources deployed has been over the top, frankly?

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: This has happened at a time when Garda resources are stretched.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...interpretation of Standing Order 57. This is the worst imaginable start for the commission of investigation. The job set out in the terms of reference is to investigate serious allegations of Garda malpractice in Cavan and Monaghan. To insist that those terms of reference would go through the Oireachtas mar dhea without the opportunity for democratic scrutiny, debate or amendment, if...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...referral by State agencies – from industrial and reform schools, health and social services, county homes and psychiatric hospitals to the criminal justice system, including the Courts and An Garda Síochána. She has reminded us that some of these Magdalen women were sent to the laundries because they were unmarried mothers. Others were sent because they had physical or...

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...person making the complaint and NAMA, through the witnesses, receiving it, investigating it themselves and writing back to the person, with the only other recourse for the person being to go to the Garda or to a public representative who, by definition, is limited in what they can do?

Public Accounts Committee: National Asset Management Agency Financial Statements 2013 (18 Dec 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., the taxpayer and the integrity of the organisation. However, is it not problematic that there is no independent form of arbitration for those who might have a complaint with NAMA, short of An Garda Síochána or recourse to lawyers? I believe there is a problem with that. We have had this conversation previously. I know it does not accept this analysis but there is a sense...