Results 301-320 of 875 for garda speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad] Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...clearly responsibility for walking victims or their family through the appropriate impact statement process. This responsibility should be assigned to some part of the justice system, whether the Garda Síochána, someone from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Courts Service or the judge's office. This would ensure that families are fully aware of what can or...

Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2010: Second Stage (4 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...The hit rate of crime scene matches to suspects on the database in England and Wales for 2008 and 2009 stands at 60%. This sounds fantastic and any crime detection force in the world, including An Garda Síochána, would love that to be true. However, upon further investigation we see that the match rate is only for cases where DNA is actually obtained from a crime scene, the number of...

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (2 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 258: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current procedure if a serving PSNI officer wishes to join An Garda Síochána; if there is adequate protocols in place to allow this and due recognition to the training and service of such officers; his views on making such transfers easier as occurs between other jurisdictions within the European Union. [9897/10]

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (2 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current procedure if a serving British Metropolitan or other British police service officers wishes to join An Garda Síochána; if there are adequate protocols in place to allow this and due recognition to the training and service of such officers; his views on making such transfers easier as occurs between other...

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (2 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of serving members of An Garda Síochána who were previously members of another police service. [9899/10]

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (2 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 261: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications received by the Garda Síochána from police officers serving in other jurisdictions who wish to join the Garda Síochána in the past ten years. [9900/10]

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...líon dóibh siúd atá ag tiomáint faoi thionchar drugaí mídhleathacha agus drugaí dleathacha. The final point I was making as gaelige is that the incidence of drug driving is increasing. The Garda Síochána need to be given adequate resources to test not alone for alcohol but illegal drug taking by drivers. I was interested to hear that 30% of accidents are caused by poor road...

Written Answers — Garda Code of Ethics: Garda Code of Ethics (17 Feb 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the year in which the Garda code of ethics was adopted. [8227/10]

Written Answers — Prison Accommodation: Prison Accommodation (16 Feb 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...visit to Ireland from 25 January to 5 February in 2010 by the committee for the prevention of torture investigating conditions of detention in prisons, and examining the safeguards in place in Garda stations and also the findings of their investigation of the conditions in psychiatric institutions and an establishment for the intellectually disabled; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (16 Feb 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 340: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the gardaí have requested information from insurance companies regarding data gathered using global positioning systems installed in vehicles for the investigation of complaints; the number of requests made during each of the years 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009; the number of these investigations which resulted in...

Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Second Stage (16 Feb 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...úil a thionscnamh trí choistí fiosrúcháin. D'ardaigh cinneadh na Cúirte Uachtaraí i 2002 an cheist nuair a cuireadh deireadh leis an iniúchadh ag an fhiosrúchán a tharla nuair a scaoil na gardaí John McCarthy in Abbeylara an 9 Aibreán 2000. Bhí stair de mheabhar-ghalar ar an Uas. McCarthy sular scaoileadh é agus tar éis dó féin a ghlasáil ina theach le gunna gan aon...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (9 Feb 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if all the portable electrical equipment in his Department and subsidiary or grant aided companies such as the Courts Service of Ireland, An Garda Síochána, Irish Prison Service and so on, have portable appliance test certificates as required by the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulation S.I. No. 299 of...

Gangland Crime: Motion (2 Feb 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...motion is disgraceful and self-congratulatory. It seeks in its tone to deny the real facts which are that gangland killings are on the increase. There have been five killings in one month. The Garda Síochána has exceeded its target on the capture of drugs - which is to be welcomed. I have gone out of my way to welcome this success and I have encouraged Minister after Minister to do...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (26 Jan 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 401: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of postings overseas of members of An Garda Síochána in the past five years; the remit of the posting; the length of time of the posting; the number of Garda members seconded to such posting to date in 2010; the cost to date of the posting; if the State has been reimbursed for moneys expended on the posting...

Report by Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (1 Dec 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...abusers of children. Especially damning is the conclusion that the State authorities facilitated the cover-up and allowed the church to operate beyond the reach of normal law enforcement. Senior gardaí, up to and including the level of Commissioner, repeatedly turned a blind eye to crimes of clerical sexual abuse. They colluded in crime, in depraved sexual attacks and in an abuse of...

International Human Trafficking: Motion (17 Nov 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...prosecutions only. It must always be remembered that these are the victims of an odious crime. By the same token, it is crucial the recovery period not be made dependent on co-operation with the Garda. Many victims are simply too traumatised. Often they may have genuine and understandable fears about co-operating with the police due to the nature of policing in their home countries....

Written Answers — Vagrancy Prosecutions: Vagrancy Prosecutions (10 Nov 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the gardaí do not take action regarding young people seen begging on city streets here during school hours in view of the fact that national legislation requires school attendance until the age of 16. [40263/09]

Vote 12 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary) (20 Oct 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...date and that additional cost is not heaped upon the DPP owing to mistimed court cases. The cuts in the Estimate for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions last year and the cuts in Garda overtime, the blocking of promotions in the Garda Síochána and the recruitment ban all add up to major problems in the justice system in the foreseeable future. In addition there is the...

Vote 12 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary) (20 Oct 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Nobody is taking anything away from the Garda Síochána.

Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Second Stage (8 Oct 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: .... It then becomes a difficulty when one must interrogate the database to glean some type of information which might offer a lead, only for that lead to end up in a cul-de-sac. Obviously, the Garda and other law enforcement agencies are accustomed to chasing leads that bring them down culs-de-sac, but given the potential scale of the data we will be retaining the potential for many...