Results 341-360 of 504 for garda speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...that the RSA relies on the relevant data for its work, I would have thought it would be paying quite close attention to the review. I would have expected there to be regular contact between the Garda and the Road Safety Authority, RSA, as to the progress of that review. If the RSA is receiving data that are in any way erroneous, it has serious implications for the authority's work.

Guerin Report: Statements (15 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...will no doubt prove to be the most challenging of ministerial roles within this Government. It would be hard to overstate the gravity of Mr. Guerin's findings on the handling of the evidence of Garda whistleblower, Sergeant Maurice McCabe. In sum, Mr. Guerin found that Garda management, the Minister for Justice and Equality and the officials in his Department all failed to properly...

Order of Business (15 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----about how there is a crisis in respect of public confidence in the administration of justice and in An Garda Síochána. Consequently, it is not acceptable that the House would not sit next week. Members have important and urgent matters to which they must attend. While there are elections, for instance, as the Tánaiste has been so fond of harking up the road in recent...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., I wish to step back a couple of weeks to revisit the account of events given by An Taoiseach in respect of his knowledge of the revelations of the practice of taping phone calls to and from Garda stations. Those matters are the subject of a separate commission of investigation led by Mr. Justice Fennelly. An Taoiseach has stated on the public record that he was first informed of the...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...from the Department of Justice and Equality were present at the meeting? Was Brian Purcell there? Could he tell us what was discussed at the meeting? Was the taping of phone calls to and from Garda stations discussed? Was the fate of the Garda Commissioner discussed? Might that explain the marked reluctance of Brian Purcell to deal with the matter before the Oireachtas Joint Committee...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...is to do with accountability and the application of this legislation by public bodies. One of the extraordinary things that happened, among a whole series of extraordinary things, on one occasion when the former Garda Commissioner presented before the Committee of Public Accounts was that he was asked by myself and others in a general sense to outline for us the number of disclosures to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think everybody is of one mind on this issue. I think this has been the case for the past number of months, although it was belated in respect of Sergeant McCabe and former Garda John Wilson. We can find ourselves in a situation in which GSOC needs to be strengthened. That is not within the gift of this committee - or, indeed, the Minister - so it places us in a slightly unusual position...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... The Minister has said one of the changes he made, in addition to removing the good faith notion, was related to the public interest notion. I notice that is not the case in respect of An Garda Síochána. Not alone may the investigation be made, the provision also provides for it to happen if it appears to it to be desirable in the public interest.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...forward this legislation in a culture and environment in which it is exceptional for people to come forward and to blow the whistle. The most recent high profile example of that is within the Garda Síochána. Let it be said that the Garda is by no means unique in this regard. One is not starting from a position of widespread practice or acceptance. In the public sector we have...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., Deputy Shatter. I am fairly sure that at times the Minister, Deputy Quinn, knew the number of the former Minister was up, that each crisis was a crisis too far and the damage being done to An Garda Síochána and public confidence was becoming serious.

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Minister, Deputy Shatter, of a catalogue of events, including the treatment of the whistleblowers, the controversy surrounding the bugging of GSOC, the bugging of telephone conversations to and from Garda stations, was the wrong position to take and that it was a bad call on the part of Government and, in particular, the Labour Party to support him? Does the Minister, Deputy Quinn,...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of debacles that have faced the policing and justice system in recent times; the appalling treatment of the whistleblowers; the appalling treatment of GSOC; the mishandling of the bugging controversy in Garda stations and the collapse in Garda morale and public confidence in the administration of justice. Why should he when the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Cabinet and Fine Gael and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sports Facilities Provision (30 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: 244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any GAA club is currently using the old Garda playing pitch in the Phoenix Park since the Garda GAA team moved to its new facility in Westmanstown; and if the Office of Public Works plans to make, or will consider making, the pitch in the Phoenix Park available to local GAA clubs. [19636/14]

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and Equality, Deputy Shatter, to be a reforming, progressive and just Minister despite the series of debacles over which he has presided. The issues around the administration of justice and An Garda Síochána have not gone away but that is not what I wish the Minister for Education and Skills to address. I call on the Minister to explain how it is that this reforming Minister...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the Minister is that the Opposition is not interested in dealing with the substantive issues, so let us set them out. There is the substantive issue of public confidence in senior management An Garda Síochána, as well as confidence of rank and file gardaí in their own senior management; shattered public confidence in protections for whistleblowers within an Garda...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Minister claimed that it was not his intention to mislead the House and I challenge that assertion because this House was misled. In a calculated and repeated fashion this House was told that the gardaí, in particular Sergeant Maurice McCabe, failed to co-operate with established Garda procedures. We were certainly misled had we been foolish enough to take the Minister on his word....

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: We all know that when Sergeant Maurice McCabe and the now retired garda, John Wilson, came forward within the Garda Síochána with serious concerns about the administration of the penalty points system, they were systematically and deliberately frustrated in their efforts. On paper, there was a system within the Garda Síochána through the confidential recipient for serving...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ..., both among members of the Cabinet and on the backbenches. The Minister has moved to minimise and trivialise the alleged bugging of the GSOC offices. He took precisely the same approach to the Garda whistleblowers. While that is his form, he does not and did not act alone because it is now clear that the Alan Shatter approach to the administration of justice is shared by members of the...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Party to the motion has been predictable, I would say depressingly predictable. They level an accusation at Members on this side of the Dáil that we set out to disrespect the men and women of An Garda Síochána. They level an accusation at those of us on this side of the House that we question the integrity of a member of the Judiciary. They make valiant efforts to dismiss...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in public view. It is astonishing that the Labour Party and Fine Gael are to be allowed to be complicit in Alan Shatter's activities, which are aimed at undermining whistleblowers within An Garda Síochána and burying any controversy arising in respect of malpractice by An Garda Síochána. In this particular instance, it is a most serious allegation of potential bugging...