Results 341-360 of 760 for garda speaker:Catherine Connolly

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...of information requests that were partially granted further to appeals and so on. It was particularly significant that the information on communications between the Health Service Executive and An Garda Síochána was refused on one occasion. While I am acutely conscious that an investigation is under way, the committee has a different role in this matter. Mr. O'Brien appeared...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA - Financial Statement 2015 (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...? Are alarm bells going off in that regard? We have been through this in the Dáil with different issues. An issue was confined to Donegal and then we realised it arose in Cavan with the Garda and so on. It is the same with universities. Nothing is confined to one area. It would be extraordinary for these issues just to be in Waterford. What review has the authority carried out...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...was the first thing, in May. If the Tánaiste listens - and I think she should - to the transcript of today's edition of "Morning Ireland", she will hear that the bureau wrote in July 2014 to tell the Garda that the numbers did not add up, and it did not order any more mouthpieces for 2015 and 2016. Is the Tánaiste really stating that her Department was not informed by the Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Naval Vessels (28 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...to ensure there are no nuclear weapons on board; the steps that have been taken to ensure no military exercises were or will be carried out in Irish waters; the consultation that took place with An Garda Síochána prior to the docking of the vessel; if this is the same warship that fired the first tomahawk cruise missiles into Baghdad almost 14 years ago on 20 March 2003 resulting...

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...of the word "interrogation" in this context. The Chairman may have been making a general comment but I have been factual and asked factual questions. My final question concerns contact with the Garda. Mr. O'Brien stated contact was made on 24 February 2015.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I cannot. It is very difficult. Perhaps it is because I am tired and we have been here since 9 a.m. I think the report was given to An Garda Síochána in July of the year in which it was finished. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have read through it. Mr. O'Brien can come back and tell me if I am wrong. Was An Garda Síochána given a copy in July 2012?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Brien has brought this up. He said the report was given to An Garda Síochána immediately or words to that effect-----

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It was completed in March 2012. I will ask my question through the Chair. How did it take from March 2012 to July 2012 to give it to the Garda? I am asking that question because Mr. O'Brien said it was given when it was completed. If I cannot pick up on that, we might as well pack up and go home.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have no difficulty with that, but the answer has been given. We have been told it was given to the Garda when it was completed. That is what we were told. We were told this report was given to the Garda when it was completed. It has been confirmed that this was in July. Now Mr. O'Brien is asking for more time. I am asking factual questions.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...if the Taoiseach is completely and utterly out of his depth or that he just sticks to prepared scripts. I do not know what the issue is. I have not asked the Taoiseach anything about a coroner or the Garda. I specifically asked him about publishing an interim report that his Minister has had since September last year. She stated in a reply to a parliamentary question that she will...

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...that deafness will not be a barrier to serving on a jury. I welcome the removal of archaic language, particularly in respect of people of unsound mind. I am pleased that the quota that applies to the Garda is being extended to the civilian side. While there are some positive provisions in the Bill, I have serious concerns about how it is progressing. My concerns are one thing, but the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (22 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 70. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the inquiry currently with the Garda national economic crime bureau on suspected VAT fraud in the poultry industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8844/17]

US Executive Order on Immigration: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...is a very dangerous thing to do and that regardless of who the person in question is, be it someone in politics, an ordinary person going to Shannon Airport or somebody in the health services, the Army or An Garda Síochána who has the courage to speak out, we will get them one way or another. If we do not see parallels between that type of society and the type that President...

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...that if questions were asked in this House and replied to, tribunals would not take so long and would not be as costly. These are six factual questions. Was there a meeting between the HSE and the Garda on the date in question? I seek a "Yes" or "No" answer. The same applies to the other practical questions. The Tánaiste should please confirm tonight which are the questions she...

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Did a meeting take place between An Garda Síochána-----

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...for the purchase of sex and he is criminalised for doing that, how dangerous does the Minister believe that makes it for the woman? She provides the service, gets her money and is then supposed to complain to the Garda. Can the Minister imagine what a vulnerable position that places her in to the person who is now being criminalised? I do not know how the Minister will get convictions...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Garda Síochána will ring the Army and ask it to send personnel the following day.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Does the Garda outline why?

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: ...positive provisions. I deplore, however, the utter failure by the Department to do what it should be doing. One area in which the Department does very well is in combatting fraud, having had the Garda and Revenue on the roads in Galway with regard to tax fraud, although it only consists of a minor fraction of the overall budget of over €19 billion. One of the main functions of...