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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts 2013
Vote 13 - OPW
Chapter 4 - Accounting for OPW Agency Services (26 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is there an ongoing cost to maintaining a closed Garda station which has a mast at the location?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts 2013
Vote 13 - OPW
Chapter 4 - Accounting for OPW Agency Services (26 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: When the Department of Justice and Equality or the Garda authorities were doing up the list of Garda stations to be closed, was the location of masts taken into consideration?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts 2013
Vote 13 - OPW
Chapter 4 - Accounting for OPW Agency Services (26 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: How many Garda stations that were closed are still in the hands of the OPW?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (3 Feb 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: 376. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the recent Garda recruitment campaign, the current position of bands 1, 2 and 3, which were formed in the recruitment process; in view of the fact that candidates who have been chosen for recruitment have come from band 1, when it is envisaged that candidates in band 2 will be informed they will progress to band 1; and if she will...

Road Traffic (No.2) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (18 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...to be reviewed. I have asked the Chairman of the transport committee to engage with the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and his colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Fitzgerald, an Garda Síochána, the operators of GoSafe and the legal practitioners about what is happening in our courts and how we can improve the system. I acknowledge the issues that have arisen...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if members of An Garda Síochána have to be Garda vetted in order to be deemed suitable to work with children and other vulnerable persons; if so, if she will provide details in tabular form by division of the numbers of members of An Garda Síochána who are not yet Garda vetted. [47577/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...of correspondence between his Department and the Departments of Education and Skills and Health on the number of people working with children and employed by those Departments who have yet to be Garda vetted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47575/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Garda Vetting of Personnel (11 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details in tabular form by county of the numbers of teachers, special needs assistants and support staff who have not been Garda vetted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47576/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...since 2009 have been thrown out. I do not know how this situation can be resolved. At a meeting of the transport committee this morning my proposal was accepted that both Departments as well the Garda Síochána and legal practitioners should come to the committee to discuss what is a fundamental issue of road safety and also an issue to do with the fairness of the law. For...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...and the GoSafe vans. The law needs to be seen to be impartial and blind to interference, be that from loopholes that one could drive a lorry through or interference from members of the Garda Síochána, as was reported by whistleblowers. The law must be seen to be fair. Ultimately we must ensure the roads are safer and this system is an attempt to change people's behaviours....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System (10 Dec 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos 494 of 26 November, 2013 and No. 558 of 18 February 2014 if the Garda authorities have now finalised a reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47464/14]

Human Rights Budgeting: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...to 21% which would increase the total to 62%. One must then add on 13% for the universal social charge, USC, and PRSI, coming to a total of approximately 15% and one soon reaches 75% for the so-called wealthy in society. According to Sinn Féin, a garda married to a teacher would fall into that category. Sinn Féin would seek to take 75 cent in the euro from them. If one was...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...I go back to the central point in regard to the current system of allocating resources while welcoming the fact capital has been made available and the Minister and her predecessor have recommenced Garda recruitment, which had not happened for eight years and which needs to be acknowledged. Several districts around the country were amalgamated and there was an understanding at the time in...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue which is topical in the context of the reforms which the Minister for Justice and Equality is seeking to introduce in the structure and management of An Garda Síochána. I believe the rank and file members of An Garda Síochána do exemplary work. I raise this issue on the basis of the many changes introduced by way of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (12 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: No, I was not. Some members of the media might accuse me of cronyism if I did not declare that we owned the property next door to the Garda Station. That being said, there is a dire need for investment in the property concerned. I have discussed this issue with the Minister of State in the Office of Public Works. As I said earlier, we need to examine new ways of approaching this issue. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Safety Authority: Chairperson Designate (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: The point is that the Garda is being challenged and the RSA should have a naming and shaming role with regard to local authorities which are failing in their duties. We know some of them. One can get lost on some roads in this country not for the want of signs but because of the size of potholes. Deputy McEntee's county would be an example of somewhere with a serious problem in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Safety Authority: Chairperson Designate (11 Nov 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...us, as this should not be a one-way street. With the issues of road safety and potential carnage, nobody should be safe from criticism, including the Government, local authorities and the Garda.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (9 Oct 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 87. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the planned works to be carried out at Newcastle West Garda station in County Limerick following the amalgamation of the Newcastle West and Askeaton districts; when it is likely that these works will be carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38649/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Refurbishment (7 Oct 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the planned works to be carried out at a Garda station (details supplied) in County Limerick following the amalgamation of the Newcastle West and Askeaton districts; when is it likely that these works will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38757/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Refurbishment (7 Oct 2014)

Patrick O'Donovan: 206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of requests from the Department of Justice and Equality and-or An Garda Síochána for improvements to be made to the accommodation available at Newcastle West Garda station, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37898/14]