Results 21-40 of 549 for speaker:Grace Boland
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: I am very supportive of the work of An Garda Síochána. Its representatives' appearance at this committee is really important in ensuring the trust and confidence of the public in the fantastic work An Garda Síochána does. As the Deputy highlighted, we will want to go through a couple of points with the witnesses. It is important to ensure that issues, including those...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Is there funding going into training more gardaí to deal with this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Considering it is one of the top two issues, should every garda be trained in this area?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: I am conscious of my time. I will quickly get through a couple of more questions. Regarding recruitment, the target is to recruit more than 5,000 gardaí over the next five years, which is very much welcome. There is a senior vacancy in the area I represent. The superintendent position has not been filled for many months. Two gardaí are acting up. Given the demographics of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: When does Mr. Harris expect that to happen? It goes to the heart of retention and recruitment as well. We need to make sure that these positions are being filled to encourage recruitment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Is that something that the Minister for justice is aware of?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: In the couple of the minutes of left, I will also turn to chapter 6. In reading it, it feels like work needs to be done here on due diligence, including recording the rationale for the various different decisions as to why some events were fully abated and some were not. As the Comptroller and Auditor General has highlighted, it is important for transparency. Some of these are run by...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Will we see these inconsistencies repeated in the 2024 accounts, but hopefully not from 2025 onwards?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: The rationale has been documented-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: I thank the witnesses for their time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: I agree with that. Let me refer to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I represent Dublin Fingal West, which includes the towns of Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush and Lusk, the rural villages and the area all the way down as far as north Santry and a little bit of north Finglas. It is a very mixed area. For a Dublin constituency, it is very different in that it is rural, urban and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (26 Jun 2025)
Grace Boland: 49. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the efforts to reform the oral healthcare, including the new national oral health policy, Smile and Sláinte; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34600/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (26 Jun 2025)
Grace Boland: 90. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on progress towards the digitalisation of the health service overall; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34601/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2025)
Grace Boland: 301. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the locations around the country where community health organisations are providing specific services for adults with an autistic diagnosis; the staffing cohort at each location; the number of patients benefitting from the services at each location, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35083/25]
- Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: I thank the Minister. It is very good to see someone from north County Dublin in the room. Obviously, the Minister appreciates the public transport concerns in the north of the county. The briefing was really helpful. This is the first time I have seen something like this in committee and it was really good to actually see it. I am very focused on making sure that we have enough funding...
- Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Is the Minister saying they do not appear here until they are commissioned notwithstanding that we have taken delivery already?
- Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: We have them but they are not active.
- Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: How many more are coming?
- Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Are they on time for delivery?
- Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: We should see the roll-out of that in quarter 4 of 2026.