Results 41-60 of 1,128 for garda speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Some information is in the public domain and this goes to the heart of how resources are deployed. For example, the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation was deployed. If I am not right about this, the Commissioner should feel free to correct it. There is supposed to be a review of suspensions every three months. It affects approximately 100 gardaí. We have seen...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: With the Garda strained numbers-wise, that will obviously create additional pressure. I want to move on to the figures for-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I would be happy to get a note on that as I have only a small amount of speaking time left. I will skip through a number of other issues. The non-Garda staff members of the force are important. I am told that a large number of these staff are seeking to transfer out. I believe the figure is some 1,600 out of 3,000. Would that be correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The number of people applying for jobs from other parts of the Civil Service does not give rise to the same movement as there is among the civilian staff of An Garda Síochána. Is that not the case? Is it an impediment?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: That is movement within the Garda.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I presume An Garda Síochána has put in place contingency plans because of the very large number of staff involved.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: At the same time, the Garda would want to hold onto people. It takes a long time for people to be trained. The Garda wants a degree of stability. That kind of movement would not fill me with confidence about viability in the context of stability within stations, for example.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I presume the Garda Commissioner has interaction with the Minister on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: On roads policing, in 2023 there were 104 fewer Garda policing the roads than there were in 2021. That is a substantial drop in numbers. Road deaths have increased and it is difficult to avoid making some sort of a correlation there. Will the Garda Commissioner provide us with more information on this? Is roads policing the poor relation? Does it get the kind of attention it requires?...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I acknowledge that much of that is very positive but it is also about the number of personnel. I will resubmit a parliamentary question to get up-to-date numbers. Has the Garda Commissioner brought the tax issue to the Tax Appeals Commission or did it go directly to Revenue?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...yet there is no matching correlation with the deployment of additional resources with that. Is that because an inadequate number of people are coming out of Templemore? Is that the only place the Garda gets the resources from? If that is the case, how does it ever catch up in areas like that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...that the issue of resources in Dublin is still an ongoing issue. However, if the new recruits go there, which is understandable because there was a particular problem, and I believe there still is, the Garda will never catch up in other areas. It is just very difficult to see how the Garda ever properly looks at resourcing areas that are growing in population.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...in and where they are coming from. There are places where people do not bother calling. They do not bother calling because they do not expect to get a service. That is not to be critical of the gardaí who are there. They can only do what they can do. I have a lot of engagement with the gardaí in my local area and I am very complimentary about them. There is just not enough...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...from social media in an area where there is a protest, such as at Crooksling, for example, where a building was set on fire? I think it was intended to be IPAS accommodation. Would the local Garda station be relied upon to have the resource itself or to use social media to track what is happening and what people are saying?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: An Garda Síochána paid €7 million but it hopes for a refund.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 887. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commission an independent review of the treatment of whistleblowers within the Irish Prison Service and An Garda Síochána; and if she will engage with persons that have gone through the process in the context of setting a terms of reference for the review. [12323/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 947. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of detective inspector posts filled within Kildare Garda division in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [12789/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 948. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that An Garda Síochána spent on replacement of public order unit equipment in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [12790/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 949. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that An Garda Síochána spent on hiring out external veterinary services in 2023 and to-date in 2024; and the amount paid to each provider in the years in question, in tabular form. [12791/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. We are certainly not going to talk about a particular agency or organisation with which there is Garda involvement. How many other organisations have been excluded as a consequence of this unit being set up and investigating that?