Results 6,641-6,660 of 7,777 for speaker:Joe Costello

Road Traffic Offences. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: That is irrelevant.

Road Traffic Offences. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: Is the Minister saying the reason the gardaí refused to provide the technical and operational data on the intoxilyser that were requested was that the Director of Public Prosecutions was consulted and said they should not be provided? Is he saying someone else told the gardaí not to provide the data or did they decide not to provide them themselves? Where does the buck stop? The Minister...

Road Traffic Offences. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: Why did the gardaí refuse?

Road Traffic Offences. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: So the DPP instructed the gardaí.

Road Traffic Offences. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: Did the DPP make the decision?

Road Traffic Offences. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: Did the Minister not check? A question was asked in this House.

Prison Building Programme. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: I thank the Minister for his reply. It contains a great deal of information, which I look forward to reading in detail. This is a stand-alone project and it qualifies as a PPP in regard to its appraisal. The Minister stated the design, build and maintenance of the project would be undertaken by a private company. Does he propose that such a company will also run the campus? Does he propose to...

Prison Building Programme. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: The Minister is almost a socialist.

Prison Building Programme. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: What is €100 million after all?

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of murders recorded to date in 2005 in which firearms were used; the number of these which are believed by the Garda Síochána to be related to the operation of criminal gangs; if he shares the views of the public regarding the huge increase in such killings; his views on whether the operation of these gangs...

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: Half of these were——

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: It is not what the Minister is doing it is what he talks about doing.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: I would like to get in.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: It is difficult to get in when the Minister is in full flight. He asked us to consider his track record. We will certainly do that. The 2,000 gardaí have not arrived and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, who holds the purse strings, stated they will not arrive until 2008. We will consider the Minister's track record on gangland killings, which is the focus of this question. Only 12...

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: The Minister has always had our support.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: That is not the answer.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: The Labour Party never held the Ministry with responsibility for justice.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: If we had had that Ministry, it would be different.

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: What about the communications network? How can gardaí mount surveillance——

Gangland Killings. (23 Nov 2005)

Joe Costello: I have not asked any supplementary questions so far. On a different issue from those raised so far, the question of telecommunications and secure communications for the Garda, we have been promised the digital Tetra system. We still operate on the analogue system. Proper surveillance cannot be mounted without a secure system. The Garda Síochána does not have that. Many gardaí still use...