Results 61-80 of 1,129 for garda speaker:Catherine Murphy

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?

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...there is a protest in Naas. It is very difficult to make people believe that temporary protection is the intended use because it is difficult to deal with misinformation. “Prime Time” asked the Garda about those protests and the response was that "the majority of public gatherings and persons attending them are peaceful and their intent is peaceful”. The Garda went...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: .... It now costs €84,000 a year to keep a prisoner in prison. I am comparing that with what is happening with the children's disability network teams. I have met the most extreme cases where the Garda has had to be called multiple times and where parents are so anxious to make sure their child does not end up in prison. These are the most dedicated of parents. They are being told...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: In relation to the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, there is a Garda case. I think it goes back to when it was a VEC and before it was an ETB.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...to this set of accounts, that other issues were identified. A review of a contracted employer in the training of a third-party provider was carried out in 2023. A matter has been referred to An Garda Síochána in relation to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Some of it was a carryover from how they were amalgamated and how the systems were not really talking to each other. An Garda Síochána is involved in two specific cases. Once the gardaí are involved are we precluded from looking at them in their totality or just from looking at those areas?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons, by county, currently waiting for their Garda vetting application to be processed. [8572/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has engaged with An Garda Síochána in respect of providing a blanket clearance for persons cleared by gardaí that can be used across multiple roles by the person; and if she will consider a time-limited certificate persons could present in lieu of separate Garda clearance requests. [8573/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons with two or more Garda vetting requests being processed in parallel. [8619/24]

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

Catherine Murphy: 407. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which, and by whom, she was first advised that the holster issued to a detective Garda (details supplied) was reported to be unfit for purpose by members of the Garda armoury technical staff, well before an incident in June 2020. [7555/24]

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

Catherine Murphy: 408. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she took following receipt of reports in respect of an incident and relating matters; and if she directed that An Garda Síochána take the steps to immediately rectify issues raised in the same reports. [7556/24]

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

Catherine Murphy: 431. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent by An Garda Síochána on purchasing the most modern evidential breath testing machines in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [7847/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I have met the most dedicated parents who cannot control a child who has a very significant disability. In one case the Garda have been called more than 20 times in the same year. The real-----

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...avoid penalty points through this being a sanction, and their being aware of it. This will hang on detection and enforcement, which will depend, in addition to the GoSafe vans, on resourcing of Garda units that follow this up. The vans only detect speed. Resourcing of police road units is the only way if there will be a multiplicity of offences prosecuted. The only way to do that will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reaffirm the official opening hours of Maynooth Garda station; and if there are plans to expand on same. [6526/24]

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...appreciate the point I am making. What impact will this reclassification of the coroner's status have on the culture of the organisation of the coroner's court and the way in which other bodies such as An Garda Síochána interact with it? How is the independence of the coroner preserved in view of the proposed changes? Is this likely to make its way into the main Bill? Is this...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...referred to the complexity of the investigation and suggested there was not great co-operation between OLAF and GSOC and he had no control over that. That is very disappointing. Then the five gardaí were seconded from 2017, four of them to 2020 and one to 2019, before the case was concluded. Why were they withdrawn before the case was concluded? It is up to the Garda Commissioner...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: As regards the Garda Commissioner and the deployment or secondment of gardaí, GSOC makes a request. Is that request usually acceded to? Is it always acceded to? Is there friction there? What is the relationship?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to the types of admissible complaints. One of them is discourtesy. Presumably, that is the kind of thing that goes directly back to the Garda. Does GSOC then follow up to see that there is training to address some of the issues, or is that just something that is left exclusively to the Garda itself?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: On protected disclosures again, obviously when a case is closed and findings are made, you have to go back then, for example, when some issues have to be picked up by the Garda itself. What follow-through is there with regard to changes that would be made internally within the Garda? I do not understand where the relationship would be then in how it is picked up following the closure of a...