Results 81-100 of 374 for garda speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...evidence, make findings of fact into the systemic issues that caused these situations and, importantly, they must be time limited. I will come to that point later. It is also important that live Garda investigations should be allowed to run concurrently. All abusers and people who were complicit in cover ups should be held to account to the full extent of the law and punished for their...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...far and is an infringement on privacy. The ICCL has stated that possessing material in your home without the clear intention of ever making it public should not be an offence. It is an incredible idea that gardaí could be going into people's homes to search them on that basis. I agree with a previous speaker that this enters into the realm of thought policing. The Minister tells...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill and the UK Government's Plans around the Human Rights Act: Amnesty International UK (10 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...to Ms Teggart. Where are the Jon Boutcher inquiries? I remember about a year ago there was a blockage. Mr. Boutcher's inquiries were looking for documents from the southern State and the Garda but there was some legislation in place at the time which stopped that. The Government had promised that it would change that legislation to free up a pathway for those documents to be handed...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 839. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has ever received reports on crime detection rates from An Garda Síochána; and, if so, if she will provide the details of same. [54252/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda recruits who have actually started training in Templemore in each month for the past five years; the strength of the Garda Reserve for each of the past ten years and the number of gardaí who have retired for each of the past ten years. [53662/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú found out that 400 gardaí have resigned in recent years, and the number of gardaí resigning from the Garda force is increasing year on year. There was meant to be an intake of 200 recruits into Templemore this month but not even 50 applications were received, and the class was scrapped. Ireland has one of the lowest numbers of police per capita in the European Union and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...taken out of it at a time where it was causing a major challenge to the Government of the day, and that now nobody is going to be held to account. My view is that the case should be with the Garda. There needs to be a situation where people are held to account for the actions that they have taken. What happened in Siteserv was extraordinary. There was a write-down of €119...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated total cost of Garda drivers being provided to Ministers; and the number of gardaí who will be employed in this service. [49789/22]

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...on a house having to be occupied less than 30 days a year. What are people going to do? Are they going to take selfies in those homes for 31 days of the year? Are they going to go to the local Garda station to sign on for 31 days of the year? It is an incredible situation. I heard two Fine Gael Deputies talk about how it is absolutely wrong that there are so many vacant homes in this...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...home tax is very vague and nebulous. I was looking at its regulations. The house has to be occupied for fewer than 30 days a year. What do people do? Do they take selfies in the home for 31 days? Do they sign into the local Garda station? Are we going to be dealing with another property tax that is going to fall by the wayside? The residential zoned land tax, again, is mostly...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 375. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí per capita in each county in the State; and if she will ensure that she facilitates the increase of Garda resources into counties that have had the largest increase in population as a result of the latest Census data. [46687/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 376. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the ten largest towns in the State without a Garda station; and the ten largest towns in the State without a full-time Garda station. [46688/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 377. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the detection rates for each crime area or Garda division for each of the past five years. [46689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 379. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of operational members in An Garda Síochána who have an automatic number-plate recognition device; and the proportion that this number is of all Gardaí who require the device. [46691/22]

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the other 16 foster children who lived in the same home with Alice and her siblings were interviewed. This question has not been answered and it is a key question that has to be answered, either by gardaí or social workers. It has been some time since I raised the questions and I am incredibly frustrated that they have not been answered. I would also like to know what happens...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...were made in Villagethat offers of compensation were made to traders at these meetings on condition they would support Hammerson's planning applications. All I am asking is that the Department and the Garda investigate what happened to the house of O'Rahilly and the Moore Street battlefield site. Aontú demands that the Government and the Garda investigate this.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...to get accountability. If there is no accountability, then there will be no change. If there are no consequences, then it will be repeated again in the State administration in the future. I have written to the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau, GNECB, requesting that it would investigate the authors of the misleading and incomplete information. I believe that An Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...to have on this is bigger than AIB. Many people are living more isolated lifestyles than even before. I am talking about people who no longer have a post office or pub to go to and who have no Garda station or bank in their village any more. These people are not talking to people from one day to the next. There is also a significant increase in the incidence of mental health issues in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...removed from the home when the other child confirmed the abuse. This was an incredible failing on behalf of the State. I asked Tusla how many times it reported suspected child abuse to the Garda over the past decade. It told me it has no statistics in relation to this. I asked for statistics on the number of children who allege that they were sexually or physically abused while in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Diplomatic Representation (23 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Beidh mé cúramach. I just want to clarify what I said. The Garda has sent the Tánaiste's file to the DPP, and there may be a case. That is clear and factual. My concern about this is that I have submitted a great many questions to the Minister in regard to the appointment. My worry about the appointment is that it may be the case that the individual may need to give...