Results 81-100 of 238 for garda speaker:Anne Rabbitte

Cyber Security for Children and Young Adults: Motion (14 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...to Children; Webwise; Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, Special Rapporteur on Child Protection; the Law Reform Commission; the special crime operations section and the national protective services bureau of An Garda Síochána; the Office of the eSafety Commissioner, to which I will refer shortly; and Facebook. Regrettably, representatives of Snapchat refused to appear before us but in...

Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...this. While all of this is going on, there are also accountability issues because a criminal act has been committed and lies and untruths were told. As the Minister said, it is important that An Garda Síochána is subject to the scoping exercise and the work undertaken with Tusla because we need to know how this happened and why people in positions of authority allowed it to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1051. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Galway County Council roads department applied to the Department of Justice and Equality or the local Garda division for a reduction in the speed limit on the N17 at a school (details supplied) due to health and safety concerns outlined by the board of management, parents and teaching staff; if so, when the application was...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (12 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 1138. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Garda division headquarters that are collaborating with Tusla in relation to dealing with cases of child abuse in view of the recommendations by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24541/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (29 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personnel in each Garda district by category as of 30 April 2015, 2016 and 2017, in tabular form. [23750/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...cannot understand why we have a problem at a higher level. Will somebody explain to me where the governance fell down on the basic issue where we have 40,000 children involved? Someone mentioned Garda vetting. To me, Garda vetting is what the general public needs to be reassured of the fundamentals of any form of governance where children are involved. It might not throw up everything...

Report on the Provision of Foster Care Services in Ireland: Motion (3 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...12 of the Child Care Act. For me he opened up a new way of understanding children in vulnerable circumstances. I sit on the joint policing committee, JPC, in Galway and must compliment the Garda division in that county. We now receive an audit and quarterly reports on the use of section 12 by the Galway division. In the first quarter of this year the provisions of section 12 were used...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (1 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...committee he said that mandatory reporting was going to increase Tusla's workload by 150%. Month on month we see HIQA reports where it has gone into various centres and we see the basic fundamentals on Garda vetting and so on are not up to scratch. We see also that there is a lack of engagement of social workers. I am not as fully convinced as the Minister, but she has the Department to...

Topical Issue Debate: Foster Care Provision (26 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...monthly, and I have read reports from areas such as Cavan, Monaghan, Cork and Dublin, where I can see major non-compliance. Some of the instances of non-compliance are very simple, for example, Garda vetting, which is a simple requirement that we need in order to protect children. I and my colleagues in Fianna Fáil believe that the possibility of an independent commission of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Retirements (24 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda retirements from each Garda station in County Galway in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18082/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Voluntary Sector Funding (19 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and processes to ensure that children are kept out of harm's way. I support and recognise the need to have strong child protection policies, including child protection officers and mandatory Garda vetting for all adults involved in the organisation. The Topical Issue matter was put down to understand the reason for the withdrawal of the funding and what processes are now in place to get...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (17 Apr 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in County Galway in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16561/18]

Digital Safety Commissioner Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...had wonderful speakers making presentations. Deputy Ó Laoghaire was a member of the committee for many months before Deputy Mitchell joined him. We had a lot of heavy lifting and engagement. We had An Garda Síochána in and it has done a phenomenal amount of work, as the Minister said. One of the things that came out of yesterday's committee meeting was how underresourced...

Other Questions: Departmental Reports (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...can social care workers access files? How can they communicate with other people to understand a family situation if it is a first-time referral and whether it is repeated? I do not believe the Garda currently has the resources, manpower or training to support the Tusla workers. In how many areas around the country has co-location been rolled out and what training is being provided to...

Other Questions: Departmental Reports (22 Feb 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's report related to repeated incidents at weekends, once a month or every three months concerning alcohol addiction and violence within the home. In such cases, members of An Garda Síochána felt they had no option but to go into homes as there was no out-of-hours service and the only recourse was to put children aged three, five, seven, ten or 15 years of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (17 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...of the Withholding of Information Act 2012; and if a mandated reporter could be open to potential prosecution should they fail to report their child protection concerns to both Tusla and An Garda Síochána. [2158/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: ...ICT system, so when we talk about Tusla social care workers or any other workers, they have no way. There is also a data protection issue because they are not currently sharing information with An Garda Síochána or with the GP service.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (7 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times section 12 of the Child Care Act 1991 was invoked in each of the years 2015 and 2016 and to date in 2017 by An Garda Síochána; the top three reasons for intervention annually according to the PULSE records for each division, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52418/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (7 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 131. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times section 12 of the Mental Health Act 2001 was invoked in each of the years 2015 and 2016 and to date in 2017 by An Garda Síochána, by division, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52420/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (5 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has given consideration to ring-fencing unspent funding from community CCTV to establishing Garda CCTV cameras on the bridge in Portumna, Banagher bridge and Shannon bridge and Ballina, County Tipperary, in view of the fact that these bridges are a route for organised crime (details supplied); and if he will make a...