Results 101-120 of 1,132 for justice speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sport and Recreational Development (15 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 1145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process by which a sporting organisation can apply for a licence to enable it to fundraise in all counties by means of an online raffle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31345/21]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...Stardust fire after years and years of campaigning by the families. I commend those families who have never let this issue go. A commitment was made that no family would be prevented from accessing justice, but that is not the case with many of them now being denied legal aid. My colleague, Senator Lynn Boylan, spoke about this matter in the Seanad as recently as yesterday. She said...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...that should be done in this case so that all of the families who have been impacted will not have to go through the types of obstacles and hurdles I have outlined. Each of them must now have access to justice in what has been agreed and long and hard fought for, which was an inquest into the Stardust incident.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Injury Claims (24 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 1242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Circuit Court personal injury proceedings initiated in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14801/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Injury Claims (24 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 1243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Circuit Court personal injury proceedings which were initiated in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by county in tabular form; the locations in which cases have yet to be determined and are active; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14802/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Injury Claims (24 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 1244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Circuit Court civil proceedings initiated in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14803/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Injury Claims (24 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 1245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Circuit Court civil proceedings which were initiated in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by county in tabular form; the locations in which cases have yet to be determined and are active; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14804/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...áin a dhéanamh agus na coinní le seandaoine a chur ar ceal. Níl seo maith go leor. We are at a crucial point in the suppression of Covid-19 and the roll-out of the vaccine, but the Government is dropping the ball on both fronts and letting people down. Figures released yesterday by the Department of Justice show that international travel is increasing. That is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insurance Fraud (17 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 630. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents of fraudulent insurance claims reported by the insurance industry to An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021 by the insurance industry. [8932/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...due to the failures associated with the CervicalCheck scandal. We know that promise has been broken time and time again and it needs to come to an end. No woman should be forced to go to court to seek justice and still not even have an apology from the State or the HSE. I ask the Tánaiste to address this. The Tánaiste said the vaccine roll-out will be slower for those aged...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (13 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 726. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional funding will be made available to Garda recruits who have had their training period extended until 31 January 2021 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1479/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I echo all the Ceann Comhairle's comments in relation to the staff and the good wishes. I want to return to the appointment of Mr. Justice Séamus Woulfe. The revelations this morning in The Irish Timesare, indeed, shocking. They are shocking for this reason. The Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, informed us in the Dáil on 26 November that she got the memorandum on 6 July....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding is available for a domestic violence support group (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42757/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probate Applications (8 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to delays in processing applications in the Probate Office; her plans to increase staff capacity to deal with any backlog in the office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41463/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...might clarify to the House the position in respect of the switching of ministerial questions and the appropriateness of doing that without consultation with Members of the Opposition. We are hearing that the Minister for Justice has now pushed back her questions to December. Again, this is another way in which the Government is trying to refuse and deny the Opposition from raising...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: There are no questions on justice. This is all the more reason the Minister for Justice needs to come here to answer questions.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Government has pushed back questions to the Minister for Justice. It is ridiculous. This is a serious matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I have a number of questions for the Tánaiste concerning the appointment of the former Attorney General, Mr. Justice Séamus Woulfe, to the Supreme Court. The Government has so far adopted an approach of refusing to answer questions about any of this but this is a really important matter. It is not trivial. It is a job that carries with it a salary in excess of €220,000,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste talks about the separation of powers. He was Taoiseach. He facilitated the then Minister for Justice and Equality coming here three years ago to answer questions on the process, not in Private Members' time. That is what the Opposition and the leader of my party are looking for. We asked the Tánaiste specific questions, but he did not answer one of them. When did...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister for Justice went on national radio yesterday to bat in the Tánaiste's defence and said there had been engagement with NAGP throughout these negotiations. The Tánaiste is telling me that the Department of Health said there was no engagement. That is the problem. We have asked for these documents which are all covered by freedom of information to be released in order...