Results 101-120 of 506 for speaker:Joe Neville
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: No. I have had two bites of the cherry and if I cannot get it done there, there is a problem.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: We had two Ministers in last week who said exactly this, that we potentially need to save for a rainy day. It is interesting to hear the witness wants to pull the gears back even further. Is that what I heard?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Engagement with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jul 2025)
Joe Neville: Okay. What is the unemployment number at the moment?
- Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)
Joe Neville: I will focus on the issue at hand and what we are here to discuss. I came here to welcome the Bill in a changing world from the Government benches. As a country, we are familiar historically with terrorist activity; we have seen it on our own shores. We have seen waves of it throughout Europe and America over the recent years and especially in the 21st century. That terrorism has taken...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: I thank all the witnesses for coming in here today. I know they all have very busy schedules and I can see by the size of their briefing pack that a lot of work has gone into this. I thank them for coming. I am from a Garda family. My dad was a superintendent in the Garda and my brother is a Garda as well, for full disclosure. That is just to note that any questions I ask are coming...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: I know there are difficulties, be it people putting camera phones or cameras in the faces of gardaí. It creates a very different dynamic for gardaí, the view of them and their role in society than what they might have had in previous eras. That brings its own difficulties. I have a theme of questions I will try to run through quickly because we are obviously limited by time. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: Is that higher for those newer entrants over time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: That was my next question. Does the Commissioner believe the pension is good enough for those people?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: The Commissioner feels that is an issue because it is something I pick up on, more from colleagues and friends than anything else. On that basis, what more does he think we can do to recruit more gardaí?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: On the issue of retention, do the increments stop after 18 years? Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: Do we feel that is something there should be movement on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: On the topic of retention with senior management, was there a question mark around excess tax for senior management? Has that issue been resolved? This was where people were going for the next rank, potentially for the Commissioner's own role in the future, and it was not a good or sensible thing for them to do financially.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: It has not been resolved. It is still the same issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: We have to try to resolve that. That is interesting. I turn to the abatements for events. My dataset was the superintendent in north County Kildare. I know what it takes for Oxegen. I know what it took back in the day for the Ryder Cup. It was a busy area, which I know first hand. On the abatements and the different pricings, is any core group or type of event benefiting more than...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: Would it be one commercial entity or different promoters of events? Is it one entity dragging its heels?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: The Garda can pull-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: I will touch on a couple of issues. There is the €45 hourly charge. What is the rough cost? Is there an identified cost that An Garda has? Is €45 a rough cost for a garda for an hour? Is that a mix of a garda and a sergeant?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Joe Neville: I notice that the State has bought a new aircraft for the Garda. Is that correct?