Results 121-140 of 742 for garda speaker:Brendan Howlin

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jan 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...Minister for each but that might not be possible. We need to move fairly rapidly to that structural reform. I am interested in the recruitment campaign the Taoiseach mentioned for the new Garda Commissioner. What salary scale has been approved by Cabinet for the new Garda Commissioner to be recruited? I wrote to the Taoiseach in the past two weeks about the Kenneally case in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Membership (6 Dec 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...committee, has it given consideration to a matter I raised with the Taoiseach previously, namely, the need for a bespoke security agency which would separate security considerations from An Garda Síochána, leaving the Garda as a policing organisation and taking all the elements of security it currently does, together with military intelligence, the national cybersecurity agency...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...live on current earnings. The Tánaiste will tell the House that the matter is being examined by a public sector pay commission, but the Government was happy to act unilaterally in respect of the new Garda Commissioner and the highly paid academics we needed to attract. I believe genuinely that the Government would find consensus in the House for a bespoke pay review for the Defence...

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...justice adequately has seen a remarkable number of resignations in recent years, up until yesterday. We have seen all of them mentioned in the newspapers and they include the resignations of two Garda Commissioners, yet none of us can contribute to this debate with confidence that deep and lasting change has occurred as a result of all of this, dating back to the Morris review. I had...

Justice Issues: Statements (28 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Has the Minister informed the Garda of a potential breach of the criminal law?

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...making her aware of it, even in a general sense, she should have acted on it. Of course she should not have intervened with the commission of investigation, but surely she should have intervened with the Garda Commissioner. The Garda Síochána Act says that the Garda Commissioner is accountable to the Minister for the performance of the Commissioner's functions and those of An...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: The Garda Commissioner was represented at the O'Higgins commission by lawyers from the Chief State Solicitor's office and the Office of the Attorney General. The Tánaiste and the Taoiseach are both on record as stating that the Department was only aware of the legal strategy deployed against Maurice McCabe after the fact. Can the Tánaiste clarify whether there was a management...

Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: .... This good man could have been destroyed. The strategy was deployed behind closed doors from where it could not be revealed by Sergeant McCabe under threat of criminal sanction. At the same time the Garda Commissioner was instructing her lawyers to discredit Sergeant McCabe, she and the Tánaiste were publicly lauding him. The strategy was fundamentally dishonest. If the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...public service. Most of us anticipated that the Government would adopt a coherent structured approach to public sector pay. I expressed concern when a much hiked salary was rumoured for the next Garda Commissioner. I am even more concerned at reports that universities are now to be given freedom to pay academics up to €250,000. It appears the Government is willing to make...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...the Minister failed to make clear in his responses to those parliamentary questions that neither he nor his predecessor had knowledge or were aware of the legal strategy being pursued by the former Garda Commissioner against Maurice McCabe. That the Taoiseach was able to do so yesterday when asked in this House and subsequently by the media shows it was possible to answer these questions....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...any discussion on the staffing levels of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, or was it brought to the attention of the Taoiseach, in particular the fact that the most senior Garda position, that of detective inspector, has been vacant since September of last year? The issue was raised in the House and the national media in May this year, with promises that the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...that this was cartel-like behaviour, with each of the banks perpetrating the same fraud. It is simply not good enough to be told that the Central Bank is liaising with or had meetings with the Garda. The Tánaiste must tell the House what the Government intends to do to pursue any criminal activity and ensure that it is fully investigated. We have to see some personal...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...required to, as others have said; the public service broadcasters, public and private, at local and national level, who kept reminding people of the dangers that were evolving during the course of the day; the Garda; local authorities; ESB Networks crews; the Coast Guard; and RNLI volunteers – I saw the RNLI crew in my constituency take to the high seas when I was fearful of walking...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Brendan Howlin: There is no doubt that someone of skill, integrity and management capacity is required to lead An Garda Síochána. I hope the Tánaiste regards that all senior management roles should require that skill set. I am no wiser about the general approach and I am even more concerned because the Tánaiste said the Government will consider the issue in each case. Is it, therefore,...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Continuing the Tánaiste's theme of financial prudence and reasonableness, Government sources have indicated that a salary of up to €300,000 is being considered for the next Garda Commissioner. To say the least, this is well in excess of the current salary of €180,000 for the post which most people would consider a high one. I ask the Tánaiste to think seriously about...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (26 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 434. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost in 2017 of the deal done with the Garda Representative Association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36011/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ..., and social policy. The Taoiseach might reflect on that again. Policing reform is one of the most important issues facing our society. The implementation of the numerous recommendations of the Garda Inspectorate consumed a great deal of the time of the previous justice reform committee, of which I was a member. How does the Taoiseach envisage the implementation of the Garda...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...about whether other qualified candidates had their applications handled in an objective and transparent manner. It has at least appeared to link this appointment to the reopening of the Stepaside Garda station, which naturally raises further questions. That brings me to another point I want to make. The Minister, Deputy Ross, used to sit on the Opposition benches. Whether in this...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: It is true to say that, in his first report, Mr Justice Fennelly appeared to raise a quizzical eyebrow at those of us in government who reacted so swiftly and decisively when we were told that Garda telephone conversations were being recorded right across the country. It would have been bizarre not to have looked askance at such a development. To categorise as alarmist those who were...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Whether over the Garda Commissioner or this matter, Deputy O'Callaghan is sent off to play the part of the Grand Old Duke of York. He marches the Fianna Fáil Party up to the top of the hill and then he marches it back down again while Deputy Micheál Martin decides on which side of the issue he actually stands.