Results 1-9 of 9 for garda reserve speaker:Mick Wallace

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...in order that it can then contact these people but without any consent being given to the RSA by its customers to share these data. The assistant commissioner's email indicates that he had serious reservations about this. In response to questions I submitted to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, she claims that legal basis for this data sharing is provided in the...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...in Phoenix Park headquarters on several days last week? Does he think it is appropriate that the former Commissioner and the present Commissioner would have access to the whole apparatus of An Garda Síochána, a pleasure that will not be afforded to Sergeant Maurice McCabe and Superintendent David Taylor? She has set up a team, a serious team, including Detective...

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...the statistics, according to the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, less than 25% of women who suffer severely physically abuse report the incident to An Garda Síochána. Twenty-nine per cent of women who have suffered domestic abuse in some form or other report the incident to the Garda. A Cosc study shows 213,000 women have been...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...on the rental market. A number of Deputies have said no allegations have been made against NAMA itself. I am sorry, but I beg to differ. At present, 15 different investigations are being carried out by An Garda Síochána into the workings of NAMA, and this is just the reported stuff. Trust me, there is more coming down the tracks in terms of complaints about how NAMA has...

Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...of providing assistance in the control of a crisis situation. The idea of pumping resources into the creation of these special intervention units does not make sense when there are members of An Garda Síochána currently on incomes just above the minimum wage. On top of that, many new recruits are living in poverty due to high rents, low wages and cuts to their rent allowance....

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...functions, which is concerning. It leaves the Minister with the power to veto all policy and strategy plans, which kills any notion of the authority's independence. We have previously expressed reservations about the manner in which the chairman was appointed. There was not much transparency about the process. It would have been a good start for the policy authority if the appointment...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...in light of the recent U-turn in Government policy. It is regrettable that the newly discovered policy direction is reactionary rather than genuinely reforming. It has taken a stream of emerging Garda crises to pre-empt even minimal proposals recognising the need for reform in this regard. Reform proposals arising from such origins and prioritising political expediency tend to lack any...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...first brought forward their information, the Minister's first instinct was to rubbish them. We brought the information to the Chamber and he rubbished us. He set up a report and he had the Garda Commissioner rubbish that on 7 December 2012. It was a case of minimise, dismiss and rubbish all the way. We eventually got the internal reports and we issued an 18 page document to highlight...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...be off limits to disclosure, while the scope of records covered by exemptions is to be narrowed. We also see the inclusion of a number of previously exempt statutory bodies under the Bill such as the Garda Síochána and the Central Bank. However, woven into the fabric of the Bill are conditions that make a mockery of these welcome moves. Furthermore, even if these measures were...