Results 1-6 of 6 for garda reserve speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...of County Kerry is an enormous task, from Valentia Island to Tarbert and from Gneeveguilla and Scartaglin to Ventry. It is a large area and significant operation, and I thank rank and file gardaí as well as those in the senior ranks for the job they are doing with the resources they have been given. Past Ministers for Justice visited County Kerry and met local representatives,...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...but they are being diluted by increases in car insurance, house insurance and VHI etc. I welcome the increases but I would like more to be done. I recognise that additional people are being hired in An Garda Síochána and the Garda Reserve and I welcome it. Our gardaí get a lot of negative press and some people, including in this House, seem just to want to attack and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (4 Oct 2016)

Michael Healy-Rae: 82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to change the rules whereby members of the Garda Reserve cannot patrol without a Garda being with them (details supplied). [28126/16]

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Mar 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the Technical Group for allowing me some of their time to speak on the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012. Like some of my colleagues who have spoken, while I welcome the Bill, I have reservations that in certain aspects it does not go far enough. Through my work over many years, I have come across what I consider to be very genuine cases. For example, a person may have made...

Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...justification in closing them. Rather than closing the barracks, we should consider imaginative and creative ways of utilising them for further good purposes. One idea is the encouraging of the Reserve Defence Force to recruit more young people by utilising these barracks for training grounds and facilities. I also wish to condemn wholeheartedly any proposed gradual closure of barracks...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Apr 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the postmaster of a small rural post office. I very much welcome this debate and thank the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, for hosting it this evening because it is very important. I have reservations about the Bill, bearing in mind that the mail volume has fallen by a massive 16% since the start of 2009, with each 1% drop accounting for a loss of €5 million. As traditional...