Results 1-20 of 81 for garda speaker:Matt Carthy

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the new Garda roster resulting in members who witness passport applications being unavailable over multiple subsequent days and that this is leading to applicants being obliged to submit new witness forms and unduly delaying the processing of applications; his proposals to address the matter; and if he will make a...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...in this House and across official Ireland, collusion was presented as republican propaganda and people were given no succour. Anybody who dared to suggest it was likely to get a visit from the Garda special branch. That was part of the core aim of successive Governments. After Dublin and Monaghan, other bombings in Dublin, the bombing of Castleblayney, the bombing of Belturbet, the...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...and resource that was not available to loyalist gangs without the direct support of British state agents. Any reasonable person would have expected both the Irish and British Governments and An Garda Síochána to move swiftly to apprehend the perpetrators and assert the full facts, but that did not happen. In debates in this House immediately after the bombings, speakers seemed...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...suck it up when their last amenity, whether it be the local hotel or another business, is removed from use without a single thought for the impact. I have seen people in rural communities that have lost their local Garda station and post office and where people cannot get a GP appointment then wake up to learn that their last amenity, the local hotel, has been turned into an international...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fiscal Data (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...settlements. It is bizarre to suggest, therefore, that we will not target these companies we know are engaged in or profiting from illegal activities just because there may be others. If the Garda were to take such an approach and say it would not investigate a crime just because somebody else might be getting away with the same crime, I think we would all agree that was ludicrous....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Nuclear Plants (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: 1032. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the visit by members of An Garda Síochána to the Sellafield nuclear facility in 2004; their findings; if the gardaí were invited or sought access in that instance; if there have been subsequent visits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56808/23]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...city, just as for months before that, she had told us that Dublin city centre was safe. No amount of mud-slinging by the Government will take away from the facts of its failure. There are fewer gardaí on our streets and fewer Garda stations in our communities than there were when Fine Gael came to power 12 year ago.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: That is no longer the case. The population has increased and our towns have grown. In response, Fine Gael has closed Garda stations and reduced Garda numbers. Its members do not like to hear it but those are the facts. It cannot continue. We called on the Minister to resign; she did not do so. We cannot continue with a Minister for Justice who has allowed our communities to feel...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Dec 2023)

Matt Carthy: 391. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda and the stations that were operational in each Garda station in County Monaghan for each year 2009-2023 inclusive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53483/23]

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...prayers are with those who remain in hospital. The events at the school last Thursday were horrendous. I commend those who came to the scene and demobilised the attacker, the emergency services, na gardaí, the fire service and the ambulance crews who were first on the scene. Their collective efforts undoubtedly saved lives. Above all else, we hope that those who were injured and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Matt Carthy: Dublin is clearly underpoliced. There are not enough gardaí in our capital city and I do not think anyone disputes that after last Thursday. However, it needs to be said that the rest of the State is also underpoliced. In County Monaghan, I regularly hear from people in each of our towns and villages who tell me they feel unsafe walking up their main street for the first time in their...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...societal cost. That cost is deeply felt within our public services. It is felt in the schools that cannot employ the teachers they need, the hospitals that cannot employ the healthcare staff they need, Garda stations, Defence Forces' barracks and social care centres, none of which can employ the numbers they need because those who are qualified and who want to fill those roles cannot...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...conveyed to him or her. Mr. Gridziuska was in breach of multiple bail conditions of multiple courts. A short period before Shane was killed, Mr. Gridziuska was actually stopped by members of the Garda. He was the passenger in the car in which he was travelling. That car was unroadworthy. None of the individuals in the car was adequately insured to drive it and they were well known to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Security Clearance (11 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...for personal security clearance received from those not employed by a Government Department or body under the aegis of a Government Department; the number of which were subsequently directed to an Garda Síochána in each of the years 2019 to date; the average processing time, by category, academic, enterprise, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44364/23]

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...concerns that issues outside this State that pertain to outside of the country, particularly on overseas missions, will still be subject to investigation, essentially, by the Defence Forces rather than An Garda Síochána. This Bill will ensure than anything inside the State will be under the jurisdiction of An Garda, and that is correct. However, there are serious questions to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...for personal security clearance received from those not employed by a Government Department or body under the aegis of a Government Department; the number of which were subsequently directed to An Garda Síochána via the Department of Justice in each of the years 2019 to date, in tabular form, by category (academic, enterprise); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42678/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Current Issues Facing Members of the Defence Forces: Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: May I add to that? The Garda might be in a better position than RACO's members but we are dealing with a day on which there is industrial action. It is five years since the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland published its report. Part of the difficulty we see today is related to the failure to implement some of its recommended measures. It is now 18 months since the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commissions of Inquiry (27 Sep 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...time for a full debate in this House on the scoping exercise report that has been laid before us. That is the least the Dáil deserves. Second, she can confirm whether she knows Zigimantas Gridziuska was a Garda informer. If she does not know that, she cannot say hand on heart that the full facts have been established by the scoping exercise. She could commit this morning that if...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commissions of Inquiry (27 Sep 2023)

Matt Carthy: Was Zigimantas Gridziuska a Garda informer?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commissions of Inquiry (27 Sep 2023)

Matt Carthy: ...been in prison in light of multiple breaches of multiple bail conditions set by multiple courts. Every single person who understands these matters to whom to I have spoken privately, including many members of An Garda Síochána, have arrived at the same theory. They believe that Mr. Gridziuska must have been a Garda informer. The O'Farrell family has established that there...