Results 1-20 of 64 for garda speaker:Verona Murphy

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: In recent years there has been a significant rise in cocaine consumption, with current reports from gardaí and drugs councillors stating that drugs are available in every rural village and town in Ireland. The cliché of cocaine as the drug of choice for the wealthy, young elite is long out of date. It has evolved in recent years and is now being used regularly by all classes...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: This is really important. There are 80% fewer drug searches done because An Garda Síochána has to fill in 24 points of information.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: This is about the fifth time I have brought this issue up. I am back to the passport and ID issue of members of the Garda identifying that they sign the passport application. I am back to the parent of a first-time applicant. The Passport Office is unable to get in touch with the garda who signed the application. The office has contacted the same Garda station four times. Surely at this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: What is the security dimension? Why would they contact a garda?

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...Butler, in respect of the number of GPs who will qualify in the next three years. There is no guarantee those GPs will enter our system. We have heard similar figures quoted with respect to An Garda Síochána and our teachers but we do not seem to be able to recruit them when the time comes. I ask for some scheme or incentive to be put in place such as the one that exists in...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: Does GSOC have any complaints mechanism to deal with the Policing Authority or is it just An Garda Síochána? Does GSOC not involve itself with the Policing Authority? If a complaint were made, for instance, against a Commissioner or an assistant commissioner, GSOC does not deals with it and, therefore, the maladministration, as some would refer to it, of the Dublin riots would not...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...was significant that 50% of the complaints were deemed to be inadmissible. Are there repercussions for complainants who make frivolous or vexatious complaints, because there certainly are for the Garda member? Whether it is found to be true or otherwise, it is a stressful time for the Garda member. Is there any action taken by GSOC with regard to such complaints?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: Six Garda members made untruths in a complaint.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: As a general comment, does Mr. Whelan find the Garda co-operate with GSOC? If it does not, it would impact the timeline obviously, but is it the case that it does or does not co-operate?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: It is on the lower end of the scale. An incident came to my attention where a complaint was passed from GSOC to be investigated by the local Garda, where the garda who was put forward was not even mentioned in the complaint. To me, that is something that not only would hold up things but it is a complete mix up if a garda is being investigated who has not even been mentioned by the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...previously. We have a disconnect with the Passport Office. Whether it is the Oireachtas helpline or the helpline for people who ring up, the information is different. People then go to the Garda station. The gardaí are doing their best to keep the country in law and order but some of them do not understand that a passport photograph must be signed with the application number on...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...were advised to take action. The Attorney General said ample legal measures are in place under existing legislation and pointed to section 17 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act, under which An Garda Síochána can investigate these criminals. An Bord Pleanála were to conduct a review of all the objections submitted by these criminal brothers, John and Micheál...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: .... When I talk to new recruits, their biggest issue is that they are coming out of the college trained but have not been stationed anywhere. A week out from having to become a member of An Garda Síochána on the streets, they do not know where they are going to live or whether they will get accommodation.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: There is also a huge issue with retention and the major loss when members of An Garda Síochána decide they need to leave the force. I sincerely hope that we are doing exit interviews and that we take the information as feedback and do something with it. All of their knowledge, training and expertise goes with them and it takes years to gain that experience as a new recruit. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she acknowledges the current retention crisis facing An Garda Síochána; what measures her Department is taking to address same; what recommendations her Department has made to An Garda Síochána to increase recruitment to the Garda force; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55420/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Verona Murphy: I ask the Minister to acknowledge the current retention crisis facing An Garda Síochána and to outline the measures her Department is taking to address same. What recommendations has the Department made to An Garda Síochána to increase recruitment to the force? What I am really asking is that the Minister acknowledge the current retention crisis facing An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 Nov 2023)

Verona Murphy: 321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality on what date the next intake of Garda recruits is expected to pass out/attest; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49419/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...the 30,000 that we are trying to achieve and will probably miss anyway? There is no Ardnacrusha-style idea from anybody in this Government. It is telling us that it will fund 1,000 additional gardaí and 2,000 additional staff to enhance the capacity across acute and social care services. We need more nurses and more teachers. We need more of everything, but the real issue is that...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...month to have that child in residential care. To be honest it probably need never have come to that if the supports had been put in place. I was really aghast. The section 12 order was issued with An Garda Síochána. The child was brought to the hospital and spent three days in hospital under 24-hour supervision. The HSE was able to put in round-the-clock care for the child...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...and the Department. It was endorsed and signed off by the then Minister, Deputy Flanagan. We now see, five years later, how we are paying the price for that. Strike one: we do not need 800 new gardaí. This time last year, Drew Harris said we could not reintroduce the old working time roster, namely, the Westmanstown roster, because we did not have the resources. It just was not...