Results 1-6 of 6 for garda reserve speaker:Ivana Bacik

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...such payments. This begs the question as to whether this is a common practice and if it extends to other public utility company. What does the Taoiseach and Government propose to do about it? Is An Garda Síochána involved? Will there be an investigation into this practice and will the Government set up a confidential reporting line so that those who may have been asked to...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Recruitment (18 Apr 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I am right. There is no age bar for the Garda Reserve. It sometimes carries out front-line Garda work but it does not have full Garda powers. I simply ask, in light of a direct request from a constituent, whether there have been updates since July 2011. Has the Minister given consideration to changing the upper age limit for entry? If the age limit was raised in 2004 by a significant...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Recruitment (18 Apr 2013)

Ivana Bacik: ...disappointed he cannot be present. I would like to know if consideration has been given to the circumstances where a change may be effected to the upper age limit of 35 years for recruitment to An Garda Síochána. I had not anticipated that the issue of recruitment to An Garda Síochána would be in the news today for other reasons. My specific purpose in asking this...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: ...not accept the Minister's contention that I am making a much more general point regarding arrests and so forth, far from it. I am stating this is an exception to the normal procedures under which gardaí form reasonable suspicions, arrest people, etc. That will already have been done in this instance in respect of persons who have been tried and acquitted. We are, therefore, dealing...

Seanad: Courts and Court Officers Bill 2009: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2009)

Ivana Bacik: ...amendment was tabled in the Dáil by Deputy Rabbitte. It seeks to limit the definition of a person who may be placed in temporary custody to a person who is lawfully in custody. I expressed a reservation about the drafting of this section on Second Stage. Section 6 refers to a prisoner who may be placed in the temporary custody of a member of the Garda Síochána. Section 5 gives...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (17 Jun 2009)

Ivana Bacik: .... The former Senator, Mary Robinson, expressed a great deal of concern about the operation of the Special Criminal Court in a well known pamphlet she prepared in the 1970s, in which she expressed reservations about the use of a non-jury court to try serious offences. More recently, the report of the expert group set up to review the Offences against the State Acts also expressed...