Results 1-20 of 826 for garda speaker:Pearse Doherty

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...while personal files contained fictitious accounts of conversations with fictitious persons who were presented as referees for staff. This is shocking. Tusla inspectors found there is clear evidence that Garda vetting documents had been altered. What is happening is scandalous. These revelations are really concerning. These are vulnerable children who are placed in the care of the...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: .... Let us deal with the facts here. The fact is that people have lost trust in RTÉ. People have lost trust in the TV licence. One in four people has refused to pay the TV licence and the Government believes they should be hauled before the courts, tying up court time and Garda resources. What we need to do is what the Government has failed to do for the last two and a half...

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

Pearse Doherty: ...allowed the banks to have a shared fraud database to tackle fraudsters and protect consumers. The banks have been demanding that the Government allow this so they can share live information with the Garda regarding fraud. It is bonkers that we do not have that, and that legislation has not come from the Department of Justice in that regard. Despite the fact that other jurisdictions have...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 1035. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to Gaeltacht regions; how many are assigned to each Garda station; how many are fluent in Irish; how many vacancies there are, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56856/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Given Fine Gael's disastrous handling of policing and justice and the reduction in the number of gardaí we have also seen in County Donegal, whether you look at the figures from 2002, 2012 or the past three years the numbers for our county have gone down. On top of that more than one in ten is out sick. These are either people who have been assaulted or injured in the course of their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that the Minister of State has put new information on the record. I submitted a parliamentary question to the Minister for Justice, which gave me the breakdown of every Garda station in the Gaeltacht regions, including County Donegal. It comprised more than 300 gardaí in County Donegal and suggested there were only nine with Gaelic as a native language or with proficiency. I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 244 and 245 of 1 June 2023, the number of reported cases made to An Garda Síochána with respect to financial fraud; the number of cases investigated with respect to same; the number of cases closed with conviction with respect to same; the value of money recovered with respect...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 244 and 245 of 1 June 2023, the number of reported cases made to An Garda Síochána with respect to authorised push payment fraud; the number of cases investigated with respect to same; the number of cases closed with conviction with respect to same; the value of money recovered...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...mental and physical health problems and we can never underestimate the impact this has on somebody and their family. I understand that significant changes have been made to Tusla and how the Garda approach such matters since these events. Have the appropriate actions been taken to ensure such a failing does not happen ever again? That is what William wants and that is why I am...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (6 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...not rectified for two years afterwards. It was two years before William found out, through a freedom of information request, that the fabricated confession by him was on his file. In 2014, the Garda contacted William to explain that during one of the rare occasions when William did get to see his daughter at the time, he had been accused of punching her in the stomach three times....

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

Pearse Doherty: .... Our shock speaks to those facts, but the suggestion that what happened was unforeseeable and that these clouds of destruction have not been gathering for some time is deeply dishonest. Mob violence and intimidation have blighted our communities and streets before. Two gardaí were brutally assaulted on Ballyfermot Road last November. Retailers have been warning of the rise in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Irregularities (23 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on recent statistics published by An Garda Síochána regarding the 77% increase in cases of investment fraud this year; the measures his Department is considering to respond to the rise in financial fraud and authorised push payment scams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51433/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I understand the Minister's points about the simplicity of the scheme at the minute, bikes being stolen, Garda reports and so on. I do not want to focus on that point; I want to focus on the second amendment from Deputy Nash in respect of school and college, particularly the latter part. The school part would be challenging because every child could avail of it in that case and it would be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What is the Government going to do to support the work of the Garda by increasing numbers and by moving members of the force off non-core duties?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Mar atá a fhios againn uilig sa Teach seo, chímid go bhfuil líon na ngardaí ag titim anois bliain i ndiaidh bliana agus ag an am céanna an méid nach bhfuil á dhéanamh ag an Rialtas i leith an ama seo. Chímid nach mbaintear na spriocanna earcaíochta atá ag an Rialtas amach bliain i ndiaidh...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I acknowledged the work the Garda does in our communities keeping people and our communities safe, and particularly in regard to the operation in the south during the week. However, Government needs to support that. The facts are very clear. Since this Government has been in office, every single year, there has been a reduction in the number of gardaí in this State. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ..., which is the investment scam. We have seen the stats that they have been increasing since 2019. We know that in some cases, people have lost more than €100,000 on them. We heard from the Garda, who gave an example of a civil servant who put their lump-sum pension payment into an investment scam. These can be very sophisticated. People who are well educated and aware can fall...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...and its role. It is scanning, looking, identifying and all the rest, but there could be a logical step, which would be to acknowledge that what I refer to is happening and so on. It is like the Garda stating that its job is to detect crime and all the rest, but it is also a garda’s job to go to the local supermarket if they thinks it is not safe and talk to the owner about having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: With the modules, the committee is trying to hear from all different groups - the Department of Justice, the Department of Finance, the Central Bank, the Garda, the banks and the payments. I think every single person and every one of those groups wants the same thing that we do. We do not have a strategy, which is the problem. The Government does not have an economic crime strategy. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...which comes from individual banks which have different strategies. This might be a question for the Central Bank. The three main lenders all have a different approach when reporting fraud to the Garda. Bank of Ireland reports everything. AIB only reports the bits it is liable for. That is crazy and does not make any sense whatsoever. I would ask the Central Bank, as regulator of...