Results 1-20 of 1,772 for garda speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (23 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which she continues to provide adequate resources to enable An Garda Síochána to adequately police organised crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17776/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (23 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of women currently serving in An Garda Síochána; the extent to which these numbers have fluctuated in the past eight years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18054/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (23 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current total strength of An Garda Síochána, by gender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18059/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which funding for state-of-the-art technology is currently available or being made available to An Garda Síochána to assist in the detection and prosecution of all forms of crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8597/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which members of An Garda Síochána injured or traumatised in the course of their duty have access to appropriate counselling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8603/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which adequate resources continue to be made available to An Garda Síochána to combat organised crime; whether sufficient intelligence, technology or other resources is adequate to make serious inroads on the structures operated by the criminal gangs; whether adequate powers exist to deal adequately...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the Garda strength in each Garda station throughout Kildare continues to be increased, with particular reference to the optimum requirements in each station; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55443/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 592. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of women members of An Garda Síochána, at all ranks, at present; the degree to which, if any, the numbers have fluctuated over the past ten years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55449/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant promotional positions to be filled at all levels throughout An Garda Síochána at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55450/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what action is being taken or can be taken to address the issue of threats and intimidation against individual members of An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55452/23]

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

Bernard Durkan: In the aftermath of the situation that unveiled itself in the inner city in recent times, it falls upon us all in this House to put our support behind the Minister and behind the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána to ensure law and order remain central facets of our lives. If they do not, then turmoil follows. When Kristallnacht was in hand in the 1930s in central Europe the hard...

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

Bernard Durkan: ...to the call of an emergency like that. In this House we expect a response of a similar nature. It disappointingly does not always come. We have to support the Minister. We have to support the Garda Commissioner, and we have to support law and order. It is a challenge to us, and to every Member of this House. Anybody who stands aloof, aloft and outside it and condemns from within the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...is now okay to become involved in drug taking or drug peddling, and all that goes with it, is unhelpful. There are those who suggest this will remove the illegal element and give more time to the Garda Síochána for other matters. I do not believe this is the case at all. Previously in this committee we have had long submissions from those for and against. It was brought to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (14 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied), who recently received and submitted information required regarding his Garda vetting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49900/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the strength of An Garda Síochána in the short-term in all divisions throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44446/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which she proposes to augment the strength of An Garda Síochána in accordance with the need for an increased Garda presence throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44449/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 171. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which An Garda Síochána continue to have sufficient resources at their disposal to meet the threats of organised crime and drug/people trafficking notwithstanding the recent spectacular success in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44452/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she remains satisfied that adequate surveillance resources have been allocated to An Garda Síochána to combat the threat of drug and people trafficking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44453/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which she continues to provide adequate resources to enable An Garda Síochána to adequately police organised crime, including drug running, trafficking or other similar activities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33972/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...degree to which she and her Department continue to combat the various levels of organised crime operating in this jurisdiction or internationally; the extent to which she continues to ensure that An Garda Síochána has sufficient resources to deal with the situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34349/23]