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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Denis Naughten: ..., the switch-off of 3G and the implications of that, and the TETRA emergency response service, which is being decommissioned? The taxpayer is going to have to put a new network in place for our ambulances and Garda anyway, which will have to be on a geographical basis, and it would make more sense to piggyback on that. My understanding is that the industry has put forward proposals on...

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

Denis Naughten: ...there is a significant issue here. She has publicly acknowledged this and it is important. All of us in the House recognise there are serious concerns about the ongoing challenges with An Garda Síochána and the unofficial industrial action that is taking place. We are speaking about having an immediate review of An Garda Síochána as a force, with engagement with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency (4 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...not progressed. I have a reply from 18 November 2009 in which the Minister's predecessor, former Minister of State Barry Andrews, assured the House that a protocol was being put in place with the Garda and the HSE at that stage, 14 years ago. It is clear that when foster carers are responsible for the care of some of our most vulnerable children, they are less likely to be exploited. I...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...are being retraumatised by having to go back to court in the first place. Irrespective of whether it is in camera, they are being retraumatised by having to go back in, give statements to the Garda, provide evidence to the Garda, have witnesses and so forth in order to actually take this. A victim must pass a huge threshold in order for this to come back before the courts in the first...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...of the people of this country to retired sergeant John Hynes, who did a significant amount of work in securing convictions, particularly in the west. He was probably one of the foremost members of An Garda Síochána in terms of securing prosecutions in this State for what were very complex and challenging offences which took place across the west. In fact, 26 of the 28 cases he...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will not dwell on the point now. I accept the point the Minister has made. It is progress that a member of An Garda Síochána may seek that extension. However, the reality is that the individual is effectively on tenterhooks from the minute the order is put in place because they are required to continually collate evidence if harassment it is going on. It is bad enough that the...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: The people who the Minister has been talking to in the Garda and those to whom I have been talking to are very different. I have been talking to people who are enforcing this at the coalface. There is a requirement, within three days of people changing their name by deed poll, to notify a divisional Garda headquarters somewhere in the country. This comes back to the argument we had at the...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...the passing of this Act, lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on how registered sex offenders are able to change their name or other aspects of their identity without the knowledge of the Garda Síochána with the intention of subverting the purpose of this Act.”. This is a related issue. I thank my colleague, Sarah Champion MP, from the UK and her advisor...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I want to come back on amendment No. 20. The Minister said it is important that the information is shared. I acknowledge the Bill provides a legal mechanism for the Garda to share information for the first time, something which was not available up to now, and expose members of the force that provided very relevant and valid information. My problem is that the Minister believes it is...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...of previous crimes from harassment from a convicted sex offender following the release of the offender from prison. Sadly, this intimidation is all too common. Covert intimidation takes place. It is nearly impossible for the Garda to be in a position to secure a conviction due to the current law, which refers to harassment more broadly. I can understand that. There is history here....

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, lines 16 and 17, to delete "any Garda Síochána station which is a divisional headquarters" and substitute "the nearest public office of the Garda Síochána to where they reside".

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, lines 26 and 27, to delete "any Garda Síochána station which is a divisional headquarters" and substitute "the nearest public office of the Garda Síochána to where they reside".

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...in some rural part of the west being able to go to Wexford, Waterford or Cork, present there and he or she will have complied with the legislation. Having only three days for a member of An Garda Síochána in the west to go through the volume of notifications, identify that someone has moved to their area, and track him or her down and give that person notice to be fingerprinted...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...we turn it on its head and look at it from the opposite perspective, rather than looking at this provision and how it facilitates sex offenders, it will be seen it is not limiting them to the local Garda station. What the Minister is saying to a convicted sex offender, who must be monitored and who poses a high risk in the community, is that he or she can go to any Garda station in the...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...to get this far. Is the Minister honestly telling me we are going to see amending legislation when there is a problem with what we are enacting now? We will not. The Minister is telling us the Garda is saying it is happy with what is in this Bill. I have been at this for 13 years and I can tell the Minister that gardaí throughout the country enforcing these measures now are saying...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...No. 2: In page 9, lines 4 to 6, to delete all words from and including “any” in line 4 down to and including “section” in line 6 and substitute “the nearest public office of the Garda Síochána to where they reside”. Before the clock starts, I wish to recognise retired Garda Sergeant John Hynes and his wife, Catherine, who are in the...

Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...and parish in the country. It makes financial sense for the Government to do it if there is a little bit of joined-up thinking. The reason for that is the existing TETRA radio system used by An Garda Síochána and the emergency services is costing us €40 million a year. The technology is obsolete. We are going to put in a new network and spend a lot of taxpayers' money...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...Northern Ireland. The estimated cost of replicating that here would be between €30 million and €50 million. This is small money and would also slash the cost of the provision of an emergency Garda communications network, which must now be tendered for and a new separate network built. I ask the Government to reconsider this in the interests of putting an effective shared...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...areas of the country two years later, by 2030, is not very ambitious. On top of that, Government will have to tender for the new Tetra radio communications network, a digital radio service for An Garda Síochána and for the other emergency services, which is costing the taxpayer €40 million per annum at the moment. This network needs to be replaced with a 5G network to...