Results 1-20 of 317 for garda speaker:Seán Sherlock

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 1008. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a citizenship application for a person (details supplied); to account for the repeated requests for Garda vetting when the requests have been complied with and processing has been deemed completed; and to set out any other requirements that may be asked of the applicant in order to complete the overall...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the telephone numbers that the public use in relation to An Garda Síochána that are freephone; the numbers that incur a charge; for those numbers that incur a charge, how much was charged to callers in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and who benefits from those charges, in tabular form. [29676/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (23 May 2023)

Seán Sherlock: 546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda graduates from Templemore in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the district they were first posted to, in tabular form. [24363/23]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (28 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Frankie Feighan - To discuss the need to establish Sligo Garda station as a divisional headquarters for An Garda Síochána. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - To discuss the establishment of waste water treatment plants in villages and settlements...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (7 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...Wynne - to seek an update on the review of the Abhaile scheme. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae - to discuss the Kilcummin sewerage scheme. Deputy Frankie Feighan - to discuss the need to establish Sligo Garda station as a divisional headquarters. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - to discuss the challenge of securing post-primary school places for more than twenty students in Limerick. Deputy Seán...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 485. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received a notification or any other such correspondence from the Garda Commissioner in relation to the location of the Criminal Assets Bureau to Heuston Station; and if such correspondence refers to any measure by An Garda Síochána to reduce the capability of CAB to be able to carry out its core...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...street know drug use and sale and supply are increasing but the policing response, anecdotally, is moving away. The resources are not there. We now need the community health response. If one speaks to members of An Garda Síochána privately and off the record, they will say the same thing. It is beyond policing and beyond a criminal justice thought process or framework in...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...in the legislation in terms of when a person can take leave for certain circumstances - for example, visiting a legal practitioner, seeking legal advice or even seeking the assistance of An Garda Síochána - I would contend that five days within a consecutive 12-month period is not enough. I ask the Minister to please, if at all possible, revisit this on Report Stage to see if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda numbers by rank, in each station in Cork city and county, in tabular form; and the number of cars and bikes in each station; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54033/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I, too, welcome the Commissioner and his colleagues to our committee this morning. I would like a better understanding of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau and how it operates. How many investigating gardaí or officers are assigned to that unit?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome that. I suppose I am trying to get at whether it is seen as a priority for An Garda Síochána on the basis of the growth of cybercrime. It is now such a vast area of crime. It is a relatively new frontier or phenomenon. One worries that not enough resources are being deployed at the coalface to meet the crime detection requirements. If one could be disabused of that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Commissioner. I appreciate the answer. If the figures on personnel were made available to the committee, they would certainly be very useful to us. A statement of the Garda Commissioner’s intention from a policy point of view to increase the numbers of staff in the cybercrime unit would give the public some confidence also. I just want to move on to-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Could I move on to the justice plan? The Commissioner made reference to the digital recording Bill. The Garda Representative Association has been very strong on the need for body-worn camera, bodycam, units. These will be legislated for in the digital recording Bill, presumably. What engagement has the Commissioner had with the Minister for Justice on that Bill? Assuming that the Bill...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Seán Sherlock: ...a heart attack and his ambulance was cancelled. An advanced paramedic did arrive about 1.5 hrs after the accident had happened. Around the same time a local doctor ... saw the lights and came to help. The gardai were on the scene throughout. Eventually 2.5 hrs after the accident, as the night was cold and wet, the man had to be taken from the car and brought to a neighbour's house for his...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Seán Sherlock: ...Mayor of Dublin, Andrew Montague, who has been critical of the scourge of these vehicles for many years now. Despite the Road Traffic Act and other relevant legislation available in this area, Garda authorities have indicated that the use of quad bikes and scramblers by minors and youths in public parks has proven difficult to deal with from an enforcement perspective. Members of An...

Access of Competent Authorities to Centralised Bank Account Registries: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Seán Sherlock: There was an interesting article inThe Irish Times by Conor Lally. It stated: Gardaí have identified over 50 young people in and around one Co. Kerry town who were recruited as money mules for an international crime syndicate. The Irish Times understands a young man from Munster is believed to be working for the crime gang as a recruiter and his reach into the local population,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Seán Sherlock: When the Chair says that we must keep those in our programme, are we proposing to bring An Garda Síochána and the Prison Service before the committee? Are we proposing to bring representatives from the Department of Social Protection before the committee?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (24 Mar 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 1261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff currently working in cybersecurity within An Garda Síochána. [15213/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (10 Feb 2021)

Seán Sherlock: 675. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the reduction in the number of Garda youth diversion projects in the Dublin metropolitan region, north central area, from five in 2015 down to three in 2020; the details of the locations of these programmes in 2015 and 2020; her plans to extend the Garda youth diversion project in the north inner city; and if...