Results 1-20 of 485 for garda speaker:Alan Kelly

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017)

Alan Kelly: Maybe Mr. Nugent could send another email around. On the second issue, I will direct my query directly to the acting Garda Commissioner. During our initial hearings in respect of the Garda College in Templemore, the committee heard that there was a lot of toing and froing around a meeting on 27 July, the duration of which the Commissioner was not sure and around which time the issues in...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Alan Kelly: Could the acting Garda Commissioner answer my question? All I want to know is whether the criteria are the same. The acting Garda Commissioner has read the criteria into the record. We did not know about these criteria, so that was helpful. There are criteria that I am now aware of. We know what was said in a Dáil question some years ago. The acting Garda Commissioner said that the...

Garda Commissioner: Motion [Private Members] (12 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: We have a serious issue in regard to the Garda. My party has publically stated we do not have confidence in the Commissioner or senior management. Of the 145,000 wrongly-issued District Court summonses for fixed charge road traffic offences, 14,700 resulted in convictions and penalty points being issued. Those convictions and penalties will have to be rectified by the courts and set aside....

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Can the Acting Commissioner confirm that all emails relating to Garda business are kept by An Garda Síochána? He should remember that Mr. Nugent, who is sitting beside him, confirmed to me in writing yesterday that all emails sent and received using Garda email are retained and I understand that. He has also confirmed that private email has been used. Can the Acting Commissioner...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Who followed on? I am trying to establish whether there is somebody within the corporate structure of the Department who works with An Garda Síochána on managing its Vote. What if the Garda Commissioner decides, for instance, that An Garda Síochána needs a new fleet of cars? Surely there is somebody from the Department who meets Garda management regularly, asks what is...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Alan Kelly: My understanding is that the selection of the stations for closure was based on three things, namely, an activity analysis of the Garda network, an examination of the impact assessments conducted by local Garda management in respect of stations regarding delivery, and a detailed review of the Garda station network in the Dublin metropolitan region. In an answer to a Topical Issue debate on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Alan Kelly: Okay. I understand what the deputy commissioner said but I do not accept it. I have made my point and people are well aware of the contradiction in relation to the actions of An Garda Síochána based on three different reports. The Garda Síochána receives funding from the Road Safety Authority, RSA, and the National Transport Authority, NTA, for enforcement operations...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am not asking the witness to talk about what she has done and, in fairness, she was not Garda Commissioner at the time. However, is it not incredible that the internal auditor of An Garda Síochána on multiple occasions asked for a report - one he knew existed as he had been told about it - on the financial irregularities in Templemore College and, on multiple occasions, the...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: -----in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality five weeks ago. The message states:An Garda Síochána has previously confirmed that, on occasion, members of the organisation have used commercial email systems to send or receive business-related emails. That generally occurred when access to commercial email systems was available from Garda desktops, which is no...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (20 Dec 2012)

Alan Kelly: I met with the Garda Commissioner as recently as last month on the matter of enforcement. To enforce the taxi regulations, including pursuit of the offences mentioned in the Deputy’s question, the role of the Garda Síochána is critical to support the work of the enforcement officers of the National Transport Authority, NTA, who have responsibility for nationwide...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Transport (30 Jul 2020)

Alan Kelly: 1019. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of the purchase of a new Garda car for the Minister for Foreign Affairs (details supplied); the estimated cost of the new car and two Garda drivers; and the way this is going to be replaced in the budget of An Garda Síochána. [19628/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Most of us who were here the last time and today, have sat here for the guts of ten hours and gone through thousands of pages. We have seen multiple contradictions between Garda management, among themselves and with the Commissioner. We have seen evidence that two members of civilian senior management do not have full confidence in their colleagues. We see issues across the board over...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Alan Kelly: In fairness to the acting Garda Commissioner, I believe that when he came in here in July he gave us that commitment in good faith. I thought that the two letters that came from the Department and from the acting Garda Commissioner himself, although short, were very revealing. In his letter, the acting Garda Commissioner states that he is aware that the Secretary General of the Department...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Alan Kelly: It is very rare that I stand up on the Order of Business but I feel desperately that we need as a Legislature to have a debate about the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. What is going on at the moment is outrageous. Its latest decision is to prosecute a garda for pursuing three members of a well-known criminal gang, with more than 200 convictions, because he did his duty...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: We asked for a copy of the risk register in respect of the Garda College. The response to that request states that An Garda Síochána risk registers are restricted documents, with only those involved in the risk management process or the auditing of risk being provided access to them. Would that be the norm? Second, are we not entitled to copies of the risk registers? I would...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Nobody in the Department, on a day to day or month to month basis, was managing the relationship with An Garda Síochána since 2006, in terms of its financial management. No one in the Department had a co-ordination, oversight, communication or other role in terms of liaising or working with An Garda Síochána on financial management, financial requirements, the total of...

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

Alan Kelly: 268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda recruits that completed phase 1, phase 2, phase 3 and phase 4 training, respectively, in the Garda College for each of the years 2016 to 2023, inclusive, and the number of Garda recruits that were attested as Gardaí between 2016 and 2023, in tabular form by phase and year; and if she will make a...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Feb 2013)

Alan Kelly: Section 6 is required to define a licensing authority for the purpose of the Bill. The section reflects the current situation, whereby the Garda has responsibility for small public service vehicle, SPSV, driver licensing. This section also allows for a future scenario whereby it is envisaged that the administration of the SPSV driver licensing functions will be transferred to the NTA in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...must go to the Dáil Chamber to discuss related matters. In terms of the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO, we heard the last time that there were a number of people who worked in An Garda Síochána who failed to meet their obligations. I ask the acting Garda Commissioner is everyone who needs to be in An Garda Síochána now fully compliant with SIPO...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...in this instance. We have an acknowledgement that private email was used by people in the force - civilian and those of rank. We also have confirmation that emails sent and received on the Garda IT system are kept. However, we now have confirmation that in our State that where members use private email and an email is not sent to or received using a Garda email account, our country and...