Results 1-20 of 167 for garda speaker:Michael McNamara

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: To the extent that tonight's debate allows us focus on the Garda Síochána Act 2005 and the resources allocated to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, I welcome it. It is important that sufficient resources are allocated to GSOC to enable it carry out all investigations it determines as admissible. In other words, it should no longer have to refer...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (16 Nov 2021)

Michael McNamara: 469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have been redeployed or retired from the Clare Garda division during 2019 and 2020, respectively; and the number of members of An Garda Síochána that have been assigned to the Clare Garda division for duty during the same periods. [56063/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: 976. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who were redeployed or retired from the Clare Garda division during 2021 and 2022; the number of members of An Garda Síochána that were assigned to the Clare Garda division for duty during both years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17275/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have been redeployed or retired from the Clare Garda division during the first nine months of 2023; the number of members of An Garda Síochána that have been assigned to the Clare Garda division for duty during both years; and if she will make a statement on...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...the right to come back to it on Report Stage. There is one point I wish to raise, however. It relates to this idea that we will have a single organisation and everybody will just work for An Garda Síochána without differentiation between members and staff - that there will be a corps of civilian staff and members of An Garda Síochána working arm in arm and hand in...

Industrial Relations (Members of the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces) Bill 2015: First Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Michael McNamara: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the right of representative associations established under the Garda Síochána Act 2005, the Garda Síochána Act 1924 or the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990, to carry on negotiations for the fixing of pay or other conditions of employment of their members and to join national umbrella organisation...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wish to raise section 207. I appreciate that I was not present. The Bill progressed with considerable haste and I wish to raise my reservations about the fact that a search of a Garda station, etc, must be notified and essentially requires the agreement of the Garda Commissioner to do this. I am not entirely sure that that is consistent with a fully independent investigative role and is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: 406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the progress outlined on 29 March 2022 that the Garda Commissioner had instructed that a fresh investigation be undertaken into the matters which a judge (details supplied) determined required further investigation in their report on the statutory inquiry under section 42 of the Garda...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2013)

Michael McNamara: ...is telling the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice and Equality is totally at variance with what we all of us are hearing on a daily basis. The GRA is urgently requesting a meeting with the Garda Commissioner and wants him to outline how he is going to support his force. The Taoiseach is saying one thing here and another thing elsewhere. He and some of his Ministers have said that...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...16, to delete “to withhold his or her services”. Amendments Nos. 63 and 153 are similar. In 2014 or thereabouts, the European Confederation of Police, EuroCOP, to which the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI, is affiliated, took a case to the European Committee of Social Rights and was successful. The Committee determined that it was contrary to the...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Michael McNamara: ..., it does certainly suggest that political policing would be possible under the old statutory regime. I am glad to see that has changed to the extent that section 133 of the Bill now states: the Garda Commissioner shall keep the Authority fully informed of the following: (a) matters relevant to the functions of the Authority; (b) any other matters that, in the opinion of the...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Michael McNamara: I commend the Garda Inspectorate on its report. It has done the State a considerable service in producing a very detailed report with a long list of recommendations. I thank and commend the Minister, Deputy Shatter, on having commissioned that report. In an attempt to politicise this debate it has been overlooked that the Minister, Deputy Shatter commissioned the report at a time when much...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Michael McNamara: I have no doubt that An Garda Síochána will do the job this House assigns it to do but will the Minister rule out asking gardaí to fine a parent visiting his or her child? If parents cannot pay such a fine, will the Minister have him them brought to court? If they will not go to court, a bench warrant will be issued, which An Garda Síochána will have to execute...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: This relates to the need for profound reform of the legislation governing An Garda Síochána, rather than putting another sticking plaster over what is increasingly a festering wound. The Garda Commissioner appointed somebody to investigate the case and it was subsequently found that somebody had been procured to give evidence against the garda concerned. All of this was brought to...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Michael McNamara: I move Amendment No. 19: In page 55, to delete lines 4 to 14. The Minister will essentially merge An Garda Síochána with what up to now has been considered to be the civilian members of An Garda Síochána and I have no problem with that whatsoever. I have no problem with the majority of the proposals in the Bill but I have a problem with is that it can be done...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Communications Surveillance (26 Jan 2016)

Michael McNamara: 285. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the telephone records of any Member of the 31st Dáil were provided to An Garda Síochána, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission or the Defence Forces; if she will authorise telecommunications operators to release such information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3013/16]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 43: In page 54, to delete lines 33 to 38, and in page 55, to delete lines 1 to 5. The purpose of these amendments is to continue to facilitate the Garda Commissioner in appointing persons as members of Garda staff. However, they also remove the effect of civilian staff of An Garda Síochána who are civil servants of the Government immediately before the...

Written Answers — Garda Vetting of Personnel: Garda Vetting of Personnel (7 Feb 2012)

Michael McNamara: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Garda clearance documents are only given to companies or organisations which have registered with the Garda clearance centre and documents are not issued to persons living here or organisations or individuals located abroad despite the fact that many Irish persons require such clearance to take up jobs with foreign...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...struck down the existing practice, or at least found it lacked a lawful basis. We are now proposing to introduce this system on exactly such a basis. I am convinced it is a considerable waste of Garda time not to have a presenting officer. I am not convinced at all, however, that a return to the status quois not an equal waste of Garda time. We have this great habit in Ireland of...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Michael McNamara: Much good has come from the unfortunate events of recent weeks. Whistleblowers have acquired a new status and respect, largely as a result of the report of the Garda Inspectorate commissioned by the Minister. A commission of inquiry into Garda telephone recording led by Mr. Justice Nial Fennelly of the Supreme Court will shed light on recordings dating back to the 1980s, including when they...