Results 1-20 of 623 for garda speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...;notes that: — 937,000 breath tests that never occurred were falsely recorded on the Police Using Leading Systems Effectively (PULSE) system, and that the existence of a problem in this regard was communicated to the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O’Sullivan in 2014; — there were 146,865 District Court summonses for road traffic offences wrongly issued and that...

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2:(a) To delete, in the seventh paragraph, after the words “investigate these serious allegations so as”, the words “to ensure public confidence in An Garda Síochána and”; (b) To insert, in the seventh paragraph, after the words “respond to the public disquiet caused by these allegations” the words “and noting...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (25 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Deputies Daly and Wallace, who have done the State a great service in how they pursued the matter regarding Sergeant Maurice McCabe and whistleblowers generally and serious problems within the Garda, both in terms of how they conduct or fail to conduct proper policing and in how they deal with whistleblowers. However, the statement today by Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...we understand him to have known last week as against what he said in the Dáil. When addressing the House, the Minister used the phrases "I understand that no connection between any member of An Garda Síochána with any of these matters arose" and "While no information has been furnished to me by GSOC suggesting that An Garda Síochána was involved in any way in what...

Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The revelations and scandals surrounding allegations of Garda malpractice, corruption, cover-ups and wrongdoing are of the most serious nature. We have had in very quick succession quite shocking revelations about the extent of these practices within An Garda Síochána and allegations regarding the apparent complicity of the Department of Justice and Equality and Governments and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (14 Jan 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 404. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to do away with non-convictions showing up on Garda statements issued in response to Garda clearance requests from employers-colleges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49599/14]

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Tánaiste think it is necessary for senior Garda management, particularly the Garda Commissioner, to enjoy the confidence of the public in order for that Commissioner and management to function effectively? It seems to me that has to be the case. If it is not the case that person is not suitable. Can the Tánaiste honestly tell us with a straight face that the public has...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...General briefed the Taoiseach about the seriousness of the bugging, the Minister was briefed on Monday and then the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality went to see the Garda Commissioner. Did the Minister know the Secretary General of his Department was going and what he was going to say to the Garda Commissioner or what he did say? Could the Minister give us a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...investigate a series of deadly attacks by loyalist paramilitaries in Ireland in the early and mid-1970s including the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. They particularly castigated the failure of the Garda and the State to produce the files on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. The anniversary of those massacres is coming up on 17 May. A new documentary film in which the families have been...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the last couple of hours, I have been informed by the four national representative taxi groups that the Garda has banned their planned protest, which was due to take place outside Leinster House tomorrow, on Merrion Street. This is a shocking development. There would be no threat to public health because the taxi drivers were going to be in their cars. That was clearly outlined to the...

Garda Operations (7 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is something very wrong with how the gardaí are behaving in the Rossport area and with how they are allowing private security companies that are working for Shell Oil to treat protestors. When I submitted this question it was on the basis of reports that IRMS, a private security company working for Shell, was putting up checkpoints on main roads and vetting traffic that was going past...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in them. He tried to take pot shots at the Opposition rather than deal with the substance. He rubbished the whistleblowers who had the courage to speak out about widespread malpractice in the Garda. The Minister sacrificed the confidential recipient because he raised the most alarming suggestions about the Minister's demeanour when it came to the whistleblowers. He rubbished the...

Garda Operations (7 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given that the issues about the behaviour of the Garda are disputed and there are many complaints against the behaviour of the Garda, specifically in this area, is it not reasonable that some independent body would come in or that independent, international observers come in and make an objective judgment on this? Is that not a reasonable request given that the matter is now disputed and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...there are two different things which could or might not be connected. We have clearly established that Mr. O'Brien believes there was a leak. Who has access to secret information within the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and is giving it to people in the media? That is a very serious issue. On what initially led GSOC to enlist the security firm, it was in the context of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Garda Síochána is currently engaged in a joint EU-funded research programme called real time network, text and speaker analytics for combating organised crime, ROXANNE. The programme has been in place since September 2019 and runs to August 2022. Among the participants on this programme is the Israeli Ministry of Public Security, which oversees the Israeli prison service,...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a report outlining the progress of the investigation and noting that the extent to which witnesses required the assistance of legal advisers was unusual and uncommon in the experience of the Garda. Therefore, the then Minister knew. Will the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, confirm that the then Minister knew and explain why alarm bells did not ring? We were told the DPP in December...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of the Bill are, as set out in the explanatory memorandum, to "recognise the prevention of harm to individuals, particularly those who are vulnerable or at risk, as an explicit objective of An Garda Síochána; provide a new coherent governance and oversight framework for policing that will strengthen both the internal management of An Garda Síochána and independent...

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not surprise me but it is completely scandalous that we have revelations from yet another Garda whistleblower alleging that innocent people's phones are being tapped. In one case, according to the allegation, a sitting Deputy had his or her phone tapped by An Garda Síochána, possibly as a result of pressure from a Minister. Certainly, the whistleblower believes it was a...

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The long and terrible struggle of Maurice McCabe and other heroic Garda whistleblowers is certainly not over but at least there is light at the end of the tunnel after the horrendous journey these whistleblowers have undertaken to expose wrongdoing, malpractice, criminal misconduct and corruption in the Garda Síochána, an institution which is supposed to uphold law and justice....

Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (20 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and to articulate their demands on what they need in respect of redress. While the church authorities have, rightly, been criticised, the Minister also must consider the issue of the failure of the Garda to report complaints of abuse to the health boards, as well as the fact that in some cases, gardaí were assessing whether priests about whom complaints had been made were an ongoing risk...