Results 1-20 of 553 for garda speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 931. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who are suspended at present due to alleged unproven offences, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12575/24]

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...a representative of the people of Kerry, I want to say how sorry and shocked I am to think of innocent little children and their carer and minder being attacked in a savage way. I compliment the gardaí, the firemen, the emergency responders and the ambulance people for facing into what was an awful situation later on that evening. It was horrendous. When we should all have been...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (7 Nov 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 402 of 24 October 2023, how An Garda Síochána will decide whether to charge someone for the crime of incitement to hatred, i.e., on what basis it is decided if hatred, specifically, has been incited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47695/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...;il and Fine Gael are facilitating the Green Party's underinvestment in roads which, in turn, as stated by TII, will lead to more deaths on our roads. Road deaths are already spiralling out of control. An Garda Síochána statistics state that 151 road deaths already this year compares to 116 at the same time last year. I take this opportunity to say how sorry I am that, in...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...in Ireland. That is a very worrying thought. One of the main issues contributing to this underestimation is the persistent limitations of the national referral mechanism and the fact that An Garda Síochána remains the sole authority responsible for identifying victims of trafficking. Various forms of human trafficking remain under-recognised and under-reported. A...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: It was so disappointing to see the Minister for Justice turn her back on the rank and file gardaí up and down the length and breadth of this country and to give a blank cheque of support to Commissioner Drew Harris. He has failed in securing the support of even a minority of gardaí and he has let them down. However, the Minister and the Government gave him a blank cheque. If only...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: What about An Garda Síochána? The Minister forgot about that.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the retention of the Special Criminal Court as it has been effective against subversive elements and organised criminal gangs. I use this opportunity to pay a special compliment and to thank An Garda Síochána as always for the excellent work it has been and is doing. I also mention the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, and to thank the organisation for the massive positive...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that superintendents in An Garda Síochána are implementing recommendations from the firearms expert committee before the online consultation is over (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25321/23]

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...in different types of distress over the decades. I also want to thank the people in the ADAPT refuge in Kerry and all the people who work in the services. I also want to thank members of An Garda Síochána for the kindness they show to people at times of trauma in their lives after sexual violence. Members of the Garda are at the coalface of that on many occasions and the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to the recruitment of gardaí, of the successful candidates that took up a place in Templemore, the number that successfully passed out as members of An Garda Síochána (details supplied). [4818/23]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...to Trooper Shane Kearney. I thank them, and we are standing in solidarity with the Defence Forces. Today it is only right and proper that we also think of other people, like our own members of An Garda Síochána, who put themselves in harm's way on a daily basis to protect and uphold the law and the rule of our land, whether that is at home or abroad. I send a very special word...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...he was. "Michael", he said, "isn't it awful? Long ago when I was building a scheme of houses, the one group of people that you were guaranteed would be able to get a mortgage and buy one of my homes were the Garda and the nurse and the person like that." He is always building affordable houses. He was not a fly-by-night who came along and went. He stood the test of time. He still...

Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...courts system. It has led to a great deal of uncertainty and people say there are cases that are in limbo because of this. That is why it is very important that we are having this debate. The Garda Síochána and the people in charge of it should be able to look upon the Government and us as legislators and be able to say that we are being sure-footed, exact and precise about...

Proposal for a Directive on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: Motion (21 Jun 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...be put in place because we must ensure that people are safe at all times. Of course, people should not have to leave their homes. One's home should be a safe place. I also sincerely thank the Garda in Kerry for the purple tie day it organised on 29 April. I thank Garda Fidelma O'Leary and all the gardaí in Kerry who attended that occasion, along with many people from other...

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome the Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021. It is only right and proper that we streamline and make more straightforward the issue of gardaí who are genuinely injured in the course of duty receiving adequate compensation. They might be out of work, have loss of earnings or future earnings or have pain and suffering from an injury and it is only right that we...

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...developers we have ever had in this country, who has been building homes for between 40 and 50 years, probably. He is a highly respectable individual. He told me that when we are at a stage when the garda and the nurse cannot afford to buy a house anywhere in this country, we are in serious trouble. He said the Government must be willing to sit down with people like him. He meant the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance (4 May 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...50 years' worth of building experience in Ireland and is a very respectable individual who would have provided thousands of homes throughout Ireland. He told me that when we are at a stage when a garda or a nurse cannot afford to buy a home in any part of Ireland - and he said he was not talking about buying in Dublin - we have lost the plot completely. He said we are completely wrong...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 Dec 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Garda recruitment will take place in January 2022; if not, if recruitment will be held later; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61929/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...couples who want to start out on their own in the property market and buy an affordable house. When I was growing up, it was an awful sum of money, but the average house cost £30,000. Whether you worked in the local co-op or whether you were a garda or a teacher, the average house the length and breadth of the country, when I was a teenager, cost £30,000. In our heads we...