Results 1-20 of 261 for garda speaker:Colm Burke

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: No. I am raising this matter because it is difficult for the Garda to intervene if it is uncomfortable about whether there is adequate legislation to deal with an issue. Would the Garda feel safer if there was appropriate legislation in place that gave the Garda a clear understanding of where the boundaries were when dealing with particular issues?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: I might on to the issue of Garda infrastructure. The figure for the capital programme was €325 million in 2022. The process in modernising Garda stations is delayed. We were talking about the OPW and the timeline. Can something be done to restructure the timeline for taking a project from start to finish? It appears to be taking forever to get any new Garda station built.

Seanad: Garda Resources: Motion (6 Feb 2013)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister for coming to the House and for taking decisions in respect of proper management of the Garda force in this country. Two Government Ministers were severely criticised recently because decisions were taken affecting particular areas and false allegations were made. Now, however, the Minister for Justice and Equality has taken a decision that affects his own constituency...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cybersecurity Policy (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I am looking at this issue from the perspective of there being expertise within An Garda Síochána. Do we have a sufficient number of people with this expertise in the Garda? Is there a proposal to expand the number of people working in this area? I think it was €237 million the Minister referred to as being stolen in this fashion between 2020 and 2023. I refer to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Have there been any discussions between the Department and An Garda Síochána on this issue? An Garda Síochána obviously has concerns about it. The last thing we need, in situations where An Garda Síochána feels there has been a clear breach of the regulations, is a long drawn out process to determine whether that is the case. Then we are in the whole area of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: ...in a hospital premises, is that the person responsible was never prosecuted. We are talking about more than 5,000 cases being reported in a very short time period. Of those, how many did the Garda prosecute? How many were brought forward for Garda prosecutions or were put on the record with the Garda authorities? Do we have any figures in respect of the numbers that were reported and...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: I support the Minister. The work she has done stands out in the sense of the work being done daily by the Garda. In the last 12 months alone, the Garda has seized more than €271 million worth of illegal drugs, 1,575 firearms and 1,780 knives and dangerous instruments. This is the result of the proactive work of gardaí on the ground, including the work being done by community...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cybersecurity Policy (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: This matter is developing very fast. Is there a need for the Garda and other State authorities to bring in people from outside? I am not saying necessarily from outside the Irish jurisdiction but from outside the Garda force to give assistance in providing the necessary support to assist the Garda in helping to deal with this area. I refer as well to investigations in this area, because it...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Colm Burke: ...number of new Bills commencing in the House? In recent weeks, a Bill was published to address the cash for gold business where stolen items are being exchanged for cash and melted down before the Garda are informed. In recent days, a Garda superintendent informed me of a case involving two young lads who left secondary school at lunchtime, removed a copper cylinder from a vacant house...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Is GSOC satisfied that there are adequate procedures within the various Garda stations? I suppose the reason I am raising this is I ended up doing a judicial review a number of years ago over a £20 note. When I am saying it was a £20 note, I am going back a good few years ago. A garda was dismissed from the force and I was involved in a judicial review and got him reinstated. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)

Colm Burke: If there are genuine issues and concerns in respect of NAMA, and it appears there are, the appropriate authority to investigate them is the Garda. Any information people receive should be conveyed to the Garda. It is important to bear in mind also that valuations carried out even six months ago are now out of date because the market has changed. I received a telephone call in the last week...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Colm Burke: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Alan Dillon. Will the Minister outline her ongoing support for the Garda Síochána Inspectorate and the mechanisms for monitoring and appraising its performance? When does she expect An Garda Síochána's strategy statement 2022-2024 to be published? Will she make a statement on the matter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Okay, then let us move it on another bit. Every two or three months, we have a joint policing committee meeting between the local authority, the Garda and local public representatives. Is it not now time for the unions together with the HSE and Garda to have joint meetings in a similar way?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Stations Refurbishment (5 Feb 2013)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State for making time available. Since she is from my constituency she will be aware of the issues I am raising relating to Blarney Garda station and the station in Glanmire. My understanding is that tenders were invited and have been received for Blarney Garda station. Given that there are some changes in the way we are organising the deployment of gardaí...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Colm Burke: .... Forgive me if I go over areas that have already been covered. I was caught on some other issues during the day. I thank Ms Hall for her presentation, which I have read. I compliment the Garda on the work that has been done from 2020 onwards in dealing with the issue of Covid and the way in which it worked with local communities in providing help and support, especially to people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: There is already extensive legislation in place, for example, the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 and the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997. If the Garda feels that it cannot use this Bill to deal with an issue, is Ms McMahon satisfied that the current legislation gives it the security to deal with difficult protests? The Garda has wide powers under the 1997 Act, as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (6 Jul 2023)

Colm Burke: 199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, following an audit of all unoccupied properties previously used either to provide accommodation to members of An Garda Síochána or former Garda stations no longer in use, he will set out the number of these unoccupied properties which have been sold to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Perhaps the Department could give the committee some clarification on this issue. I like it when people can give me the full facts but in this case they are saying that there was no Garda investigation. Now we are being told something different inside here. Will the Department come back to us with clear information that there is still an ongoing Garda file and that it is not closed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: What if an assault takes place in a hospital and someone is actually hurt? In this case, I am referring to a situation where a nurse was held in a headlock and there was no Garda prosecution. Surely, there is something wrong with the system. In fairness to that person, if she files a statement with the health authority or HSE, is the HSE as the employer not obliged to make sure there is a...