Results 1-20 of 56 for garda speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (23 Apr 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in light of the announcement of the proposed changes to mandatory retirement age in An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces and the Irish Prison Service, he can confirm when these changes will come into effect; if the new legislation will include changes to post-1995 pensions in the public sector which may allow retired...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (7 Feb 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all Ukrainian refugees are Garda vetted coming into Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5086/24]

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

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am thankful to have the opportunity to speak on this motion. On a personal basis, I get on well with the Minister. I think, though, that the Garda Commissioner has lost the dressing room completely. Our thoughts must be with the people who were stabbed and hurt before the riots. We wish them well. I hear all this talk about the far right in this country. Yes, there are extreme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Hemp Sector in Ireland: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the representatives for coming in. I have met some of them previously. My understanding is that people growing hemp could have the Garda coming to them accusing them of something. A few years ago, I remember we put in questions to try to see if this could be resolved. To be honest about it, we are facing a brick wall. I have a few questions. Ms Carmody talked about peaty...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: .... Given what we are doing at the moment, those in middle Ireland who are going out to work every day are being pushed out of being able to rent a house or, further down the road, afford a house. At one time, a nurse and a garda, no matter where they were in the country, were able to afford a house, but they would want mummy and daddy to give them a bit of a pot to be able to afford a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Pensions (21 Oct 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for a Garda spouses pension submitted by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51726/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding will be provided for the purchase of high-powered jet skis for the Garda water unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37613/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of quad bikes, all-terrain vehicles, scramblers and similar types of vehicles seized by gardaí in each Garda division in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37614/21]

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jun 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...Regardless of what religion we are talking about, and I am not referring to any specific faith, we were told in the Dáil that churches and priests would not be affected. On the day members of the Garda went into a church, I believe we crossed a fine line in this country. The Government needs to rethink and take responsibility for its decisions. We are constantly hearing that...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...for two days to finish their house out in the countryside in order that they can live in it. We live in a country where a person who was roofing a house in Portumna was told by a member of An Garda Síochána to go. We live in a country where a group of workers from Northern Ireland can come down here every day, go into every shop in this country and work on a social housing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Civilian Staff (10 Nov 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 587. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of civilian staff for each of the past five years in An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34564/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Civilian Staff (10 Nov 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the civilian staff numbers in An Garda Síochána per grade; the number of PTE and FTE equivalents annually for the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34565/20]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...has been cancelled for them. If we could take them in tens over the next three weeks or a month in a safe way, not an unsafe way, we must ensure that is facilitated. I do not believe the Garda want the powers, as Deputy Connolly said. Private property is private property and if somebody tells a garda that he or she does not want the garda on the property, what can the garda do about...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...to look at the cattle. These are the problems around the country. I have been very blunt in outlining how we solve things. The off-licences should be closed and the pubs should be opened from 10 p.m. A garda can walk into a pub because there is legislation for that.

Death of Garda Colm Horkan: Expressions of Sympathy (24 Jun 2020)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Last Sunday, we listened to the words of a priest in Castlerea as he spoke of how, when word came through that a garda had been shot, he had pitied whoever would have to deliver the news to the family the following morning. There is shock and numbness in the community, not alone in Castlerea and Charlestown but right around the country. To hear people talk about Detective Garda Colm Horkan,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Refurbishment (12 Nov 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within the Donegal Garda division that were refurbished by the OPW in which the value of works was in excess of €5,000 in 2018 and to date in 2019; the details of the works carried out at the stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46482/19]

Rural Crime: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jan 2019)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...a review of trespass laws are good idea. We need to move forward with those. The recommendations of Kathleen O'Toole's report included much of what many people have said about ensuring there are gardaí in local areas. Strategically, the Garda stations that are going to be open and the ones that are not need to be nailed down sooner rather than later. Communities in some places are...

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...this does not continue to happen. In my opinion, many of the banks involved are scum. Yesterday in County Roscommon a group of 20 or 30 men with dogs came from the North, aided and abetted by An Garda Síochána who blocked off two roads. The group of men pegged three people, two of whom were elderly, out of a house and left them on the side of the road. They were aided and...

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...have been driving them for a long time may lose a limb or be killed. Therefore, we need to make sure the manufacturers place safety roll bars on them. In this country we think we can give the Garda every job in the world to do and that it will solve everything. In fairness, when numbers in the Garda traffic corps have been brought down from 1,100 to 570, they cannot be everywhere....

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2018)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ..., whenever it will come. It is like trying to look into the future. That is not the way to give a perfect education to children. This is about a child in Kilcroan school near Ballymoe or in Tarmon, which also has broadband problems or a Garda station with no PULSE because there is a deficiency in the broadband. That is crucifying areas. Do the children in those areas not matter or...