Results 1-20 of 48 for garda speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...audacity of the individuals involved, to seek significant sums of money to withdraw completely fraudulent and groundless appeals to An Bord Pleanála. On television that night I called for a robust Garda investigation. I believe it is extortion under the Criminal Justice Act and I would like to see those people prosecuted. That is a matter for An Garda Síochána and the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...speaks to the need to strengthen that definition but also to go beyond State-wide newspapers. There are certain parts of the country where not only are there no post offices and not only are the Garda stations very rarely open, but where the people, when going into the local newsagents, do not choose to read The Irish Times, the Irish Independentor the tabloids. They read a set of other...

Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...a ban was not effected, a significant number of single people, couples, parents of children and pensioners would end up with nowhere to go. They would have been forced to sleep rough or present to Garda stations. That is why the ban was introduced. We pleaded with the Government to undertake a series of emergency interventions to ease the pressure on the emergency accommodation system...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... This means that when people present to their local authorities in April, May and June and no emergency accommodation is available, they will be forced to sleep rough, or if the Tusla guidance from 2018 continues in force, families with children will be referred to Garda stations for a safe place to sleep. We are going to see levels of homelessness that nobody ever thought was possible....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: There is no pro to being in emergency accommodation, sleeping in a tent or having to bring your children to a Garda station. The Taoiseach said the ban on evictions was not working. In fact, it was his Government that was not working. The reason the previous ban on evictions was so effective was because exits from homelessness rose. In the past year and half, under the watch of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...are facing not only an increase in people in emergency accommodation from April but also a rise in rough sleeping and, under Tusla's rules, the prospect of families with children being referred to Garda stations for a safe place to sleep. Let that sink in for a moment. In a wealthy country with tens of thousands of vacant homes and hundreds of millions in unspent Government capital...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...primary motivation that convinced Cabinet to support the last ban was that in October of last year, at least 19 local authorities had no emergency accommodation available at all on given nights. The prospect of families with children having to spend the night in Garda stations as per Tusla rules convinced the Government to act. The fact that we are now potentially going to be in a much...

Appointment of Ordinary Members of An Coimisiún Toghcháin: Motion (14 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...with great accuracy and therefore, if and when further information becomes available I will comment on it then. I would urge anybody with information on this story to bring that to the attention of the Garda in Clondalkin. With respect to the motion in front of us, I warmly welcome the establishment of the Electoral Commission. It is something many of us have long argued for and wanted...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (6 Dec 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are issues relating to the number of airport police or gardaí deployed at Dublin Airport; and if he will explain the reason there were no police or Garda personnel available to provide assistance at the airport on a specific date (details supplied). [60310/22]

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...response, I would say that first of all, we need to have the prompt publication of each of the individual review reports as soon as they are available. I appreciate the advice of the Attorney General with respect to the Garda investigation, but as soon as that report can be published, it should be. So too should the internal review of the board and the report of the Office of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Sep 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers are Garda vetted only once in their career, yet special needs assistants must be vetted for each position; and if so, the reason that this is the case. [45061/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Feb 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time equivalent gardaí currently stationed at Rathcoole Garda station, County Dublin. [5837/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (14 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...supplied) records the unique identifying code of the person who implants the microchip and registers the dog; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the recent seizure of 33 dogs by An Garda Síochána and another organisation were registered on the pet sellers list as billionaire bully and online adverts listed by the pet seller indicates that the dogs were registered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Treatment (Abstractions) Bill 2020 and Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...speak to those? Is it the intention to match a PPS number with a unique voter identification number on the register? I presume if we have rolling registration, it will remove the need for Garda forms to be signed. Will the witnesses confirm that? It is disappointing to see there is not an expanded provision for postal and proxy voting, as is the norm in many European jurisdictions....

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Unfortunately, St Cuthbert's Park has been plagued for years by the reckless use of quad and scrambler bikes, so much so that we had to set up a task force, led by the local authority and local gardaí, and the membership of which includes local councillors, Deputies, residents and sports club representatives. For as long as the task force has existed, senior gardaí in Clondalkin...

Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and there has been no increase in core funding or staff funding. We have also seen a knock-on effect from the very good work that has been done in the north inner city by local communities, the Garda and the HSE. This is a return to increased drug activity and drug sales in many parts of the suburbs, including in my constituency. This has also led to an increase in the involvement of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (28 Jul 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 764. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda station that covers Liscarne Dale, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [18173/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Animal Welfare (20 May 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 439. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to establish a dedicated Garda unit to exclusively deal with animal abuse. [5953/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if members of the drugs squad are no longer operating out of the Garda station in Clondalkin, Dublin 22; when the last remaining members of the drugs squad were removed from that station; the number of drugs squad personnel and the rank of each stationed in the station in each of the years 2007 to 2018 and to date in 2019;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (9 Jul 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed at both Lucan and Ronanstown Garda stations, in view of growing concerns in the Lucan area. [29299/19]