Results 1-20 of 86 for garda speaker:Shane Cassells

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the acting Garda Commissioner and wish him well in his role. It was certainly one of the shortest opening statements we are likely to get in the Committee of Public Accounts. It is hugely regrettable that the acting Garda Commissioner has taken the decision not to honour the commitment to release the report into the reopening of Garda stations. The key point is the fact it will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: No. We operate the scheme in Navan, not the Garda. The Garda has a live feed from it, but the Garda is not the data controller.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the Garda Commissioner and her team back to the committee. I will focus on the Commissioner's opening statement and the number of gardaí because in all these debates the issue of gardaí numbers on our streets is sometimes overlooked. Is the Garda on course to meet the target it has set of increasing Garda numbers to 21,000 by 2021.?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Shane Cassells: On a technical point, there is a difference between a data controller and data operator and where the onus on the work output lies. In our case, the Garda is the data operator. It is the gardaí who do all the work. We want that role to be performed by the professionals, in other words, An Garda Síochána. The Garda does all of the work.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: I appreciate that, but the journalists are capturing the public attitude. The Garda Commissioner spoke to Deputies Kelly and MacSharry about the money being spent on PR and making sure that the Garda is not insular. However, the journalists in these counties are capturing the public attitude. Paul Williams is doing so on his roadshow. Is the Garda gathering that information and directing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (28 Sep 2016)

Shane Cassells: 41. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda reservists in the Meath Garda division. [27397/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (17 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: 79. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in County Meath in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16573/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Retirements (24 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda retirements from each Garda station in County Meath in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18088/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Accommodation (5 Jul 2018)

Shane Cassells: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a divisional Garda headquarters in County Meath will be provided in collaboration with the management of An Garda Síochána in view of a request by the chief superintendent in County Meath for same. [29456/18]

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (5 Dec 2017)

Shane Cassells: 44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in County Meath as of 1 November 2017; the number of community gardaí in the division; and the number of Garda Reserve members and new recruits assigned to the division since recruitment resumed in 2014. [51660/17]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: The report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland was published yesterday and, along with the appointment of a new Garda Commissioner, we hope that it will herald a new dawn for policing in Ireland. However, the Garda needs resources, as the Minister well knows, and gardaí are still forced to work in substandard conditions, nowhere more so than in County Meath. The...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...around the head with a glass vase by thugs. The Mayor of Navan, Councillor Tommy Reilly, who is 73 years of age, had to intervene to save his son in that incident. What is shocking is that a Garda car arrived at the scene, spoke to the thugs and then drove off. It sparked a national debate on the front covers of all the national newspapers and on the Joe Duffy show. It is a sad state...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Shane Cassells: It is interesting because the acting Garda Commissioner mentioned the census and populations trends. I am in a county of 200,000 people where crime is up by 59%. I do not have the level of intelligence afforded by the crime reports the acting Garda Commissioner has but I have the very basic statistics that show that the closure of stations and the reduction of personnel are obviously having...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: Regarding Operation Thor, the traffic corps and the transport element, is An Garda Síochána trying to increase and duplicate the mobile force? Again, in my area members of the traffic corps were taken from north Meath and redeployed in south Meath, which means that one part of the county has been left without an available traffic corps. I do not want the witnesses to focus on...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Shane Cassells: ...and causing disrespect. I mean that honestly and I will use my time to address comments properly. I sincerely hold the view that for Sinn Féin to speak about public servants, in particular the Garda Síochána, is the height of hypocrisy, given Deputy O'Reilly's failure to condemn the killing of members of the Garda Síochána and given that members of her...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...we are discussing have a detrimental effect on such meetings. The broader ramification of this discussion is that it undermines our efforts when we attend public meetings to discuss policing. Garda stations in Oldcastle and Athboy in north County Meath and others in south County Meath have been closed or are only partially open. When nonsense such as this comes before us, it undermines...

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Tackling Fuel Laundering
Chapter 15 - Taxpayer Compliance
2015 Revenue Accounts (13 Oct 2016)

Shane Cassells: ...to crack down on fuel laundering and they have clearly been successful, as in Louth the case numbers have dropped from 239 to 69 and from 186 to 11 in Monaghan. In liaising with agencies such as the Garda, are the Revenue Commissioners getting to the point of negating the problem? Is there a criminal aspect lying in the long grass? I am sure there is regular contact between the...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (5 Dec 2017)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Minister for his response. This is the third occasion in the past month on which I have raised directly with him the issue of garda numbers and crime-related matters in County Meath. I fully appreciate that in our earlier exchanges, the Minister dealt with the macro issue of Garda resources on a national level. I will continue, however, to press the case for Meath for the...

Rural Crime: Motion (21 Nov 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...superintendent, Mr. Fergus Healy, spoke at a public meeting of concerned citizens in Trim last month. I have echoed his words to the Minister before. He stated Meath has the lowest proportion of gardaí per capita in the country, with one garda for every 661 persons. In sharp contrast, Sligo-Leitrim has one garda for every 327. The deployment of an additional 22 gardaí in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...built. I pass Kevin Street every morning and it is quite an impressive building. However, the issue is what people do in that building. People listening to this discussion are interested in the Garda's style of policing and what that means. I have attended all the JPC meetings in my home county for over a decade both as a councillor and as a Deputy. There is a fear among the...