Results 1-20 of 123 for garda speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...was shot five times, twice in the back. His grieving family deserve answers on how their son was killed. Will the Minister agree the GSOC report is a matter of great public importance about how Garda killings are investigated, about how people can get answers on what happened, and is a matter of real public importance about how mental health crises, which George Nkencho was going...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: George Nkencho was shot dead by an armed garda in his family's front garden on 30 December 2020. He was shot five times - twice in the back. Yesterday, we learnt that the garda who shot him will not stand trial. George's grieving mother, his sisters and brothers, a working class migrant family, will now have to fight a long and hard battle for justice - even for basic information - as many...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: 1676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Garda vetting is required for Youthreach students undertaking work placements/experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13623/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (20 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: 826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to publish the waiting times for the renewal of IRP cards at the immigration office in Anglesea Street Garda station, Cork; if she will consider measures to speed up renewal applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12068/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: ...receive a UK seafarers transit visa. However, once they landed in Belfast, they were put working illegally on an Irish flagged vessel. The ITF has reported these and other matters this morning to An Garda Síochána, the Workplace Relations Commission, the Marine Survey Office and the Marine Casualty Investigation Board. However, the vessel owner is attempting to send the four...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Mick Barry: ...being targeted are the temporary homes of asylum seekers, one of the most vulnerable groups in society. A backbench Government TD, Deputy Costello of the Green Party, said recently that An Garda Síochána is not taking the series of arson attacks around the country seriously enough. He questioned whether the attacks were merely the actions of so-called lone wolves. I agree with...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Mick Barry: ...the mental health of a person. What happens before a person ends up in the court? He or she has been stopped and searched. We do not know how many people have been stopped and searched in any given year. The Garda does not make a log of all the searches that take place. The Central Statistics Office has criticised the quality of the data that the Garda has in these instances....

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: Referring to the riots, the Garda Commissioner said, "But we could not have anticipated that in response to a terrible crime, the stabbing of schoolchildren and their teacher, that this would be the response". For a casual observer of Ireland's far right that would be a naive statement. For a Garda Commissioner it is absolutely astounding. Ireland's racist and fascist extremists, and their...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: ...the manner in which journalists, including those from the national broadcaster RTE, portrayed our family’s arduous struggle for justice. The impact of inaccurate reporting fuelled by leaks from An Garda Síochána, continues [not just in the immediate aftermath, although that was a particular case in point] to shape the prevailing narrative. Those are very important...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 May 2023)

Mick Barry: 542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of suspected crimes reported to each Garda station in the Cork city area for 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26220/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2023)

Mick Barry: Why did gardaí allow the organisers of anti-asylum seeker roadblocks in County Clare go onto buses, count the number of asylum seekers leaving the area and count the number of asylum seekers coming back into the area, and film vulnerable people without their permission? Why did gardaí fail to prevent the burning of the tents and possessions of asylum seekers at Sandwith Street,...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Could I have clarification? Is the Garda obliged to take in a family with children, or-----

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Is the Garda obliged-----

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...there for? With 17 out of 31 local authorities saying they are full, undoubtedly some people who will go to homeless services will not be accommodated. Where do they go? There has been talk of Garda stations. What happens in such an eventuality? Has an instruction been given to gardaí to accommodate people in those circumstances? Is is it up to the superintendent on a...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...up. This issue is not going to go away. It is going to drag on and re-emerge. We are going to see a situation long before the summertime of families, including those with children, presenting to Garda stations and asking to be put up for the night as they have nowhere to go. I want to make three points about this. First, I appeal to people who are faced with eviction into...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...to this House that the emergency accommodation services will be able to cope? If they are not and people are turned away, what are they expected to do? Would the Taoiseach advise them to go to a Garda station? What would his advice be in that situation? The Cabinet made a reckless decision this morning. It is an act of free market extremism. We are inevitably going to have a record...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: We could see a situation by the summer whereby people will be presenting to Garda stations pleading for a place for themselves and their children to stay overnight.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: ...of people took to the streets on Saturday to say that racism and fascism are not wanted in this country. It was an important start to building the militant anti-racist movement we need. Why did gardaí harass anti-racist campaigners as the march began to assemble in Parnell Square? Why were attempts made to prevent members of the Socialist Party handing out placards? Those placards...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: I am glad to see the Minister opposing, in effect, the position being argued by the Tánaiste. I want to make some points about tasers because this is part of the debate now. The Garda Representative Association, GRA, has supported arming gardaí with tasers. That would be a step in the wrong direction. In the United States, more than 1,000 people have been killed by police, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: I might come back some other day to discuss the question of body cameras. I want to use my remaining time to ask about the killing of George Nkencho by gardaí two years ago now. George's family were given to understand by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, that every attempt would be made to complete that investigation within a year of the killing, which would...