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

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2021)

Mick Barry: Is the Taoiseach aware that the garda who fired the shot that killed George Nkencho has not been suspended from An Garda Síochána pending investigation and, it would seem, has not yet been interviewed by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC?

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Former Garda press officer, Superintendent Dave Taylor, claims that he sent a text to the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, some years ago in which he told her that a journalist had interviewed a person making allegations against Maurice McCabe. Superintendent Taylor claims Commissioner O'Sullivan sent a one-word reply, "Perfect." We are told now that Commissioner...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: I have a question and I will soon come to it. Could the Tánaiste comment on the appalling vista that now opens up regarding the role of the Garda Síochána in this affair? The jury has just thrown out a case that was based on 180 witness statements from members of the Garda Síochána, three of whom – a chief superintendent, an inspector and a sergeant –...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: There has been one scandal after another: Maurice McCabe, John Wilson, Dave Taylor, Nicky Keogh, Keith Harrison, the bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, the tapping of calls from Garda stations and now the falsification of Garda records on an industrial scale across the country. It underlines the strength of the socialist demand that there be a sharp break...

Justice Issues: Statements (28 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: Anyone who has been listening to the former Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, in recent days would get the impression that when she got sight of the fact that the Garda Commissioner was taking an adversarial approach to Maurice McCabe, she wanted to intervene to help the whistleblower but she was legally forbidden to do so. That is the impression anyone would have. I am really struck by the...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: Yesterday, while arguing that she should stay in the top job while the investigation goes on, the Garda Commissioner said we have to keep the lights on while we are rewiring the house. It is an interesting analogy. The people who should be the keyholders of the house, the people of Ireland, have lost all faith in the chief electrician and believe she should be given the sack. This may well...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: A story in today's edition of The Irish Times tells us that more than 3,000 999 calls reporting domestic violence were cancelled by the Garda in 2019 and 2020. There is talk of disciplinary action. Would the Tánaiste agree that the number of cancelled calls speaks to something more than sloppy policing by particular members of the Garda? At best, it speaks to me of a failure on the...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (9 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: The Garda Representative Association and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors are to have statutory access to the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court. Will the Department of Defence extend the same rights to soldiers and organisations such as PDFORRA and RACO?

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (9 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in view of indications that the Garda Representative Association and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors will have statutory access to the same statutory industrial relations fora as other trade unions, his Department will extend these same rights to PDFORRA and RACO. [33821/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Inquiry (15 May 2018)

Mick Barry: 301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a file on the Garda investigation into the circumstances of person (details supplied) exists, either an original or the copy sent to the Coroner's inquest; if so, the statements that were collected by An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21032/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: My question is about the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill. We were told the aim of this Bill is to amend the 1990 Act to give the Garda representative associations access to the State's industrial relations institutions. Yesterday, however, we read about a working group report produced in advance of the legislation, which advises against trade union status. Interestingly, the report...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Mick Barry: ...for dedicated legislation to cover trafficking for labour exploitation. I will give a recent example. I have seen correspondence between the International Transport Workers' Federation and the Garda relating to a case where fishers from Ghana were issued with contracts suggesting they would be working in the UK before being put working illegally in highly exploitative conditions on an...

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...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: I understand that concessions have been won by the Garda, which will lead to amendments to the Garda Síochána Act and-or the industrial relations legislation to specifically permit the Garda to access the industrial relations fora of the State, and to affiliate to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. My question is whether similar amendments can be introduced into the Defence Forces...

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....

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Mick Barry: I will be brief. In 2014, the Council of Europe upheld an earlier ruling that members of An Garda Síochána should be permitted to strike and participate in trade union activity. In our view, such human rights legislation should also permit gardaí to refuse to be used against trade union and community campaigns such as we saw with the water charges campaign. Does the...

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...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2021)

Mick Barry: ...by the chairperson of GSOC to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, dated 22 January refers to the challenge faced by an oversight body with fewer than 40 investigators in dealing with a Garda service of approximately 15,000 members? The under-resourcing of GSOC and the glacial pace of the Nkencho investigation raised the spectre that the murder of a gangland boss might be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: ...out what might have been the first large-scale survey of Ireland's black and ethnic minority communities. Some 54% polled said that they did not feel confident to report a racist incident to a garda. Twenty years on, how much has changed? The recent survey by Youth Against Racism and Inequality interviewed people of colour and Travellers. Some 35% said they had the experience of being...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: ...worker; if driver instructors will be deemed to have breached the regulations if they unknowingly bring a non-essential worker to a driver test; if the RSA has a policy on rebooking tests if a garda stops a person en route to a test and that person is then is unable to satisfy the garda that he or she is an essential worker and is requested to return home; and if he will make a statement...