Results 1-20 of 196 for garda speaker:Bríd Smith

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...;2 billion will be transferred from the Central Fund to the infrastructure, climate and nature fund. This is a significant amount of money, which is equivalent to the total annual expenditure on An Garda Síochána. The Bill indicates that from 2025, no more than 25% of the total fund can be transferred to the Exchequer in an instance of deterioration in the economic or fiscal...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Bríd Smith: ...Expenditure and Reform if any decision has been made or if any discussions have taken place with his Department that would see the current linkage between the salaries of serving members of An Garda Síochána and retired members being altered in any way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56855/23]

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...at him and said, "Tell your auntie she has blood on her hands and that we are going to get her." I am dealing with that in my own way, through the facilities we were given here to make contact with the Garda. The people who want to tell women they do not have the right to choose and who want to stand outside clinics, hospitals and doctors' surgeries that deliver the service are not the...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...are ordinary, decent local residents who have wanted to support a candidate, and I am speaking only about my own case where they have been looking to support me. They would have been stopped by a garda at the Ballyfermot Civic Centre and told to get out because they were too close. Later that evening, they might have been at the De La Salle school and again not realised they were within...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...in accordance with subsection (6),”. This is about the warning system we talked about during the course of this Bill. In other words, if somebody commits an offence by breaching a safe access zone, a garda can give them a warning, tell them what they are doing is not on and move them on. The question arose in the course of the discussion around this of how the Garda would...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...in Cork and then does the same in Dublin. It is not about that person accessing services; it is about stopping somebody else doing so. I do not accept the comparison. I find it bizarre that the Garda does not have a way of communicating this information or that we cannot compel it to find a way. We should tell the Garda that this is in the law and it must find a way to do it.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...it. The movement outside of this House for full reproductive rights is very important. I will move on to some of the detail of the Bill. As has been mentioned, the lack of a clear system for gardaí to record warnings issued to people who move from protest to protest to avoid arrest is really not good enough. We need to find a system, perhaps a new system outside of PULSE,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: 95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to change the system in relation to the witnessing of signatures on passport applications by a member of An Garda Síochána at local Garda stations; if he is aware that the process includes the recording of witnessing gardaí’s details in a log, which is then called upon by the Passport Office for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: My question is on housing as well. A couple of weeks ago I raised with the Taoiseach the role of gardaí in illegal evictions. There was a very shocking piece on Twitter which Members may have seen. A Dr. Raheel was threatened with an illegal eviction by a very angry and violent landlord who used a chainsaw or some kind of a cutting mechanism, which looked pretty lethal, to get through...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...and Equality if he can clarify the procedure in relation to decisions by the Border Management Unit to refuse permission to board for visitors intending to come into the State, specifically if the Garda National Immigration Bureau keeps a record of such refusals; the reason for such refusals; and if he will detail the number of such refusals in the last year. [17652/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 998. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware that gardaí are informing victims of racist abuse and attacks that An Garda Síochána cannot deal with such crime because of the lack of hate-speech laws in the State; if he can clarify that the Garda is aware and trained in current legislation when dealing with attacks on people that are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (22 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...two doctors in UCC. It was widely publicised and was inspired by the bravery of Una Ring and Eve McDowell. There were ten recommendations in that report. They include training and education for gardaí and a new wording on stalking offences. Do we have a plan to train and educate gardaí on stalking and harassment? As recently as last week, I met a woman who works in Dublin 8...

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

Bríd Smith: ...the greatest housing crisis in the history of this nation. To listen to some people here, one would think that incentivising landlords was the issue and not the possibility of children turning up at Garda stations with no homes to go to and no roofs over their heads. We are asking only one thing tonight. It is not how many more schemes we should try to develop to lure landlords,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...could be 100 m away from the entrance to it and still be outside a window of a room where a woman might be receiving or a doctor might be providing care. I note that when the witnesses from the Garda were here they had a real problem with the definition, yet the definition in the Electoral Act is very clear. I have contested many elections, as every other member in this room has, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...other than a pro-life protest because I do not think it is fair to us. I want to talk about the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act. I do not know from her submission whether Ms McMahon thinks An Garda Síochána needs more powers to search and go into people's homes or whatever. I am not clear about that. Perhaps she could elaborate. Under the Criminal Justice (Public Order)...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: Okay, I will come back to Dr. McNamara on two points and then I will stop. My point with regard to the curtilage is that members of the Garda do not have a problem. The ordinary garda on the beat does not have a problem about the curtilage around a polling station. They are immediately on top of people who go over the 50 m limit. Members of the Garda understand what the curtilage is in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...are taking something brand new and we must be terribly careful about it because it is so complex. It is not that complex. Once we get the co-operation of all the players involved, especially An Garda Síochána, it should not be a complex matter. We already have, for example, laws like the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994, where gardaí can go up to people and tell...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...the Central Bank, etc. Is it not high time that the State found a process by which to investigate alleged inappropriate carry-on with corporate dealings or the potential of white-collar crime? Is the Garda not interested this? Is corporate enforcement not the first place we should be going to? Can the DPP look at it? Rather than spending years and millions of euro on investigations of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (11 Oct 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...she will provide an update on the provision of a women's refuge centre in Carlow; the immediate supports that will be provided to women seeking refuge in Carlow given the latest report released by An Garda Síochána, which showed that half of all murders in Ireland in 2021 were linked to domestic violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49608/22]

Proposal for a Directive on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: Motion (21 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...of the nine counties that has no refuge. According to Councillor Wallace's figures, in the first nine months of 2021 it was revealed that 500 incidents of domestic violence were reported to the Garda in Carlow and Kilkenny. While there is a refuge in Kilkenny, it is totally inadequate as we can see from those figures. That can be repeated throughout the country. Based on the 2015...