Results 1-20 of 197 for garda speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Responsibilities (24 Mar 2021)

Bríd Smith: 1272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Deputy Humphreys will receive a Garda driven car and Garda security during her period as temporary Minister for Justice; if she will receive additional advisory staff for the six months in this extra role; if she received briefings from An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces or other security details in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: In fairness, most of the focus so far has been on Taylor and Callinan. Far more needs to be done for public accountability as regards the actions of gardaí at all ranks and all levels. My confidence in the new Garda Commissioner Drew Harris was fairly shaky in the beginning given his record in dealing with the historical legacy in Northern Ireland but also given that his first public...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The justice and crime section of the programme for Government states that the Government "will continue to support ... the enhanced role of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) in providing independent oversight of complaints made against members of the Garda Síochána". I do not know if the Taoiseach watched "Prime Time" last night, which covered an...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...support for victim groups representing victims of the violence in Northern Ireland and to promote reconciliation. Can the Tánaiste please comment on the appointment of Mr. Drew Harris as the Garda Commissioner given the Truth and Reconciliation Platform has described it as a massive step backwards and a hammer blow to victims and survivors of British security services in collusion...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...for pulling together various strands of all the Departments during the Covid-19 pandemic. I am sure the process has been very challenging. Where in the name of God did the general scheme of the Garda Síochána powers Bill, published on Monday by the Minister for Justice, Deputy Heather Humphreys, come from? It was described by one legal academic as a land grab by the Department...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...this situation has raised. The Minister is really arguing in her statement that the Government is about to close the stable door now that the horse has bolted. I will ask about the role of An Garda Síochána. It is usual practice for gardaí to question witnesses and take statements. They should have done so in respect of the EY auditors, who were questioned by Mr....

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.

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...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Bríd Smith: Sixteen years ago today a young man called Terence Wheelock walked into Store Street Garda station but he never walked out. Three months later he died, having been in a coma due to the injuries he received while in custody. GSOC investigated this killing and concluded that no problems were found. GSOC is currently investigating the killing of George Nkencho and I can predict what its...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Commissioner Appointment (4 Jul 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...in a sectarian attack. They are here because they head up a group known as the Truth and Reconciliation Platform. To my knowledge, the only real condemnation of the appointment of Drew Harris as Garda Commissioner was made by Stephen Travers who survived the Miami Showband massacre. Mr. Travers condemned the appointment for all the right reasons and we all heard him on "Morning Ireland"...

Appointment of Member and Chair of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...of GSOC. The first complainant to GSOC - I cannot remember the year - was Deputy Gino Kenny. He was not a Deputy then. We had RTÉ footage of him being thrown off a bridge in Bellanaboy by six gardaí, illegally and violently, at a Shell to Sea protest. I queued up with him that morning and his complaint was thrown out, investigated by gardaí themselves. The Minister said...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (24 May 2016)

Bríd Smith: 87. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to investigate and expedite a Garda Síochána clearance query (details supplied). [11699/16]

Other Questions: Commissions of Inquiry (16 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality whether she will consider an independent public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) and the subsequent Garda actions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40437/16]

Other Questions: National Parks and Wildlife Service (7 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: Has a request been made to An Garda Síochána or any outside body with regard to weapons and ammunition held by the National Parks and Wildlife Service? Will the Minister of State ensure any report emanating from such an investigation will be made available to the public?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (12 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will commission a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) and the Garda investigation and subsequent prosecution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32970/17]