Results 1-20 of 66 for garda speaker:Lorraine Clifford-Lee

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Subsection (2) states: The Garda Commissioner shall, as soon as practicable after he or she forms the opinion that any actions, proposed actions, omissions or proposed omissions by him or her will have the effect of An Garda Síochána exceeding the resources available. Would it not be advisable to apply a specific timeframe rather than use the term “as soon as...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I wanted to speak about the capital plan. As many of my colleagues have outlined, the issue of Garda stations is of great importance to us all across the country. My colleague, Senator Chambers, referred to how the rural areas are being left behind. They feel that the resources are being allocated to the bigger urban areas. I am in one of those bigger urban areas, namely, the greater...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: ...There have been a number of issues over the years of various Government bodies and different organisations not publishing reports in the two languages. There have been particular issues within An Garda Síochána and the use of Irish and not providing gardaí who can serve the Irish-speaking community both within and outside the Gaeltacht areas.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Court Accommodation (8 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: ...by 2026 at the latest. In June 2022, a preliminary business case was approved by the Government with the project to be delivered as part of a public-private partnership bundled to include Garda stations in Clonmel and Macroom. That was a welcome step forward. I put down a Commencement matter in October 2022, just over a year ago, and the Minister, Deputy McEntee told me the project was...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Court Accommodation (8 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: ...I know it is not his Department - but there was absolutely nothing in that that we did not know. I want to know why the projects were decoupled. When was that decision made? We all know the two Garda stations were decoupled. Why was that done? Why did the Minister say in October 2022 that the projects were proceeding as normal and then a couple of months later, they were decoupled...

Seanad: Crime and Policing: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: ...this bad piece of news was slipped out and that actually it was not going to be delivered and nothing would be done during the lifetime of the Government. Projects relating to Clonmel and Mallow Garda stations, which had been in a bundle with the Hammond Lane project, had been decoupled and are going ahead. We were not given any information about what the holdup was, what the timeline was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Is An Garda Síochána ever called?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Is a signal from hospital leadership needed to someone like Ms Chambers who is in a senior position in the emergency department that she is required or leadership wants her to call the Garda in such situations? It that the type of leadership that is needed?

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Jan 2022)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: ...framework in order that their efforts do not go to waste and good legislation is passed and implemented. As Senator Chambers pointed out, a number of steps will have to be put in place for the Garda so that gardaí understand how the victims of this particular crime should be dealt with. This legislation is an important step on the road to solving the issue of violence against...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga: An Garda Síochána (12 May 2021)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: ...scaipthe ar fud na tíre. Tá gá ann seirbhísí a chur ar fáil do lucht labhartha na Gaeilge taobh amuigh de na ceantair Ghaeltachta. Luadh an sruth Gaeilge atá ar siúl sa Gharda faoi láthair. Dúradh go mbeidh feachtas ar siúl an bhliain seo chugainn maidir leis an sruth sin. An bhfuil An Garda Síochána ag dul isteach go...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga: An Garda Síochána (12 May 2021)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Tá cúpla ceist eile agam maidir leis an earcaíocht. Is teip iomlán é an sruth Gaeilge dar leis na figiúirí a thug an Coimisinéir dúinn. As 600 garda níl ach triúir ag teacht amach ón Teampall Mór a bhfuil Gaeilge acu. Is teip iomlán é. An bhfuil náire ar an gCoimisinéir maidir leis na figiúirí...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga: An Garda Síochána (12 May 2021)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Gabh mo leithscéal ach caithfidh An Garda Síochána dul i ngleic leis an bhfadhb sin. Caithfear na deiseanna a chur in iúl do dhaltaí agus daoine le caighdeán áirithe Gaeilge a mhealladh isteach. Theip ar an nGarda go hiomlán maidir leis an riachtanas agus maidir leis na dualgais atá aige. Níl siad á gcomhlíonadh. Caithfidh...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga: An Garda Síochána (12 May 2021)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Tá ceist bheag amháin agam. Tá easpa tithíochta i gceantair Ghaeltachta áirithe. An dtugann An Garda Síochána aon chabhair do na gardaí atá ag dul ar ais go dtí na ceantair sin chun teach a fháil? Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil fadhbanna ann i nGaeltachtaí áirithe cosúil leis An Rinn agus An Seanphobal thíos i bPort...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Garda Stations (10 Dec 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: The Minister of State, Deputy Moran, is very welcome. We are here to talk about Rush Garda station once again. I have been raising this matter constantly over the past couple of years. Rush is a town in north County Dublin and it has a population of approximately 10,000. It is growing rapidly. Its Garda station was closed in early 2012, causing great disappointment and shock among the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...domestic homicides have outpaced gangland murders by almost 2:1 in recent years, they have generated far less commentary, far less media coverage and far less attention than gangland crime. The Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, said at the weekend that gardaí respond to approximately 30,000 domestic incident calls each year. This equates to between 500 and 600 such calls each week....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I thank the Commissioner, Mr. Drew Harris and his colleagues for coming before us today. I wish to raise the issue of the reopening of Rush Garda station, which was announced two and a half years ago, following a review of the closure of Garda stations by the previous Government. It was one of a number of Garda stations where the proposed reopening was announced two and a half years ago. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: It is now 18 September. Would it be unusual that the Garda Síochána has not received any correspondence, so that it can forward plan the staffing arrangement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: Is it the case that as far as Mr. Nugent is concerned it is on schedule to be handed over to the Garda Síochána at the end of September? The handing over of the Garda station is one thing but as Mr. Nugent said he will have to equip the Garda station. The people in Rush are very concerned about the staffing level in the station. It is one thing opening a building but we need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...population in Rush and in the surrounding areas and much of the housing needs of Dublin is actually being facilitated in north County Dublin, so the population is rapidly expanding. We need extra Garda resources.