Results 1-20 of 110 for garda speaker:Neale Richmond

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (22 Feb 2024)

Neale Richmond: ...they have the relevant information they need to inform and respond to service provision locally. This includes services for social welfare, health, education, transport, justice, and the HSE, An Garda Síochána, the local integration teams and local development office. As part of the Budget 2024, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Catherine...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: ...from the employment permits unit. It can also carry out inspections for other reasons, for example, if it receives a complaint through the WRC call centre, an anonymous tip-off, a request from An Garda or a representation from a Member of the Oireachtas. In addition, the Minister has the power to refuse to process an employment permit application where the applicant has been prosecuted...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: ...in coordinating the response to repair the reputational and physical damage to our capital city. The Government is committed to building stronger, safer communities in Dublin – and strengthening An Garda Síochána is at the core of that. We will continue to provide An Garda Síochána with the resources it needs to ensure communities around Ireland are safe...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...I am proud of Deputy McEntee as the Minister for Justice. I am proud of her record. I am proud of my party's political tradition going back to the foundation of the State and the foundation of An Garda Síochána and I hope my political record and my party's political tradition does not haunt families and communities around this State, north, south, east, west, to this day.

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...scarred a community and we saw anarchy from thugs, whipped up by the far right, on our capital’s main thoroughfare through Thursday night. We saw businesses and public vehicles destroyed and An Garda Síochána attacked. No one should ever feel scared to go to work and we saw on Thursday night workers sheltering in stockrooms and basements and having to be escorted from...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (7 Nov 2023)

Neale Richmond: ..., there are no plans to merge the relevant legislative responsibilities under the jurisdiction of a single Government Department. The parties to the process – my Department, the Department of Justice, the Garda National Immigration Bureau and the Department of Social Protection – will retain responsibility over their respective areas.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Relations Commission (11 May 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...continuing or persistent events of non-compliance. These instruments include criminal prosecution, compliance notices and fixed penalty notices. Inspectors may be accompanied by members of An Garda Síochána or other inspectors where necessary. In 2022, 103 inspections were carried out with An Garda Síochána, 113 joint inspections with officers of the Department of...

Appointment to the Policing Authority: Motion (25 Apr 2023)

Neale Richmond: I move: That Dáil Éireann recommends, pursuant to section 62C(7) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, that Anthony Harbinson be appointed by the Government to be a member of the Policing Authority.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Antisocial Behaviour (23 Mar 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...going to speak again. After speaking to and engaging with retailers and representatives such as Ms Tara Buckley of RGDATA, I am aware that the main way they want to be kept safe is by having more gardaí on the ground, on the streets in our community and not trapped behind a desk in a Garda station. That is why, as a Government, we are prioritising high visibility policing as shown...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Antisocial Behaviour (23 Mar 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...briefly by thanking the Senator once again for raising this point and underlining the fact that I absolutely fundamentally agree with him, both in terms of his comments in relation to additional Garda resources but crucially, additional resources for the Courts Service. That is why I welcome the announcement by the Minister, Deputy Harris, of the recruitment of more judges. That only...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Trafficking (21 Mar 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...(most recently in 2022 and additional training will be provided on an ongoing basis as required). However, where this arises, the WRC Inspection and Enforcement Services will refer the matter to An Garda Siochána as potential human trafficking cases.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (21 Mar 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...is not a residence permission, the applicant must interact with the Department of Justice in regard to immigration permissions. In order to be lawfully resident in the State, registration with the Garda National Immigration Bureau is required. The Department examines a number of criteria when assessing Critical Skills Employment Permit applications including a job offer from a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Nov 2022)

Neale Richmond: ...Government doing, in partnership with the authorities in the United Kingdom and in Northern Ireland, despite the impasse, to ensure that all efforts are made to allow for co-ordination between An Garda Síochána, the PSNI and all other State agencies and to ensure that dissident terrorist groups and all other organised crime groups are not allowed to continue their reigns of...

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)

Neale Richmond: ...- this is not directed to the Minister, Deputy McEntee, but more to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, or whomever holds that office in due course - relates to the fact that in 2021, An Garda Síochána, not the Criminal Assets Bureau, seized €16 million in cash from criminals. I appreciate that the pandemic allowed for a level of...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Neale Richmond: ...directly strengthened by the legislation but I would like to raise the following matter first. This is something I have raised with the Minister during the last two budgetary cycles, namely resources for An Garda Síochána to tackle and monitor things online. That does not just come down to hate speech. We have subversive organisations and criminal entities organising online...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: ..., we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good when it comes to this budget because much is being done for every aspect of society. I am extremely enthused about the commitment to recruit 1,000 extra members of An Garda Síochána and 400-odd extra civilian staff. That is vitally important to the aims of getting gardaí out on the street, on the beat and in our...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Neale Richmond: Over the past six years more than €41 million has been returned to the State through cash and assets seized by An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau. It is welcome that the Community Safety Innovation Fund is using that cash to plough into communities. Does the Minister agree that the budget next week must drastically increase this fund from €2 million...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (5 Jul 2022)

Neale Richmond: ...that perhaps this could be viewed as a pilot scheme? While the substantial amount of funding involved is very welcome, it is still considerably less than the amount of cash being seized by An Garda Síochána in any year of the past decade, not to mention the amount of cash seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau, as referred to by Deputy Carey. The Minister will be aware that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

Neale Richmond: I am grateful to the Minister for that update and the specific numbers in her response. I was very lucky to attend the centenary celebrations of An Garda Síochána in my local Garda station in Stepaside in the past few days. Having spoken with current and former members of An Garda Síochána who had been stationed at that station, as well as others, there are two issues...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

Neale Richmond: I appreciate that. While Covid got in the way of many of the operational aspects of reform, in many ways it also showed potential positives for an Garda Síochána, not just with on-the-beat policing but also with smart policing. We will hopefully have 15,000 gardaí in due course. Leading up to the budget discussion, will the Minister ensure those gardaí will have the...