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Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: .... It is not entirely in her Department but the job seeker part of it is and is under this schedule. The Minister for public expenditure comes into it as well, but it relates to members of An Garda Síochána who joined the force after 1995. They do not retire on the same pension as gardaí who joined prior to 1995. They can make up the difference but they have to go on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: The Road Safety Authority is responsible for compiling official statistics on road traffic accidents. It receives collision data from An Garda Síochána and produces official statistics to help to develop evidence-based road safety interventions. The statistics it produces in respect of accidents detail the time the accident occurred, the day of the week on which it occurred, the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2023)

Paddy Burke: .... There are no proper forms to do so. The HSE and the Department of Education do not take responsibility for giving people the forms. There are no forms in the embassies around the world. The Garda states it is not its problem. However, there is quite clearly a problem in this regard. I ask the Leader to bring this to the attention of the Government. There should be a standard form...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Motion (26 Apr 2021)

Paddy Burke: ...one post office in a large chunk of central Mayo. They cannot survive because neither the population nor the business is there. The area I come from had two shops, a post office, two pubs and a Garda barracks. Now there is no shop, no Garda barracks, no post office and one pub. That is not uncommon in large areas throughout the length and breadth of the country. Many proposals have...

Seanad: Mental Health and Covid-19: Statements (12 Feb 2021)

Paddy Burke: ...holding a stick in their hands to hit a ball. This is an area that the Government should consider in terms of 5 March. One of the big areas that concerns mental health is drugs. I compliment the Garda on taking the step to perform drug tests at work. The Government should consider introducing drug testing in the workforce. There are countries that have drug testing in the workforce,...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...in people's homes. Who pays the fine if a number of people have rooms in a house? Is it one person, three or four persons or is each individually responsible for paying if a fine is issued by the Garda Síochána?

Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2020)

Paddy Burke: This section proposes a new section 27A(5) of the 1994 Act to provide that "A general partner of an investment limited partnership shall provide any member of the Garda Síochána, the Revenue Commissioners, a competent authority or the Criminal Assets Bureau with timely access". Does that mean that any member of the Garda who may be nosey or whatever might decide to see who is on...

Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2020)

Paddy Burke: I thank the Minister of State for his clarification. The Bill should stipulate the area of the Garda concerned because it currently refers to "any member of the Garda Síochána".

Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...communicate to say they must go for essential work or to relay the travel reason? Do they give the reason to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection or would they go to a local Garda station? How should they communicate the reason so the pandemic unemployment payment is not cut? Will the Minister clarify what they should do, where they should go and what notice they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Paddy Burke: Finally, I suppose forgery, which is a separate matter, is fraud as well. Are there many cases of forgery? How do they progress to the courts or how does the Garda follow up on cases of forgery?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Paddy Burke: ...a forged €50 note. When the customer tried to deposit it into another account through the machine, it rejected the note. I suppose the customer must go through a rigmarole of reporting to the Garda and to the bank. At the end of the day, would the bank not take responsibility for that? Even though its machine gave out the money, the bank refused to allow it to be deposited in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Paddy Burke: ...to vote. It should be made easier for them to register to get a postal vote. It should also be made a lot easier for people not registered to vote to do so, besides having to go to the local Garda station. In some cases, people who are sick must go to the doctor. A lot of things can be done to make it much easier for many people to vote in elections. During the meetings of the Seanad...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Paddy Burke: ...the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, wishing his constituents a happy Christmas. Issues have been raised by the Road Safety Authority as to whether it is safe or not. The Garda say that it is safe but we need a report on what is safe and what is not safe in how those Christmas sleighs are displayed. I appeal to the Minister because the sleigh displays the Mayo...

Seanad: Electoral Commission: Statements (27 Sep 2018)

Paddy Burke: ...the time to do this and, in fairness, they responded. The electoral register is ad hocin nature because many people contribute to how it is formed. There are rate or rent collectors, political parties, gardaí and ordinary citizens involved. In the long run, it is left up to people to sign on. In some cases, this can be quite cumbersome because one has to go to a Garda station which...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)

Paddy Burke: ...pundit and journalist, Mr. Joe Brolly, on raising the very serious issue regarding Mr. Peadar Heffron, who was the first Catholic to sign up to the PSNI. A PSNI team played against a team from An Garda Síochána in Dublin behind closed doors. Prior to or not long after that game, a team from the PSNI played a team from the Oireachtas, which included former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2017)

Paddy Burke: Much has been said about how the Garda Síochána has conducted its business in recent years. To give credit where it is due, I congratulate it on how it has combatted crime in recent months and the success it has had in breaking the drug gangs in this country.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2017)

Paddy Burke: The way it has conducted itself over recent months is outstanding and I congratulate it. The public should not be afraid to go to the Garda Síochána. Gardaí are the only people we can turn to in our hour of need when there are break-ins, drug crime and so forth. The more people go to them and the more information they have, the better.

Seanad: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Jul 2017)

Paddy Burke: ...was on a different pay level to a nurse in Sligo, Galway or Letterkenny, and there were many different types of scenarios within the organisation.Senator McDowell said the same thing occurred in the Army and Garda, but they got over that. I hope it will be possible to get over all those obligations as well with this legislation and that we will not have another PPARS situation on our...

Seanad: Mid-term Capital Review and Public Service Pay Commission Report: Statements (30 May 2017)

Paddy Burke: ...an input into it, and that the public should also have its say. It was interesting to listen to Senator McDowell's comments on public sector pay and the amount of applicants for positions in An Garda Síochána and the Army. They have great confidence in the sector and they would like to work in the public sector. I have great time for public sector officials and it is only...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: ...was likewise discriminated against because he is the only officeholder who is not invited to be seated in the ard chomhairle in Croke Park on all-Ireland final day, along with all the Ministers, Ministers of State, Garda and Army officials. All the other arms of State are represented there on these occasions but not the Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann. This Bill and the...