Results 1-20 of 99 for garda speaker:Gerry Horkan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Gerry Horkan: What is the position regarding the Garda fraud unit? When the Minister of State attended an earlier meeting of this committee, he said he did not want gardaí being taken away from an investigation into real crime to deal with fraud. We have established that fraud is real crime. I am not saying that we should stop members of the Garda investigating gangland murders and deploy them to...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...for his own sake, that of his party and indeed, of the country, because it is to everyone's benefit that he does well. A number of Senators have already raised the matter of the reopening of Stepaside Garda station. It should be noted that the Dublin Rathdown constituency, where I live, only has a single operational Garda station. It is a three-seat constituency with 65,000 houses but...

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

Gerry Horkan: I will just tease this out a little more. If an insurance company is aware of these things and does not bring that information to An Garda Síochána, is that company guilty of an offence? I am referring to the company not bringing the information to An Garda Síochána and allowing it to make a judgment concerning how far to go with a complaint. If an insurance company has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: ...databases in the country that exist or that co-ordinate data run through Insurance Ireland? I refer to the information on penalty points. Please forgive me but I would have thought there was some Garda database of penalty points where the penalty points are recorded by the Garda and presumably by the GoSafe cameras and it goes into a State database to which the witnesses get access or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: In the absence of a Garda Commissioner being appointed would it not be perfectly reasonable for the Minister for Justice and Equality to ask the acting Garda Commissioner?

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

Gerry Horkan: I have a couple of points. We have touched on how the level of fraud is low in terms of what is referred to the Garda. What percentage of the total number of cases with which the Garda deals or investigates on a yearly basis relates to insurance fraud?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: All kinds of things turned up during Covid. The Garda discovered all kinds of nefarious activity that it would not normally find because the volume of traffic was low. Has the Garda seen a difference in behaviour coming out of Covid and behaviour pre Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...not present earlier, I have read all of their opening statements. I thank them all for being here so late on a Thursday evening. I attended a nice event this morning to celebrate 100 years of the Garda. It was hosted in, of all places, the famous Stepaside Garda station and the former Minister for Transport even turned up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...eejit at UCD and services were being pulled out after a certain time. People got real very quickly about what they win versus what they lose. I will make a couple of very small points. On the Garda response time, when drivers have to press the button or something is happening they feel needs a Garda response, how does that-----

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: As somebody whose grandfather was a garda for almost all of his career a long time ago, I echo those comments. It is important the message go out from this House that we fully support our gardaí in everything they do in trying to keep our streets and communities safe. There is an element of parts of urban areas, in particular, that are not quite no-go zones but are heading in that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: What are the barriers to delivering that because we had Conor Faughnan in last week telling us that the ANPR recognition system that was installed in all the Garda vehicles is virtually useless because one in four hits they were getting for a car that was neither taxed nor insured was producing data that was not correct. For example, the Garda got a flag of a vehicle that was not insured and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...while it is a good service that is provided on a daily basis, we must ensure the policing aspect. I believe the SIPTU recommendation is the right way, and that is for a dedicated section within An Garda Síochána as opposed to a completely separate transport force that, if it is not competing with the Garda, is separate from the Garda. Those are my thoughts and it is also what...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...for a debate on cycling previously and we need to make sure that when we design cycling infrastructure we do not design it in such a way that people are vulnerable to being attacked. We talk about Garda resources, but equally we cannot have a garda on every stretch of cycle lane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Quarterly Update on Matters relating to Minister of State's Remit: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Gerry Horkan: Okay. In terms of the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, the Minister of State said he had a meeting with the Garda this morning. The MIBI appeared before the committee the week before last and its representatives told us that almost 200,000 cars on the road are taxed but uninsured. There are probably more that are both untaxed and uninsured. Where are we in terms of being able to tackle...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...in today's technological environment. The presence of so many high-tech and Internet based companies in Ireland makes this even more relevant. However, it is also critical that we resource the Garda to enforce the laws on cybercrime. It is a matter of concern that the number of gardaí working in the area of cybercrime fell in 2016. Late last year figures provided for Fianna...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...volume has increased. The number of cars has increased and since the pandemic, the volume of traffic has increased a lot but I am talking about the 185 fatalities of last year. The coroner and An Garda Síochána have investigated these particular fatalities. What did they identify as the main cause? Was it speeding, drugs or alcohol? Was it a combination? What historical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I did touch on road safety. Garda traffic numbers are obviously not in the Minister of State's Department, but the working group is obviously cross-departmental. The Garda traffic corps numbers are down. That is acknowledged. When are we going to see more enforcement? We had the Minister, Deputy Ross, in the Seanad yesterday alluding to road safety. The statistics for road safety are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...do not behave as well when we are not. That applies to many different behavioural issues, not just driving. There is so much technology already there. On the M7 cameras, are they RSA cameras or Garda cameras? Who gets the money out of them? TII or An Garda Síochána? Who issues the penalties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: No. The Chairman is right. The point I am trying to tease out is if 20%, which is 10,000 or 12,000, of the famous figure of 65,000, of claims were fraudulent, why so few were sent to the Garda. Ms Muldoon has rejected the claim. She said FBD is not paying out. It has reason to do that. It must have some evidence because people who make a claim will not just walk away when an insurance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Even though this is mainly a Garda measure, it is still operated via the Road Traffic Act and so therefore it is the responsibility of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport rather than the Minister for Justice and Equality.