Results 1-20 of 65 for garda speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...EU Drugs Agency. Ireland supports that mechanism through the early warning and emerging trends network, EWET, which has representatives from the Department of Health, the Department of Justice, An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prison Service, the Health Research Board, the HSE, several national laboratories, and civil society representatives. Naloxone is used as an antidote to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (30 Nov 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...in that regard. I have been in this position for nearly a year now and I have been speaking to businesses, the insurance companies, the Alliance for Insurance Reform, business owners and the Garda fraud squad, I have been watching every different metric, and I keep hearing there are some solicitors and firms that are routinely not accepting outcomes from PIAB. That causes me great...

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...and to see a bus burning on O'Connell Bridge and to see the scale of violence and people terrorised in their shops was heartbreaking. I have also worked in youth justice since 2006 and know the Garda youth diversion programme has worked for 95% of the young people who come into it. It is incredibly effective but I feel I saw that night the 5% whom State interventions did not and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Process (22 Mar 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...2022. Work on the finer detail of the legislation is ongoing and the Department continues to engage closely with the Office of the Attorney General and all relevant stakeholders, including An Garda Síochána. Both the Minister and the Department are committed to finalising the Bill as expeditiously as possible. Cabinet approval was secured in July 2022 to legislate for the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (8 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans that are in place for disused Garda stations, for example, Dalkey and Kill O’The Grange Garda stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61430/22]

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: .... There is concern around security. It is not apparent from a policy perspective that we are having a conversation around security, either in terms of delivery or design considerations. The Garda Síochána Act 2004 indicates that gardaí have jurisdiction as far out as the continental shelf, but we need a policy conversation about how that will work and where security will...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Minister of State made some strong announcements that I very much support concerning the expansion of the Garda youth diversion programme and the consultation regarding 18- to 24-year-olds. He secured an additional €6 million or €7 million for Garda youth diversion projects. Some of that funding came from last year as well, but it looks to me like there is a budget of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with everything the Minister of State said. I am sorry for having raised a subject, Garda youth diversion projects, covered in the justice Vote, but I presume that juvenile liaison officers come under the Garda Vote. Let us continue.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One of the gaps or points of concern in this area is that the Garda Youth Diversion Bureau in Harcourt Square makes the decisions as to whether to prosecute young people or to put them on the youth diversion programme. In this regard, one of the concerns I have had for many years is that when a referral is made, whether it is for a welfare referral, an anger management course, a sexual...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: They come through the Garda Síochána to the Minister's office and the Department, and then they are published.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...It is an extraordinary additional spend on overtime. I note the significant reasons for that, including the investigation of organised and serious crime, which remains a significant concern for An Garda Síochána and a risk to its members. Does the Minister of State want to elaborate on that in greater detail? It is a concern for me, the committee and the Minister of State.

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...has been a great deal of talk recently about public order, how Dublin is perceived, whether it is more unsafe or perceived to be so, and on what happened during Covid-19 to influence that. An Garda Síochána used to do a public attitudes survey in respect of Dublin, but that has not been done since 2019. My view is that Dublin has changed a great deal during the Covid-19 period,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (19 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...new moments of risk and threat can be created throughout the criminal justice process. It is really important that the Department is aware of that and of the safety needs of individuals, as I know An Garda Síochána is. There can be a requirement for people to go into safe and protected spaces at different stages of the criminal justice process. I ask that the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Online Safety (29 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the powers An Garda Síochána has in relation to dealing with illicit materials online; the links between An Garda Síochána and the major technology companies based in Ireland and their obligations to report illegal content; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34787/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names of the members of the section 44 committee that was put in place to monitor the effectiveness of the Garda youth diversion programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34840/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (31 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...through his legislation on coercive control. People said there was no point, that one could not prosecute a pattern, an idea or a set of behaviours, but that was shown to be wrong. I commend the Garda for following up and prosecuting what people said could not be prosecuted, that is, that controlling and manipulative set of behaviours. So much of this issue is rooted in education....

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am very pleased to speak on this Bill today, which I welcome. It is an important update and a new approach to managing compensation claims. Last week, I was at the Dún Laoghaire Garda station for the centenary celebrations. A significant number of members and retired members were there, including those getting long-service awards. There was a fantastic exhibition of the history of...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...for the past two months and with the pressure for everybody it has to move on. I could link them directly, but I cannot do that because the home and so forth have to be assessed, there must be Garda vetting and one cannot put vulnerable people in a newly vulnerable situation. My difficulty is that I am aware of both situations but I cannot deal with the gap. I have nobody to call and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...the same time. My apologies if I have missed important points but I cannot attend both meetings simultaneously. I wish to follow up on the questions of Deputy Catherine Murphy in respect of the Garda diversion programme and the JLO scheme. I have an interest in this as I was on the section 44 committee from 2015 to 2019. It was a valuable insight. I really admire the work that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In 2016, there was a very unfortunate incident of incorrect racial profiling within An Garda Síochána. It was raised at the level of the Department of the Taoiseach. There was a need to bring in a person from Tusla under section 11 or section 12-based interventions that An Garda Síochána could make. The point is that the Garda and Tusla came together very quickly to be...