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

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 – Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 – Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My next question is somewhat linked. On the provision of office facilities for Garda staff, co-location in Garda stations is not always required. Even in my area, there is an opportunity to develop an office building for Garda staff. Is that part of the programme for capital expenditure? There are pressures on some Garda stations because of their size. On Templemore, recruitment is to...

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Minorities Engaging with the Justice System: Discussion (24 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is, but there may be time for a second round. I have a few short questions before we begin a second round. They concern Garda training and the specifics of it. I visited Dolphin House yesterday, where much of the family law and childcare law is taken care of. Women's Aid and Men's Aid Ireland also have offices there. We were talking about the need for a liaison officer for An Garda...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 – Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 – Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister for attending. I want to ask her a couple of things about Garda numbers and recruitment and so on. Can she give a little more detail on her opening remarks, particularly around the next stages of the Garda campaign and when it is likely to open? The redeployment of Garda members to operational front-line duties is a significant change that has been happening over a...

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...

Garda Síochána (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (10 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...of the organisation between the different pieces of legislation. Nevertheless, as a constituency Deputy in Dáil Éireann, it is important for me to raise issues in my area relating to appropriate Garda representation. A town of 30,000 people is being built in Cherrywood in my constituency and no physical space is being allocated for a Garda station. The area will be served by...

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.

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]

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...

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]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have been involved with An Garda in cases of this nature and it is capable of taking prosecutions. The difficulty for it, on a practical basis, is getting social media companies and telecommunications companies to respond to it in a timely way in order to access the evidence that it needs to be able to take the different cases. The Garda is clearly able to take the cases and under the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...Gael has within its membership an intercultural integration group and we are trying to listen and ensure it is led by people who are impacted by barriers. I urge that with the conversation on An Garda Síochána, the discussion is lead by people who have been impacted by discrimination and by barriers rather than an assumption that it is sufficient to talk to that community via...

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...

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...is different in the Dublin area to the Galway and Mayo areas. I reflect on colleagues working in constituencies such as County Mayo and the sheer size and scale to look after, as a Deputy. An Garda Síochána looking after it on a divisional basis, with the distribution of specific functions across that is interesting, but there is a communications challenge around how that will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Digital Recording) Bill 2021: Discussion (21 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...cannot remember the name of the case, but it concerned the change from the Kenny rule on the admissibility of evidence obtained incorrectly. I thought it was going to create a stronger onus on An Garda Síochána to do things correctly and to have to explain it rather than simply being off the hook by virtue of the evidence being ruled out automatically, but it enhances the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (21 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to speak on the same issue. I have raised the question of Cherrywood Garda station. I thank the Minister of State for his clarification on distribution being a matter for the Commissioner. On Garda strength, it has been the case over the past 20 years that the number of gardaí has been between 11,000 and 14,500. It is very welcome that recruitment has recommenced, with the...

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...These are not my concerns alone. The have also been articulated by people such as Eddie D'Arcy, who has worked in youth work for 30 years, and Chief Superintendent Colette Quinn, who has run the Garda diversion programme many years. These are two of the most experienced and committed people in Ireland in the context of helping children stay out of the criminal justice system and move...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Digital Recording) Bill 2021: Discussion (21 Sep 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...please talk about the perception around the justification of it? Following up on Senator Ruane's perspective, does the GRA anticipate that the camera would be on at all times when members of An Garda Síochána are interacting with the public, and therefore gathering as much evidence as possible? Clearly, members of An Garda Síochána are also engaged in their own...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (27 May 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 26. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the interagency cooperation between Tusla and An Garda Síochána in cases of sexual assault of very young children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25557/21]