Results 1-20 of 138 for garda speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...aggression in Ukraine. Obviously, we still need our own independent foreign policy but we must have that infrastructure to allow us to mesh everything together: the NCSC, the Defence Forces, An Garda Síochána and everything else. In this way we can see what the threats are and lay out our approach to dealing with them.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...legislation in the world but if we do not have the capacity to enforce it, it will be worthless. Many have spoken here about the tragedies we have had on the roads recently. We need to ensure the Garda has the capacity it needs to deal with this sort of stuff. We all welcome the movement made on drug testing. We have to create the conditions to ensure less and less drunk and drug...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: .... I am thinking about specific cases. We know that many families and communities could do with early interventions that work with all services, including those involved in education, the Garda, Tusla and whoever else, to get a better result. In some cases, however, there are very chaotic circumstances and the Garda, Tusla, the county council or whoever else does not have the tools...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...that we have at least agreement on one issue, which is that the war on drugs has been an abject failure. I recall that there was a period in Dundalk a couple of years ago when, following cuts to Garda funding, we did not have a drug squad and then the drug squad was suddenly in operation again. In fairness, no one is going to have a problem when action is taken against dangerous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...not take that risk and the people at the other end are probably aware of that. It is an issue that needs to be addressed. I am not entirely sure. It is not like you can make people into an almost garda, as it were. I have seen it be an issue across the board. The witnesses are talking about an increased amount of shoplifting. I have seen a huge amount. If you go through court...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the Garda operational model for County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55083/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...some of the issues that can be created by those with added difficulties as regards estate management. We need a holistic approach and all those supports that are required. Some will involve the Garda but in some cases, we need mental health services, the HSE and others. Unfortunately, that is a part that is missing and sometimes it impacts greatly on many communities out there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...as a single division, and Donegal, which was to be amalgamated with Sligo and Leitrim, is to be maintained as a single division. I have worries in regard to how this will work out in terms of Garda operationality in future in this area.

Extension of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (7 Nov 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...case of the motion at hand, we are happy to support the Government and look forward to the permanent proposals being introduced soon. The Minister of State referred to the new operating model for the Garda. I welcome many aspects of it and the streamlining but once again I put on the record that I have serious worries in relation to the Louth division being amalgamated with Cavan and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I ask for information on that and around the Garda Síochána. The UN has also carried out a board of inquiry. That has concluded and it has been shared with Ireland-----

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...with cases of sexual assault and rape. It is a stain on the State and we need to make sure we deal with it by all necessary means of inquiry. It is vital that we provide the capacity to An Garda Síochána to deal with the issues as they pertain to the Defence Forces. The matter should have been dealt with a long time ago but we are all very supportive of having it dealt with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (4 Oct 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: .... I understand Kerry will also be a stand-alone division. What is happening does not make sense. We all know of the issues there have been in Louth, in particular the drug feud. We know the gardaí who have been lost - I mentioned Tony Golden and Adrian Donohoe earlier. Three gardaí in Dundalk were injured recently when their patrol car was rammed by a stolen car....

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I raised with the Aire previously the proposed changes to the new Garda operating model in County Louth, whereby the Louth division would be amalgamated with Cavan and Monaghan, with the addition of part of east Meath. I am fairly sure at this stage that the Minister has been spoken to and written to by joint policing committees across Louth, Cavan and Monaghan. I think Cavan and Monaghan...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (28 Sep 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...I would much prefer if the Minister for Justice was taking it but she has cover as I have seen her interviewed in Brussels. I spoke to her previously about the new operating model where the Louth Garda division will be combined with the Cavan-Monaghan division in December. It will be one of the few three-county models that will be in operation. This throws up significant issues. Ardee,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (28 Sep 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...where we have a single superintendent who is dealing with serious crime, murder, intelligence-led operations, and they are operating across all those three counties. I accept it is up the Garda leadership team to make the decision but in the end of the day the reviews that seem to occur seem to be highlighted by even the likes of my own colleague in Donegal, who is chair of the Donegal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Sep 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...know about harm reduction and it is hoped the citizens' assembly will come up something more novel than what we have operated. We saw a vital drugs haul operation that was carried out by the joint Garda and Naval Service task force, despite all the capacity difficulties they have. That is something that really needs to be addressed. The Army ranger wing was involved in what was an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (26 Sep 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...issues. Whatever about streamlining, it does not make sense to have a single superintendent responsible for serious crime across that entire area. There needs to be Government engagement with the Garda Commissioner and whoever else to get this rectified.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...that is needed. I put on record again, as I mentioned earlier, that in Louth it does not make any sense. The justice and policing committees, JPCs, will be writing to both the Minister and to the Garda Commissioner asking that Louth would be subsumed into a three-county model alongside Cavan and Monaghan. If it was not good enough for Donegal and the Sligo-Leitrim division, it is not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I want to bring up the issue of the new operating model for gardaí. The Louth Garda division is to be added to the Cavan-Monaghan division in December. This area is not workable; it is far too big. We might look at the crime statistics in County Louth, which I think will even take in part of east Meath. In the town of Dundalk we recently had an incident in which three gardaí...

European Union Directive: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...has been reformed into the Corporate Enforcement Authority, we should see some areas where the law needs to be changed. The final area is on ensuring effective investigations and prosecution of corruption. The DPP, the Garda and the enforcement authority are clearly the important bodies here, but there may be room for other entities to be introduced to assist, especially with...