Results 1-20 of 78 for garda speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: There is a claims issue. Has there been any interaction with the Garda in respect of criminal prosecution? Having uninsured vehicles on the road is a criminal matter.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...expansions in youth services in my area have been led by the Department of Justice, rather than the Department of children. The difficulty in that regard is that the Department of Justice and the Garda diversion programme is very much aimed at those children who need direct intervention but one always has to be aware that there are kids who are not engaged in diversionary projects and...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...board for Ballymun to try to help operationalise and implement some of the recommendations in the report. One of the key elements of the report is that the northern division has 2.3 gardaí per 1,000 people. We have to conclude that some of the comments in the report came from within the Garda, because they are there. If we take out the 48 gardaí assigned to Dublin Airport,...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Statistics can say many things, but there is very clear evidence that we do not have the Garda numbers that we should. On another point, the Commissioner also helped support the working group we had in 2019 in respect of scrambler bikes. That working group has followed through and we now have the new Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023. It has been fantastic to see a problem that was in some...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...made. With regard to CAMHS, I attended this morning's meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts at which we discussed Tusla, where staffing is a real challenge. It is a real challenge in the Garda and in education, mental health services and our health service. All of that results from the benefits of a prosperous economy. We have a prosperous economy, and that provides the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...and the designing out of places of antisocial behaviour. These are all issues that I know the Taoiseach wants to solve. I ask that decision-makers from the Civil Service, the national agencies and An Garda Síochána will be part of that task force. Again, I thank the Taoiseach for his work and for the allocation of the nearly €2 million that has been made available to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Therefore, the ambition would be that not only could somebody under the age of 18 make a complaint, but that investigation or interaction might take place in a non-Garda facility and also might include non-members of the Garda Síochána.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: For the record, the reason why, obviously, the Garda would be needed in that case is because of the nature of the complainant being under the age of 18.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Does Ms Logan have a timeline for when that separation from or non-dependence on the Garda services will be completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Therefore, if a complaint was made today or next week, is it likely that that young person would not have an interaction with gardaí and it would not happen in a Garda facility?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...a particular feeling towards those. I will come back to the incidents, and Deputy Murphy kind of touched on the issue, of the Dublin riots. What it brought to the fore was a feeling within An Garda Síochána that gardaí very much were looking over their shoulders at the menace that GSOC might be to them having a strong response to a very difficult set of circumstances. ...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Let me change direction. There are still a number of investigations taking place that relate to the Dublin riots. A concern among both the public and the gardaí was that guards did not have the freedom to respond. I would like to give our guests the opportunity to respond to that here because I believe that the Garda Commissioner did. Is there anything that our guests would like to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Obviously it is not within Mr. Justice MacCabe's remit to recommend the parameters of the use of force. To clarify, does he believe that any questions about the use of force is a matter for the Garda Commissioner and the Garda Commissioner exclusively?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: In regard to our approach, we like to think of our outcome reports. There is a theme that could be built upon from a number of meetings we had with the Department of Justice, GSOC and An Garda Síochána that we could pull together in one report. We have not done a report for some time. In regard to turning our meetings into outcomes, for the secretariat, there is probably a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: If it was possible to bring An Garda Síochána in sooner that would be best, but that is set now so we will leave matters stand.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...at the same time. I am not saying that we take away from the following meeting, but if a delegation from the Department is in the room at the same time as both the representatives of GSOC and An Garda Síochána, I think it might help the discussion although that is for consideration by the members. The key thing I took away from them on that occasion was that the delays were...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (28 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: .... I do not think those who organised the protest can escape culpability either. For whatever reason, the State was not in a position to respond adequately. I hear the Taoiseach say that the Garda Commissioner will have public order units in place until at least Christmas. The very least the Government needs to do is ensure that the resources in place now to keep people safe and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...might also preclude others. The second issue I have is that chairing the joint policing committee, JPC, might be the minimum level of ambition the new mayor has for his or her supervision of the Garda. The process is there to identify the transition of powers between central government, for want of a better phrase, and the mayor. Again, my fear would be that if we limit our ambition to...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: ...the first to listen to us. He worked with the Tánaiste and the Attorney General to try to get solutions. At our local safety forum, we were asked when those powers will be made available to the Garda. I met with the Garda Commissioner on the issue. I understand that between the Attorney General's office and the Garda Commissioner's legal office, it is being operationalised. I ask...