Results 1-20 of 20 for garda speaker:Lynn Boylan

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...anywhere in the world. People's safety as they go about their daily lives is of paramount importance. It is the bedrock on which society harmoniously functions. For this to be achieved though, the Garda need to be fully resourced to ensure its capacity is capable of delivering protection to the public wherever and whenever it is required. There will be occasions, which we saw with the...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: .... This legislation needs to be brought in. While it may not be in this current format certainly something needs to happen soon to protect people. We need to have a change in the culture in some areas in the Garda. Again, there has been huge progress in that regard but cultural changes still need to happen. Gardaí need to know that a breach of a protection order is a serious...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...to protect others. Everybody who played a role on Thursday in that regard needs to be commended on and thanked for their actions. We heard last night on "Prime Time" from Niall Hodgins of the Garda Representative Association, GRA. I will quote him directly because what he said was astounding. He stated: There was no plan ... Members turned up simply because of WhatsApp messages being...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (27 Sep 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...cyclists out into the middle of the road. Some motorists park on footpaths, which endangers pedestrians. We absolutely need to see enforcement of the existing laws. We do not necessarily need to have gardaí doing all the enforcement. There is a lot of technological innovation happening. In New York city, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, MTA, has fitted buses with cameras...

Seanad: Crime and Policing: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...with it since June 2020 and before that it propped it up in a supply and confidence arrangement. Effectively, it holds some of the responsibility for the crime we see and the confidence crisis in the Garda. Fianna Fáil is entitled to bring forward the motion, but it has to share some responsibility for those issues. If it is in Government and supports the Government in the manner...

Seanad: Garda Reserve: Statements (31 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: I am speaking on behalf of Senator Ó Donnghaile. Although we have heard statements on the need to recruit to the Garda Reserve, the focus of Sinn Féin's comments will be the recruitment to the full-time An Garda Síochána. That is in no way to relegate the reserve element of An Garda Síochána. However, the policing operation that is required to deal with the...

Seanad: Disregard of Certain Criminal Records of Gay Men: Motion (17 May 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...the "Inside the Crime" podcast and it brought back just how different a country Ireland was in the 1970s and 1980s. The podcast covered the murder of Charles Self. I was struck by the fact that the Garda, rather than focusing on who took the life of that man focused instead on his diary and the influential people who were named in it. They used the information to have leverage and to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Safety Authority (19 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...data that is aggregated to the level of counties, which, let us face it, is of very little use to researchers looking at the safety of specific roads. When accidents occur, we know that much data are collected by the Garda – GPRS, the type of road, the weather conditions and who was at fault. All of this would be immensely useful in locating black spots and making our roads safer....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...see families being told, because there is no emergency accommodation left in this city and that is the reality for anybody dealing with people who have eviction notices, to present at their local Garda station. That is where they will be told to spend the night. We all know the eviction ban was not going to fix the homeless crisis. We have had ten years of Fine Gael in government that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...with regard to what came out of Cabinet yesterday. In my remaining time, I wish to speak on the issue of domestic violence.I will not have an opportunity to speak during the debate tomorrow. Last week An Garda Síochána released the latest statistics on domestic violence. This was timely as we approach Christmas which can be a difficult time for those living in abusive...

Seanad: Review of Allegations of Sexual Abuse at St. John Ambulance: Motion (17 Nov 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...has spoken openly about the abuse he experienced at the age of 14 by a senior staff member of St. John Ambulance and the fact he reported the abuse 20 years ago to his family, the organisation and the Garda. Everybody knows that coming forward as a survivor of sexual abuse takes a huge amount of courage. Unfortunately for Mr. Finnegan, nobody wanted to know. He has stated: Nobody...

Seanad: Animal Welfare: Motion (14 Jul 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...see regularly in the newspapers, those animals can be rehomed within five days rather than having to be kept where they are for the duration of a court process. Another issue is that we need the Garda to have an animal welfare unit, which is not standard practice. Animal welfare organisations go to Templemore voluntarily and train gardaí as to what their obligations are in enforcing...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...today. Amendment No. 39 will insert after the word "violent" the words "accidental, homicidal, undetermined or suspicious deaths". This will expand the criteria listed in the section by which An Garda Síochána would have to be alerted to evidence of human remains. The current requirements are quite limited and, therefore, there is a significant possibility some deaths would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Operation of the Coroner Service: Discussion (31 May 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...form to allow for independent jury selection, the inquest will not begin in September. It just will not happen. It also sends out a message internationally that we think it is appropriate that the Garda select the jury or that there be no jury in an inquest in which the Garda will have questions to answer as to how it preserved the site on the night of the fire. On foot of that, I am...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Apr 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...decapitated cat was found in a green space in Ballyboden.I echo the calls of the DSPCA that anyone who has any information on what happened to these poor, unfortunate animals to come forward to An Garda Síochána. We cannot allow people who carry out such barbaric acts on defenceless animals to go unpunished. That said, the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine...

Seanad: Coroners (Provision for Jury Selection) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...week's 41st anniversary was broadcast in numerous countries and covered in many newspapers internationally. Unless steps are taken urgently, the Government will send a message out to the world that An Garda Síochána, who are, let us not forget, a party to this inquest and will have to answer for the manner in which it preserved the scene of the fire and investigated it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...says clearly is that the way juries are selected for inquests is deeply problematic. We are now facing the largest inquest in the history of the State and are talking about the possibility of An Garda Síochána selecting the jury when it is itself a party to the inquest. When the Taoiseach unveiled a bench at the INMO headquarters at the former Richmond hospital yesterday, he...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Measures (26 Jan 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...the jury is selected. Reform of this process was outlined in the ICCL's recommendations. Jurors in inquests are often used repeatedly, are known to the bereaved families and are selected by An Garda Síochána, even in cases where the Garda is party to the inquest itself. The fact that the inquest system has not been reformed at all in the 20 years since the independent working...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ..., despite the fact the legal team have been working on this inquest for three years without receiving a single penny for their work. All of the other legal teams who represent the other families, the Garda, Dublin Fire Brigade and the coroner have got paid but, for the families at the heart of this inquest, their legal team has yet to get paid. It is an absolute disgrace. I wish them...

Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Second Stage (18 Dec 2020)

Lynn Boylan: ...so good at implementing it. Ireland has a disturbingly low rate of detection and sanction of sexual offences and other forms of gender-based violence. We need to hear commitments from the Minister of State that the Garda will be fully resourced and that its members will be trained to deal with reports made under this legislation and provided with the technology and the powers to ensure...