Results 1-20 of 44 for garda speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...the inner city. It is simple. Talking to residents, schools, businesses and visitors, it is clear they want it to be cleaner, safer and more livable. To achieve that, we need dedicated community gardaí working on a small-area basis, going into businesses and schools, talking to residents and knowing who lives in, works in and visits the area. We need Dublin City Council to step...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...had more bravery in her body than any of us will ever have. I am sure their hearts are broken. We are thinking of them and her. May she rest in eternal peace. Senator Casey raised the issue of Garda numbers and recruitment. We commend the Minister for Justice on the work she is doing with the Commissioner and the force to increase Garda numbers. The huge response to the recent...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...can be achieved, humanitarian aid can be provided and sustained, hostages can be released and everybody can work together for a two-state solution. Second, I welcome the confirmation from the Garda that there have been three arrests with regard to the recent arson attack on a residential property. It brings to ten the number of people who have been arrested in recent months for conspiring...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...set the annual budget for the local authority, they get to determine where the funds are prioritised. They can, at a local level, direct resources to support the statutory agencies and to support the Garda to make our communities safer. The requirement, from our perspective, was to ensure the councillors' role is continued in the community safety partnerships and that Oireachtas Members...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...in the House. Section 62 is very important with regard to the determination of the priorities for the service. I come from central Dublin. Twenty years ago, determining the priorities for the Garda locally in Cabra and Glasnevin was a contentious issue for the community. We came together and we got the Garda to engage with the local community and public representatives. We also...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...activity. To put a strategic plan in place will take significant additional resources. I know the Minister is aware of this as she has secured an additional budget to increase the resources in An Garda Síochána. I am querying the need for a strategic plan, when we have an annual service plan. Was consideration given to having a longer strategic plan, a five to ten-year plan,...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...the Minister for repeating her remark. I had not heard her. The exact point we were trying to make is based on my agreement with her comment that I do not believe anybody would want to go into a Garda station and ask to have a look at the service plan nor would anyone want to go in to ask to see the strategic plan and, therefore, the suggestion being made is valid. For the strategic...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...is that in this piece of the Bill we are missing an opportunity to extend the buy-in and support for the annual service plan. What it does is say that the service plan will be prepared by the Garda Commissioner, that it will be presented to the Minister and that the Policing Authority is involved but it is all so removed from communities, including communities that the Garda has to serve....

Seanad: Local Government Matters and City and County Councillors: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, which talks about the attacks on democracy and the attacks on politicians. It also talks about the attacks on journalists, the attacks on NGOs and the attacks on gardaí. We live in a violent world. However, local electoral representatives work out of their homes; they work on the go. Dublin city councillors do not have an office to work out...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...That is what we cannot lose sight of. For me and for us it is an appalling, atrocious and repulsive event to have happened in our community and I know the Chair shares that view. I commend and thank the gardaí from Mountjoy and Store Street Garda stations and from all over the Dublin metropolitan region north, the greater Dublin metropolitan area and beyond who responded. I also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local and European Elections 2024 and Subsequent General Election: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...in the ballot box, there could be people who cannot communicate verbally or in any way with others. It is entirely on them to take action to ensure there is no voter impersonation and to engage a garda and ask him or her to arrest somebody engaging in voter impersonation. This is a weakness in our electoral process. That is before we get into the other complicated areas of campaigning.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Safety (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ..., scramblers and motorbikes. Increasingly, those who are irresponsibly using the quads and motorbikes are of an age where they really need better supervision and support. Most importantly, our gardaí on the beat right across the city, county and country require amendments to the law to give them the power to make our roads and public spaces safer, and to remove from our public...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Safety (17 Oct 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: .... It is indeed welcome, not just to this House, but to communities and families across the city and, indeed, the country to know that this Government has enacted new laws giving new powers to An Garda Síochána to tackle the issue and seize and destroy vehicles that are being used in an antisocial manner. It is really important that dangerous driving has become an offence...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...and sympathies to the friends and family of a woman who was killed in a hit-and-run yesterday evening on Phibsborough Road. I appeal to anyone who was in the Phibsborough area to contact Garda with information. It is very sad. We will have the budget next week. Yesterday, the largest Opposition party published its version of a budget. I will speak to the issues of housing and...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister for coming to the House to debate the Fianna Fáil motion on crime and antisocial behaviour. I commend her, the Department, the gardaí and everyone who works to try and make our communities and our country safer. However, it would be completely disingenuous of me not to tell the Minister straight to her face that the people in Dublin city who I speak to every...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...parks in the area - have become unsafe for other citizens to use. I welcome the additional powers being introduced to ensure that scramblers, quads and other vehicles are used in a positive way, that the Garda are given powers to seize and prosecute antisocial use of such vehicles and that there will be increased penalties. The solution to concerns about how data is used is not to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I will talk about the issue of the dangerous and criminal antisocial behaviour relating to stolen cars. Recent Garda numbers indicate that in the first three months of this year alone, more than 1,300 private cars and vehicles were stolen. That is a 21% increase on last year in just the first three months of this year. It is an upsetting thing for anyone to have any of their property...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Tenant In Situ Process: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...us that. It is a nightmare for anybody to get a notice to quit at the moment because of the supply shortages. My first question is for the DRHE representative. How many homeless people have been referred to Garda stations? Were any referred this or last week? How many will be referred next week?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: .... It was appalling and we utterly condemn it. The people of the North deserve to live free from the threat of violence and from violence. I appeal to anyone who has information to contact the Garda and the police. There can be no tolerance, no exceptions and no excuse for it. My constituency of Dublin Central has experienced its fair share of violence, particularly in the north inner...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: I call for a debate with the Minister for Justice on the deployment of a dedicated public transport Garda unit. I have raised this issue many times in the House, including, most recently, on the Order of Business last week, following on from the debate in the Seanad on 25 January this year. I welcome the students in the Gallery. I am sure many of them use public transport in this city,...