Results 1-20 of 28 for garda speaker:Eileen Flynn

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)

Eileen Flynn: ...the work. It is not about the seriousness of it all of the time. It is also okay to be you. I hope we will continue to thrive as a community and that we will see more doctors, more members of An Garda Síochána, and more professional footballers within our community. People say, "If you cannot see it, you cannot be it." There is so much out there you can see and want to be...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: ...those roles so we create those spaces for members of the Traveller community to be judges, solicitors and be successful. Even in prisons, it would be for Travellers to be prison officers and for Travellers to be members of the Garda. We do not always have to be the ones who are in the prisons. The opportunities are just not there. My colleague Senator Ruane is doing a lot of work in...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: As with any other community, it involves calling An Garda Síochána. That kind of behaviour is genuinely not acceptable. No matter who you are or where you are from, it is not acceptable to attack a worker. There is no real explanation for it. I appreciate Ms Doyle saying it is due to frustration. People do not have the right to assault a person who is trying to support them, no...

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

Eileen Flynn: ...and does not have a place in Traveller culture or the Traveller way of life. I have seen this through first-hand experience a lot of the time when, even back in the 1990s, if one was to call the Garda and get the abuser removed from the home in a lot of cases within the Traveller community we are told "This is part of your culture". While we are looking at sanctions for breaking barring...

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

Eileen Flynn: That is not the answer. We need to have an honest conversation and we must tackle the far right. One of the questions on last night's episode of "The Late Debate" asked how the Garda failed. That failure was the result of the policies and structures we have in place. The Garda did not know what it was doing that night. It was a shock and we were not prepared for it. What would we do if,...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...of processing the record made under paragraph (a) with facial recognition technology,”. The amendment would enhance the definition of "recording device" to clarify that no data collected with a Garda recording device could be processed with facial recognition technology, FRT. We have had this argument many times in this Chamber. FRT has been proven again and again to have...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(2) A member of Garda personnel shall operate, or cause to be operated, a recording device where they are requested to do so by an individual with whom they are engaged in the course of their duties.”. Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 would require gardaí to turn on their bodycams if...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...Nos. 5 and 6, the Minister outlined why she is not accepting the amendments and Senator Ward also made points on them. I have seen communities overpoliced. People might think that I am anti-Garda but I am far from it. We need a certain level of Garda protection for all citizens. That is common sense. What we are talking about is fairness for people. If the body-worn camera is...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "(2) A member of Garda personnel shall operate, or cause to be operated, a recording device where they are requested to do so by an individual with whom they are engaged in the course of their duties, except where the member reasonably believes that the making of a recording would be harmful to the...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No.18: In page 11, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “(2) A member of Garda personnel who knowingly turns off his or her recording device before he or she uses force, commits an abusive act or act of violence, or otherwise commits an offence, for the purposes of making that information or any document derived therefrom unavailable as evidence,...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 28: In page 14, line 18, to delete “A member of the Garda Síochána not below the rank of superintendent” and substitute “A judge of the District Court”.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 29: In page 14, line 32, to delete “member of the Garda Síochána” and substitute “District Court judge”.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 30: In page 14, lines 35 and 36, to delete “member of the Garda Síochána” and substitute “District Court judge”.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 32: In page 14, line 40, to delete “and rank of the member of the Garda Síochána” and substitute “of the District Court judge”.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 33: In page 15, line 4, to delete “A member of the Garda Síochána” and substitute “A District Court judge”.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...specifications of the cameras to be used,”. I believe that this Bill needs more discussion on Report Stage. Moving on to amendments Nos. 51, 52, 54 and 55, they are really simple and would require gardaí, when setting up CCTV schemes, to provide clear information about the kind of cameras being used and to inform affected members of the public of their privacy rights in...

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (18 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...organisation attempts to export a dual-use item in contravention of subsection (1)they shall be guilty of an offence. (3) For the avoidance of doubt, subsection (1) applies to the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána.”.

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (18 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...organisation attempts to export a military item in contravention of subsection (1)they shall be guilty of an offence. (3) For the avoidance of doubt, subsection (1)applies to the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána.”.

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Sep 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...in mobile homes have been thrown aside. In one case, a newborn baby was in the cot. Coming up to Christmas, funnily enough, we always have raids in the Labre Park site. Unfortunately, the way gardaí approach many members of the Traveller community is not as human beings and it is not nice. I have seen this many times. In April last year, a pregnant woman was shoved by a member of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: .... He refused and I said to myself I would not take this. I told the driver I would not pay him if he would not take me to my destination. To make a long story short, he told me he would ring the Garda. I told him, "No", I would be the one to ring the Garda because he was the one committing the crime rather than me. I called the Garda and the operator told me this was a waste of Garda...