Results 1-20 of 25 for garda speaker:Marie Sherlock

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Marie Sherlock: The Labour Party will always be supportive of any measures to try to bring greater accountability and transparency to An Garda Síochána. While I see that there are initiatives in this Bill to try to improve the internal controls and internal governance within An Garda Síochána, it reads like this is at the expense of the external oversight. In particular, we have very...

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

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 73: In page 104, line 37, to delete “sector,” and substitute the following: “sector, provided that at least 20 per cent of such membership shall be members of the Garda Síochána nominated by the Garda Commissioner for that purpose,”.

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

Marie Sherlock: ...for all her work on the motion. Three months ago last week, Dublin city went up in flames. It is three months since a few hundred rioters took control of our streets for a few hours until An Garda Síochána from across the country and all levels including sergeants and inspectors, showed their courage and considerable bravery and came out and fought back and reasserted control...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...staff were intimidated and trapped in their workplaces for many hours. It also endangered the livelihoods of many going into this Christmas period. We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the front-line gardaí who found themselves having to deal with that absolutely horrendous situation. I know gardaí who were off duty or on annual leave came from right around the country and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2021)

Marie Sherlock: I want to raise the case of Terence Wheelock. Terence was a young man, aged 20, from Seán O’Casey Avenue in Summerhill in Dublin 1 who died in Garda custody 16 years ago. Sixteen years on, his family are still seeking answers about what happened to him in that Garda cell in Store Street. Sixteen years on, there are so many questions with regard to inconsistencies in Garda...

Seanad: Teachtaireacht ón Dáil - Message from Dáil (15 Jun 2022)

Marie Sherlock: Dáil Éireann has passed the Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022 on 15 June 2022 to which the agreement of Seanad Éireann is desired.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...would be needed to meet the State grants to try to undertake attic insulation. We have to do better. Ten days ago, I stood with the family, friends and community of Terence Wheelock, who died in a Garda station 16 years ago. There was a GSOC investigation in 2014.There were inconsistencies, inaccuracies and more questions than answers in its report. The family needs an independent...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 6: In page 23, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(5) Nothing in this section confers on a member of Garda personnel a power that he or she does not have by virtue of another enactment (including other provisions of this Act) or at common law.”. I withdraw the amendment with the right to resubmit on Report Stage.

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

Marie Sherlock: ..., and Siobhan Kearney for her incredible presence of mind, so justice will now be done to the assailant, and all those who helped in those shocking and frenzied few minutes. I also pay tribute to the gardaí, our firefighters, bus drivers and Luas drivers and our local authority staff whose lives were endangered on Thursday night. The livelihoods of retail, hospitality and other...

Seanad: Transport Police Service: Motion (25 Jan 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...unit. We can get into the semantics of a "public transport unit" and "public transport policing unit" but they are one and the same thing. It is important the unit is established within An Garda Síochána. This idea is not new. Trade unions, which have been working with rail, bus, DART and Luas drivers, have been calling for this for more than 20 years. I am delighted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Dec 2020)

Marie Sherlock: My last question relates to personal injuries. There was a recommendation to establish a specific and dedicated bureau within An Garda Síochána to deal with fraudulent claims. As I understand it, the Government has now decided to train gardaí right across the force to combat insurance fraud. Will the Minister of State outline why this decision was taken as opposed to setting...

Seanad: Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (6 Jul 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...was a twin issue that day. There was the issue of those who obviously entered the building and moved to violently remove those occupying it but there was also the situation with regard to the manner in which An Garda Síochána policed the eviction. While we have this Bill now to deal with the issue regarding the unregulated private security persons operating that day, there are...

Seanad: Transport Police Service: Motion (25 Jan 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...several years now, with 75% of its funding provided by the transport contractors and 25% by the state. I do not believe that is the exact model we should follow because the unit must be within An Garda Síochána.

Seanad: Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...and there is no need to look back on the past. If we do not understand our past, how can we ever hope to make our future better? Arguably, nowhere is that more relevant that when it comes to An Garda Síochána and how our courts treat people in this country. The Minister has not said it specifically, but the attitude I am picking up from the response we got this evening rides...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...housing officials, they say that the past six months have been some of the worst they have ever experienced in terms of the abuse and threats that have been made by people. We see members of the Garda talking about a new low. At the weekend, part of the hand of a garda was bitten off. These events are truly shocking. There are no easy answers, but conversations need to take place about...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...brought back before the court. Yet he committed 11 more offences between January 2011 and August 2011 before the night on which Shane O'Farrell was killed. We have other accounts of an unmarked Garda car coming across the man who killed Shane O'Farrell an hour before he died. With all this evidence existing, Shane O'Farrell's family has been undertaking a campaign for 12 years to get...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motion (20 Oct 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...said, it makes absolute sense to have a centralised register and there should be no administrative hurdles in the way of our police force in it trying to combat financial crime across Europe. An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, should not be beholden to national borders. I am sure many Members saw the article a number of days ago in The Irish Timesabout 50...

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

Marie Sherlock: ...has to come from a member of the local authority. Furthermore, it is a bit strange to us when we read section 114 that there is no mandatory attendance on the community safety partnerships by An Garda Síochána. Again, we seek that one fifth of the membership of the community safety partnerships would be from An Garda Síochána. We heard what the Minister had to say...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Nov 2021)

Marie Sherlock: ...against women in this country long before the State was ever set up, but, in particular, we have had them during the pandemic. We saw a frightening escalation in the number of reports to the Garda last year. Women's Aid alone received 30,000 calls in 2020. How many women are present in the Chamber today? Data from Women's Aid show that one in four women in this country has been she has...

Seanad: Transport Police Service: Motion (25 Jan 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...and their representatives to keep on banging the drum to improve the safety situation for them and passengers on trains and buses. We cannot realistically hope to have public transport unit gardaí on every bus and train, but a strong message can go out that there is a dedicated unit, that antisocial behaviour and criminal behaviour will be clamped down on speedily and that such...