Results 1-20 of 1,003 for garda speaker:Simon Coveney

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: My Department engaged with An Garda Síochána in 2022 in relation to a matter involving written allegations and threats to an individual staff member.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: .... Deputy Crowe, I am slow to comment on an individual that I do not know anything about or the background to it. What I would say is that within Government, we have enormous respect for An Garda Síochána and the work they do, often in very challenging circumstances. The issue you raise is primarily the responsibility of GSOC and the Garda Commissioner. It is difficult for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: The issue the Deputy raised is a very valid one. That is why we set up a Garda vetting review group to focus on how we can make changes and introduce more efficiencies into this system, avoiding duplication and unnecessary effort. Those issues are still being considered by that group. I am told it is due to report relatively soon but I will get the Minister to come back to the Deputy with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...is a helpful suggestion and I hope it can be the basis for moving the issues forward. On antisocial behaviour and policing, I hear what Deputy Gannon is saying with regard to the pressures on Garda resources. The Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, and the Garda Commissioner have focused significantly on increasing Garda resources, presence and visibility in the inner city and I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...either next week or the following week. If Opposition parties would be agreeable, we will certainly try to accommodate that as best we can. One Deputy Mattie McGrath's request for a debate on Garda numbers, there has been a great deal of discussion around security, crime, making our streets safer and on Garda numbers. The Minister, Deputy McEntee, is making significant progress in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...McEntee T.D., to continue to work to keep retailers, customers and crucially, workers safe. The Government is committed to building stronger, safer communities in Dublin – and strengthening An Garda Síochána is at the core of that. We will continue to provide An Garda Síochána with the resources it needs to ensure communities around Ireland are safe and feel...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...is structured and managed, allowing for more efficient management, oversight and reporting and providing real-time detailed analysis of core activity. The increased funding will also ensure the authority can continue to recruit additional staff, particularly staff with specialist skills. In this regard, the authority hopes to be able to increase its current staffing complement from 70...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ministerial Staff (30 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...Official work pattern Hours of attendance 2 Seven days on and seven days off on a week-on week-off basis. Not less than 41 hours and 15 minutes gross per working week. In relation to Garda Drivers, I have to two Garda drivers who are assigned to me by an Garda Síochána to provide these services. Their terms and conditions, including...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...of data sets is required in order to deliver my Department's official functions. For example, a weekly transfer of person-specific employment permit data is sent by my Department to the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB). This is required in order to allow my officials to process employment permit applications. Aggregated data transfers are also undertaken for the...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Simon Coveney: I categorically state my full support for my friend and colleague the Minister, Deputy Helen McEntee, and for the Garda Commissioner. There are moments in politics when raw hypocrisy needs to be called out. The idea that Sinn Féin now presents itself as the defender of law and order and the Garda Síochána is difficult for this party to stomach. Sinn Féin is the only...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: There is a Garda unit there too. It is a really important agency but it is still filling positions and there will be some savings because I understand it will not have filled as many as it would have liked to by the end of the year.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ..., looking for a way to collectively respond to rebuilding the reputation of the city centre and to get more activity between now and Christmas and into the new year. There is an ask to maintain a Garda presence on the streets, to which the Government is responding. We will also partner with Dublin City Council on a new initiative it will lead between now and the end of the year to...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...a young five-year-old girl and her family. She remains in a critical but stable condition. She and others were the victims of a vicious assault last Thursday. I commend the members of the Garda who are standing on the streets across Dublin tonight. In many cases, they were heroic last Thursday evening when trying to protect our capital city and the people within it. I also commend...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Trafficking (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...nature of their status and their vulnerability to exploitation, as a matter of policy, the WRC does not prosecute undocumented workers. The Inspectorate of the WRC works closely with the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) and the Garda National Protective Services Unit in terms of the reporting of potential immigration and human trafficking issues encountered during inspections....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...submitted complaints to the Corporate Enforcement Agency (CEA) since its establishment in respect of grants and or funds my Department provided. Similarly, no complaints have been submitted to An Garda Síochána in the past ten years in respect of grants and or funds my Department provided.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...with a value of €39.5 million. As of 31 August this year, Revenue had seized approximately 45.3 million cigarettes with a value of just under €36 million. Revenue continues to work with An Garda Síochána on being more effective in ending that illicit trade. Clearly, the higher the price, the more attractive the market because of the bigger price differential...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Simon Coveney: As the Deputy knows, the Commissioner is responsible for the operational decisions for An Garda Síochána. Of course, he is committed to protecting communities and ensuring that An Garda Síochána is as impactful as it can be. As I said earlier, the Commissioner is meeting with Garda representative bodies tomorrow to try to make progress on the roster issue. The Minister...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Simon Coveney: I just said in answer to another question that my understanding is that it is not the Commissioner's intention to lose gardaí from specialist units within An Garda Síochána.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...hearing it from but I am putting it on the record that this is my understanding as a Government spokesperson. I also do not think we should be deciding in this House on operational matters for An Garda Síochána. We do not have the expertise. We are politicians. That is a matter for the Garda Commissioner and the team around him in terms of the leadership of An Garda...