Results 1-20 of 190 for garda speaker:Mark Daly

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (8 Feb 2024)

Mark Daly: ...waiting list for dental and orthodontic services for children in this area. Senator Malcolm Byrne - The need for the Minister for Justice to make a statement on plans to reform and expedite the Garda vetting process. Senator Mark Wall - The need for the Minister for Education to make a statement on the opening and location of a new special school in Kildare. Of the matters raised by the...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (7 Feb 2024)

Mark Daly: ...to make a statement on the eligibility criteria for the living alone allowance. Senator Malcolm Byrne - The need for the Minister for Justice to make a statement on plans to reform and expedite the Garda vetting process. Senator Marie Sherlock - The need for the Minister for Education to establish a system for matching special school and special class availability with demand in...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (1 Feb 2024)

Mark Daly: ...support small shops that wish to participate in the plastic bottle return scheme. Senator Malcolm Byrne - The need for the Minister for Justice to make a statement on plans to reform and expedite the Garda vetting process. Senator Lynn Boylan - The need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make a statement on the rate of prosecution for wildlife crimes....

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

Mark Daly: ...and Equality Commission. It would be appropriate that that body come in on it and also that there be a balance for the priorities for the policing service. There is concern among members of An Garda Síochána that complaints are being made against them. I know they do not have trade unions but there is the idea of policing services and the gardaí themselves being...

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

Mark Daly: I am just saying that a counterweight to IHREC would be issues and concerns about the behaviour of gardaí and An Garda Síochána. There is the issue of a counterbalance with regard to coming up with the priorities for the policing service in that there needs to be representation in some way, shape or form of the rank and file. There are many concerns regarding the lack of...

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

Mark Daly: ...do with the issue of inflation or food poverty or anything like that. These are non-essential items. I am wondering why one of those groups that would be listed as "appropriate" would not be the gardaí themselves. The "Garda Commissioner" and "National Office" are listed. However, if the Minister is talking about the policing service and police priorities, surely, the rank and...

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

Mark Daly: I am saying that gardaí are being portrayed as not doing their jobs and that is because things like organised crime with regard to retail are not being prioritised. There are things that are not being prioritised. We have all sorts of other issues on which gardaí are saying resources are not being put into because the priorities are not there. A person from the retail authority...

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

Mark Daly: Regarding having a timeline for publishing something every year or five years, the Bill leaves it up to the Garda Commissioner, the national office and other groups, as the authority believes appropriate, to do that at a time of its choosing rather than at an appropriate time, as done by the Oireachtas. It would be appropriate for the Department to outline and make clear when the authority...

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

Mark Daly: Section 63(1) states: “the Garda Commissioner shall, at the request of the Board and in accordance with this section, within 6 months after the coming into operation of section 11 and not later than the expiration of each subsequent 3 year period following that coming into operation, prepare and submit to the Minister a strategic plan for An Garda Síochána in respect of the...

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

Mark Daly: I will repeat what Senator Ardagh said, because all politics is local and Garda John O'Sullivan is from Kenmare, so I thank him for all his work.

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

Mark Daly: I accept it is not relevant to the section. My colleague, Senator Chambers, raised the issue of the evaluation of the performance by An Garda Síochána. It is not clear how the evaluation would be done, what the strategic benchmarks would be or who would do it. Independence is needed for the evaluation but also in putting together the strategic plan and main objectives. I suggest...

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

Mark Daly: May I follow on from Senator Ardagh's appropriate proposal to make the plan available in a Garda station? The plan should also be made available in libraries throughout the State because people could study it there. While we are living in a digital age, the number of people who could access the plan on a website, in the knowledge it is available, is relatively limited. People will need to...

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

Mark Daly: Yes. That is why I am asking about the libraries and supporting my colleague, Senator Ardagh, on her proposal on Garda stations.

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

Mark Daly: ...I was making was that there is no provision for making printed copies available to the public. Senator Chambers made a point on section 64(4), which states the board, in consultation with the Garda Commissioner, shall provide the Minister with reports on the implementation of the strategic plans as part of the annual report. One of the points I was making earlier was on evaluation, how...

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

Mark Daly: ...about performance not being measured. This is being measured but it is not specific as to who is responsible for each of those elements. Section 65(3)(e) is about the capital expenditure proposed by An Garda Síochána. In respect of capital expenditure in a service plan, the issue is who is responsible not only for the capital expenditure but, in the event of an overrun on the...

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

Mark Daly: I seek clarification. Section 67(1) reads: The Garda Commissioner shall manage the services set out in an annual service plan as laid under section 65(12)or section 66(10), so as to ensure that those services are delivered, in so far as practicable, in accordance with the plan and in a manner that does not exceed the resources available to An Garda Síochána for the period to...

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

Mark Daly: ...amendment refers to "the period to which an annual service plan relates, so inform the Board, the Authority and the Minister." I seek clarification on not exceeding the resources available to the Garda Síochána and how that is determined. What are the consequences if the resources are exceeded in terms of the plan itself? Perhaps my question relates to the section.

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

Mark Daly: Section 68(6) relates to the Garda Commissioner. I know this point was made in respect of previous sections. The section states: If the Garda Commissioner fails to submit a capital plan to the Minister within the specified period, the Minister may, in writing, issue a direction to the Garda Commissioner to prepare and submit a capital plan to him or her not later than— (a) 10...

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

Mark Daly: No, but I am saying it is the same wording as the previous sections. I brought this up about consistency in measurement. This relates to the fact that while the Garda Commissioner has to do something under the direction of the Minister, it is not clear, and there is a ten-day period for which that must be done. What happens if the Garda Commissioner does not comply with the Minister's...

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

Mark Daly: ...if the Minister has any thoughts on how that might be narrowed a small bit. It is leaving it open to the board for an undue array of views with regard to the annual report. Going back to the Garda Commissioner, it states that the Commissioner must prepare and submit "not later than 4 months after the end of each year". Again, it makes my point on the previous section. What are the...