Results 101-120 of 831 for garda speaker:Pearse Doherty

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...courts for not paying their TV licence fees. In the previous year, 411 of those people were sent to prison for not paying their TV licence fees. A constituent of mine, a single mother, had the Garda call to her door and she was brought to Mountjoy Prison during this period for not having a TV licence. In the same year, the Davy 16 got together and formed a consortium for the sole...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: During the Central Bank's six-year investigation into this issue, did it uncover anything it felt it needed to refer to An Garda Síochána or the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and has it done so?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: We should call a spade a spade. Mandatory quarantine in a person's home will not work. It is not quarantine. Garda sergeants and inspectors have come out and said they do not know what the Government is talking about. This is what Garda sergeants and inspectors are saying when the Government claims this is being followed up on and that there is a robust system in place, when everybody and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...to mandatory hotel quarantine. We are of the view that such quarantine should apply to all non-essential travel. That is what is needed. That is what the people want. Will the Government accept the amendment, particularly as the system it is proposing will not work? Mandatory quarantine in one's home is farcical and unenforceable. The Minister said last weekend that gardaí...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insurance Fraud (17 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 630. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents of fraudulent insurance claims reported by the insurance industry to An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021 by the insurance industry. [8932/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (13 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 726. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional funding will be made available to Garda recruits who have had their training period extended until 31 January 2021 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1479/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Governor of the Central Bank (21 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I want to pick up on that point. Ms Rowland said the Central Bank has liaised with the Garda Síochána but under section 33 AK of the Central Bank Act has it made a report to the Garda Síochána of suspected criminal activity in respect of the tracker mortgage investigation?

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...of September or in October to see if their child is failing in his or her environment and only then will SNA support be provided, with all of the hoops still to go through in regard to the acquisition of an SNA who is suitable for the post, Garda clearance and all the rest. The idea that we would set children up to fail in this way is simply unbelievable. I have personal experience of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aquaculture Licence Applications (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...that the notices were in a newspaper with only 15 sales in the area being impacted in Falcarragh? I do not believe it was appropriate. That is the reality. The Minister can talk about a Garda station in Letterkenny being open for 24 hours, but this is like saying that the public notification for works to be carried out in Leinster House will be on view in the Garda station in Bray. It...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Aquaculture Licence Applications (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...Democrat are sold in the Falcarragh area, in contrast with two other papers with a bigger reach there. The advertisement was not published in Gaelic, though this is a Gaeltacht area. It was available to view in the local Garda station, but in rural Ireland Garda stations are only open three hours a day, and if gardaí are on call, a member of the public will not be seen. If it is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Shared Services (19 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 10 October 2019, when the report from the Garda authorities on the matter of An Garda Síochána ceasing to share information with Tusla due to differences of opinion on the protocols will be issued. [47750/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Costs (13 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...One of them will happen this evening with my Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill. We need to establish a dedicated insurance fraud unit. This means a commitment from the Minister for Finance to An Garda Síochána that the Government will fund and resource this unit and that it will not come from existing resources. The Government needs to enact the section of the legislation that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...region and its economic fortunes. Now is the time to act with the requisite urgency, put these criminals out of business and ensure the full rigours of the law come down upon them. We are told that the Garda is making progress in its investigations but, thus far, there have been no arrests. The required mechanism for cross-Border policing co-operation to bring those responsible to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: .... Just yesterday, I got a letter from a person in a successful company on the Border. That person told me there has been numerous assaults and other problems but they no longer contact the Garda because it is a waste of time. This week, somebody who was seriously intoxicated was on the premises. The people in the company phoned the Garda and it took an hour for the Garda to respond....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: That is okay. On evidence that the Central Bank has uncovered so far, has it had cause to meet with the Garda in relation to some of that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: On Christmas Eve 2016, my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, sent correspondence to the Garda; the then Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald; the then Minister of State with responsibility for communities, Deputy Catherine Byrne; Dublin City Council and the current Tánaiste, who was then Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. The correspondence...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...elements from the public purse because of what happened when the housing development was built in this area. The Tánaiste has said there was a comprehensive response from Frances Fitzgerald. She spoke about a Garda investigation into the attack on the JCB, which was absolutely appalling. Deputy Ó Snodaigh raised the matter with the Tánaiste and Deputies Frances...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Shared Services (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána has ceased sharing information with Tusla due to differences of opinion on the protocols. [41395/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...it believed those claims were fraudulent. They were not paid out so those involved did not get any money. They obviously did not challenge that but only four of those cases were reported to gardaí. How does that sit with section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act 2011, which imposes an obligation on insurers to report suspicions of fraud to An Garda Síochána? Under that Act,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is not about whether Mr. Brennan is happy to work with the Garda or provide further information. There is a legal obligation on insurance companies to report suspicions of fraud. Mr. Brennan's company, Zurich Insurance, determined that there were 100 fraudulent claims made in 2018 and in 96% of those cases the information has not been passed on to the Garda. Zurich is therefore in...