Results 61-80 of 264 for garda speaker:Timmy Dooley

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Fuel Fraud: Revenue Commissioners (3 Dec 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...for the previous five years so there is no other potential supplier. Should we increase the fines and prison terms for the crime? Is there anything we can do that will make it easier for Revenue and the Garda to do their job?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Safety Authority: Chairperson Designate (11 Nov 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...resources are in place to deal with enforcement. Any independent observer of the slide in the good results of recent years would have to consider a reduction of investment in the ability of the Garda to patrol as effectively as it might wish. That is the area of greatest concern for me. It does not relate directly to Ms O'Donnell's role but it feeds into that role in terms of her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...has worked to date because the appropriate investment was put in place in the detection and enforcement side. The eye has been taken off the ball because of the cuts in budgets, in particular the Garda budget. These are the two issues I am most concerned about. The State is unable to meet the funding requirements that are necessary to maintain our roads, never mind to plan for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Safety (26 Jun 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...Authority in particular. As he is aware, Gay Byrne, as the Chair of that organisation, is about to leave that position. He might reflect on recent comments made by Bob Olsen, the head of the Garda Inspectorate, when he talked about the lack of investment by the Department of Justice and Equality in the Garda fleet of vehicles and the impact that was having on the ability of gardaí...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Safety (26 Jun 2014)

Timmy Dooley: In the Minister's response to my colleague, Deputy McConalogue, he talked about the strength of the Garda force and that it may be stronger than it might be if we had been in government. Notwithstanding his views in that regard, it is a fact that the level of enforcement of the law as it relates to road safety has been compromised in recent years. He spoke of the trends emerging this year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...than the specifics of the investigation. Mr. Nolan states that the investigation team reached the conclusion that there was no basis for the allegations, no basis for disciplining any employee and no basis to refer the matter to An Garda Síochána. Further on he states that whereas we cannot categorically deny or conclude that it never happened, there is no evidence to suggest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Road Traffic Offences: An Garda Síochána (16 Apr 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...to the meeting from the point of view of the committee is based on comments made by a judge at Kilrush District Court and the concerns he raised. I refer to his comments addressed to the local Garda superintendent who prosecutes those cases: You have been put in an unenviable position of trying to prosecute cases where matters have been so badly and so appallingly put together by [a named...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...those issues and deal with them effectively is what is at issue, not the kind of claptrap we have all been obliged to listen to since this debate began. The central theme here is that the former Garda Commissioner was forced out of office to save the Minister's skin and the blushes of the Labour Party. What we have failed to elicit from the Minister, his colleagues and the Taoiseach in...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Timmy Dooley: How was the Garda Commissioner culpable?

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Timmy Dooley: What is the Garda Commissioner culpable for?

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Timmy Dooley: The Garda Commissioner was sacrificed to save the head of the Minister.

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...for his actions concerning that Deputy. In fact, if there is a resigning matter in all of this, it is the fact that the Minister used privileged information that was provided to him by the Garda Commissioner in a private briefing session to seek to gain some level of political advantage. To me, that is where the absolute wrong was committed by the Minister. In his failure to recognise...

Misuse of Motor Vehicles (Public Spaces) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...or abandoned. Local authority by-laws should deal with these continuing problems. My party echoes Deputy Ellis’s concerns about the abandonment of cars. While the Minister of State has outlined the Garda procedures for dealing with the perpetrators of these offences, I look forward to more action by the Government on this.

Roads Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Feb 2014)

Timmy Dooley: .... Poor quality roads and those that become damaged have an effect on road safety and death on the roads. We all seek to reduce this. We often talk about enforcement and a greater level of detection by the Garda Síochána in respect of drink driving and speeding, but a significant part of the success achieved over the past ten to 15 years in reducing death and injury on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (16 Jan 2014)

Timmy Dooley: 238. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he is taking to improve the time it takes to finalise a Garda vetting application; if additional gardaí are needed in this section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2071/14]

Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Jan 2014)

Timmy Dooley: ...around road safety, it is right and fitting that we hold the Government to account, not so much the Minister concerned but the Minister for Justice and Equality, to ensure the appropriate level of Garda staffing is in place and to ensure the laws we pass in the House are enforced in a manner that ensures those among the travelling public take cognisance of the law. The public must realise...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reports (15 Jan 2014)

Timmy Dooley: 575. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda unit established in 2009 to examine the cause of road deaths will report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1166/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Safety Statistics (19 Dec 2013)

Timmy Dooley: ...roads was "unravelling before our eyes." In an interview with the Irish Independent on 12 December he blamed the increase in the number of deaths on the roads on the decline in funding to the Garda Síochána and creeping complacency among road users. He labelled 2013 as a "bad year" in recognition of the figures the Minister outlined. I put it to the Minister that the chairman...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Safety Statistics (19 Dec 2013)

Timmy Dooley: ...or some path towards reducing the number of deaths on the roads has he had direct discussions with Mr. Byrne? Has he shared with him his belief there is no direct correlation between the level of Garda resources and the number of deaths on the roads and, if so, what was his response?

Topical Issue Debate: Cabotage Regulations (18 Dec 2013)

Timmy Dooley: ...hauliers resulting in the displacement of the work in the trade. I ask the Minister to utilise his position at Cabinet level to urge the Minister for Justice and Equality to make clear to the Garda Commissioner that while there are cabotage laws in place, they should be enforced to the full extent. The Minister is correct that domestic hauliers who travel to the United Kingdom are put...