Results 101-120 of 843 for garda speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: To be clear, if documentation has been referred to that we have not seen, has it been forward to the Garda Síochána?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...MacSharry has completed his questioning, we will make a decision, but from where I, as Chairman, sit, if allegations of criminality have been made, I will direct that the committee send them to the Garda Síochána directly because-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...given the nature of what has been said, I cannot ignore it. If a suggestion of criminality is made at a meeting that I am chairing, I have a duty to send a transcript of what has been said to the Garda Síochána to take the matter up with whoever might have information on it. Deputy MacSharry will understand that what he says-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will have to send a transcript. I will be sending the transcript of what has been said to the Garda Commissioner because-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ..., I cannot stop it, but if it is said at the Committee of Public Accounts on the public record, I have a duty as Chairman, given the suggestion of criminality, to send the transcript to the Garda Commissioner for his action afterwards. I just want us all to understand. Mr. O'Driscoll will consider doing the same - that is up to him - but I know what I have to do as Chairman. Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is done for the moment, but he is due to come in again. As soon as the transcript is available, I am insisting that it be sent to the Garda Commissioner.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...the benefit of the Secretary General and the Deputy that, regardless of what the Department does, these suggestions have been made at a meeting that I chair and I will send the transcript to the Garda Commissioner. The Secretary General is free to do what he chooses, but I know what I will do as Chairman. We will move on. Deputy Catherine Murphy has had to leave for a moment. I will...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Driscoll is not here to answer those questions and I have made it clear that if I am concerned - I already have stated I am -I will be sending on a transcript of the meeting to the Garda. That is the outcome of this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...not yet decided what questions to put to the witness. This is a request from one member, which is not representative of the Committee on Public Accounts. I will probably refer the request to An Garda Síochána, and it will be for the members of the committee to decided whether to put these questions formally to the witness. When a member raises an issue here he or she is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...of the Court Poor Box by the establishment of a statutory Reparation Fund". We also want to clarify what is meant when a judge says in the District Court that someone must pay so much into the Garda Benevolent Fund or to the local homeless charity. That money does not go into the poor box.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have seen it in the newspapers. It happens where a garda was injured in an assault and something is paid into the fund.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have seen such cases reported numerous times during the years in which a garda was injured in an assault and something was paid into the fund.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...the item? We will not publish it because it is an individual complaint. No. 2040, dated 5 March, is from an individual who has several queries regarding the committee’s reports relating to An Garda Síochána. The individual is seeking an update. It is good to see that our reports are being examined carefully by members of the public. I propose we forward the queries...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...We will note and publish the correspondence. It is a follow-on from a previous public meeting of the committee. No. 2055, dated 5 March, is from an individual and is in regard to a proposed new Garda station in Schull. The individual alleges that €300,000 of repairs was carried out on a building that was less than one year old and that the original contractor may not have been...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...the Comptroller and Auditor General had already been provisionally mentioned. The Environmental Protection Agency will be here the following week. Then there will be two non-sitting weeks. The Garda Síochána will be back on 9 May. There is a chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report on the report and accounts to the public service on the management of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...of the answer to one point that Deputy MacSharry raises. I would like to know how many of the senior management of the Prison Service in Longford have been governors or assistant governors. In An Garda Síochána, there are senior gardaí at the most senior level as well as civilians. Do we have several governors and people who know how to run prisons, none of whom is at a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Provision (26 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: 579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been provided in 2019 to purchase additional Garda mountain bikes; if so, when the bikes will come into the fleet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14152/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...by the committee as follows: details relating fees paid to prosecuting counsel; public sector organisations that can initiate District Court prosecutions; delegation of prosecuting authority to An Garda Síochána; and statistics relating to outcomes of indictable cases. We will note and publish this. I draw attention to a matter which surprised me. By way of information,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...is quite a bit to be covered in that meeting. Representatives from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board will be in the week after that. We have also received confirmation of attendance by An Garda Síochána. We will return to our work programme at our next meeting and finalise it. I am just referring now to the next few meetings that have already been arranged....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...On 4 April we will meet representatives of the Department of Justice and Equality to discuss the appropriation account. There is also a chapter in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on Garda overtime with which we will try to deal on the same day. We may have to schedule the meeting to start at a slightly earlier time. There is also the question of the Irish Prison...