Results 121-140 of 843 for garda speaker:Seán Fleming

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements in place in which Garda stations are not open and a person makes a phone call to that local Garda station; if these calls will be automatically transferred to a further Garda station in the region that is opened on a 24-hour basis and can answer the phone calls; if they are not directed to another Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...now. It is important to stress, and we have to be very conscious today when we have the ETB in, that the Thorn report and, I think, the report by the Comptroller and Auditor General have been referred to the Garda Síochána. Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú has made it very clear, and I will read one sentence: Having regard to the ongoing investigation ... with An Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...We will follow through and write to the four groups mentioned in the schedule about the issue. I thank the Deputy for following through on the point. Item No. 1969 is correspondence sent to An Garda Síochána by the organisation Former Local Authority Members Éire, FLAME, about the winding up of the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland. We note the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: .... Today, we have the Kildare Wicklow ETB financial statements and the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report and also the Thorn report. The witnesses will come in shortly. The matter is subject to Garda investigation and we must be careful in that regard. In the afternoon session we will deal with housing issues. We will have representatives from the Irish Council for...

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...at accounts that are more than three years old. We have been in correspondence with the Department of Education and Skills which has stated sets of accounts and the report have been sent to An Garda Síochána for its attention. I understand an investigation is ongoing. It is appropriate, therefore, that we proceed in a manner which will not undermine the investigation in any...

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...block of voting in the Dáil and I will call them in the following sequence: Deputies Connolly, Cullinane, Catherine Murphy, MacSharry and Jonathan O'Brien. Once again, I remind everyone that a Garda investigation is ongoing. I do not want anyone trespassing on that. I will be obliged to stop them if they do. That also applies to the witnesses.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is a matter for the Garda. Let us be clear. The Comptroller and Auditor General produced this report. In normal circumstances we would look at this situation. In the interim the matter has been referred to the Garda. One could make the case that we should not be discussing the matter because it is before the Garda, but we decided to discuss the matter within very limited strictures....

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...Education and Skills and the Comptroller and Auditor General are here about a big issue. I have asked the three organisations if there was a loss to the taxpayer and they are saying that maybe the Garda can answer that.

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...else got cut, that is what we are here to know about. Six years after some of these issues arising, people are just beginning to ask the question. The answer is that we will wait until the Garda completes its work and look at it at that stage. I find that delay-----

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...am not even talking about the old VEC, just this one. I will leave it at that. I thank the witnesses for attending. It is a difficult kind of meeting when there is a report that has gone to the Garda but I am satisfied the meeting was conducted properly. Nothing was said there that could compromise any investigation by the Garda or any case, if it arises in due course. That was the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...he seems quite critical of the board and its functions. Perhaps his criticism applies to all ETBs. There will be restrictions in respect of what the Department can answer on the day because a Garda investigation is ongoing. In the afternoon, we will separately deal with housing as part of the housing meeting. We have invited Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: It has been referred to the Garda Síochána. The Thorn report-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...in their own right. The next question I want to ask Mr. Donoghue I will put simply. I am looking at the DPP's annual report. There is lots of good information in it, and I know that An Garda Síochána does a lot of prosecution work in the District Court. I think it is mentioned somewhere in the report that this issue was being looked at, or there is some reference to it....

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: The reason I hone in on this is that at a previous Committee of Public Accounts meeting - it might have been with the Department of Justice and Equality on the Garda Síochána Vote - we remarked that, say, an inspector could in any district have 40 cases a day before him and have ten private solicitors. I think we understood that that inspector gets an additional allowance of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: To be helpful, Mr. Donoghue might send to the committee the list of cases in respect of which the DPP has delegated authority to the Garda such that they do not need to come to the DPP's office.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: -----versus what is going through the Garda and whether it is possible for anyone to deal with it. I am just reading through the DPP's annual report and I see details of the main reasons for a direction not to prosecute. Really, in 80% of cases the reason is insufficient evidence.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is there an indication of when that might happen? We have all heard about the trouble the Central Statistics Office, CSO, has with Garda figures. We are starting from a situation that the CSO cannot stand over. Is the CSO on this group to clarify the statistics?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is that for Garda vetting?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (22 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average cost to purchase each type of specialist dog (details supplied) used by the Garda dog unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2797/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (22 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: 254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of increasing the funding to the Garda National Technical Bureau by 15%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2798/19]