Results 141-160 of 740 for garda speaker:Brendan Howlin

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...the integrity of that information and of the information-gathering process itself. To acquire full information fairly and to preserve it is not hugely demanding. We know very well that An Garda Síochána eventually learned hard lessons after a long succession of cases in which prosecutions were thrown out because the evidence could not be relied upon. We now discover that...

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...of Tuesday night surely must shock us all. There is no amount of discussion on housing policy that could inure us to the real impact of families in this country being required to sleep either in Garda stations or in public parks. Mr. Mike Allen of Focus Ireland has referred to Tuesday night as unprecedented and shocking. He is correct. Some 12 families could not find emergency...

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...but it beggars belief. As to the notion that it is a matter of resources, coaching of witnesses and tampering with evidence are not matters of resources. The same issues arise when we talk about the Garda Síochána. There are fundamental ways in which proper conduct of business takes place. This case brings to light that we need to tackle these matters. Some suggestions...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: He is opening Stepaside Garda station.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...it the Taoiseach's view, as previously announced, that he would not countenance the recognition of the Defence Forces associations in the way that he has agreed to recognise the associations of An Garda Síochána? Is it his view that the Defence Forces associations should have access to the WRC and the Labour Court?

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...would be very welcome. In the course of the forthcoming talks, the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, will head the trade union side. I welcome the fact the Garda and the Defence Forces associations have also been invited to attend. Today I focus on the broader issue of trade union recognition for both of these groups. The Taoiseach previously...

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...concerns about what is an allegation at this stage. The Taoiseach will recall I raised it with him last week in Leaders' Questions. It fits into wider concerns Members of the House have about An Garda Síochána, as Deputy Shortall has rightly laid out. I understood the Taoiseach agreed last week the Tánaiste would make herself available to answer questions on the broader...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I find the Tánaiste's strident response to the critical issues raised by other Deputies depressing. That there is a growing level of crisis in and about An Garda Síochána is undeniable. It is not conjecture or fanciful thought. Perhaps the most concerning development of recent days is the clear division opening up between senior civilian members and other members of An Garda...

Leaders' Questions (11 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...and issue is carefully boxed off to an inquiry by GSOC or the Committee of Public Accounts - somewhere, anywhere - and things carry on. Every Member can clearly see that the best interests of An Garda Síochána are not served by the status quo. That the Tánaiste cannot see this is a matter of great concern. She and I have known each other for a long time and I believe her...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (10 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...and Equality was represented on the committee and as far as she was concerned, that addressed her legal obligations. I do not think anybody could accept that. The senior legal adviser to An Garda Síochána told the Commissioner that under the law, she must notify the Minister because she was now aware of these very serious allegations relating to the Garda training college....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (10 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...any access to information as it arises? These are fundamental issues. We do not want to have a parallel process here but if our primary job is to restore confidence in the administration of An Garda Síochána, it is not good enough that after the arrival of one momentous crisis after another - each of which would bring down the head of any policing organisation - we simply say...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (10 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...being carried out, and we have a hiatus for that. There are 14,700 wrongful convictions that still have to be addressed. We still have no explanation for any of this from the management of An Garda Síochána. Now we come onto the next issue. Everything has become compartmentalised. It is sent to some review body, or sent to the Committee of Public Accounts, or sent somewhere,...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Micheál Martin has already raised a most distressing case. Almost a month has passed since the House debated the urgently needed reform of An Garda Síochána. The Minister will recall that the debate was a bit of a farce in that the amendment tabled by my party was carried while every other amendment and then the substantive motion itself were all defeated. As such,...

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “challenges posed by policing in the 21st century;”: “declares its conviction that: — the systems, structures and processes of Garda management are not fit for purpose and no longer command or deserve the confidence of the public, or of public representatives; and — a transformative programme of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Emergency Plan (12 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...Britain, but we have to plan for that. A much more likely attack is a possible terrorist attack. We would be foolish to think that we are immune from that in this jurisdiction. I know that An Garda Síochána monitors some people in this country and so on. We need to up our game in this area. I believe it is a good thing that part of the review of An Garda...

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...in convictions and penalties being wrongfully imposed by the courts. These now have to be undone and we still do not have any word on how that will happen. Hand in hand came news that the Garda Síochána can no longer stand over its own data relating to roadside breath tests. It withdrew the figures because they are irreconcilable with data provided by the Medical Bureau of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Inspectorate Reports (6 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the recommendations of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate in its Changing Policing in Ireland report, in tabular form; the actions which have been taken on each recommendation to date; the planned actions on each recommendation; the anticipated timeframe for implementation of each recommendation; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Inspectorate Reports (6 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: 82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when revised implementation updates for all Garda Síochána Inspectorate reports will be made available; the reason no such updates have been published since 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17219/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Let me deal with that. I was a member of the last justice reform committee. The Government does not have at its meetings the Garda Commissioner, the chairperson of the Policing Authority or the senior administrators in the Department of Justice and Equality, all of whom should have been there to answer questions of key Ministers in advance of any decisions being made at Cabinet. Did the...

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Brendan Howlin: Can we have a published timeline on that? In the meanwhile, is it the Government's view that we can have continued confidence in the current management of An Garda Síochána in light of what we now know and the views of the majority in the House and of the people?