Results 101-120 of 342 for garda speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (27 Feb 2018)

Marc MacSharry: 345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if provision has been made in budget 2018 for essential renovations to a Garda station (details supplied) in County Sligo in view of the fact that funding was originally allocated for the renovations in the budget 2017 and the work did not commence that year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9908/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...in a position to put a timeframe on it? What will the Government do, given it seems the Minister has no statutory function in deciding what post office closes or opens? It would be different for Garda stations, as we know from the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross. I want to know what is going to happen. In my constituency, we have Ballygawley and, most recently,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...genuine and I will take him at his word. However, we had education and training boards, ETBs, coming in here saying they would not say anything because of legal advice. We had the Acting Garda Commissioner saying he would not talk about a liaison committee. We had a previous Garda Commissioner referring something to GSOC late at night to avoid answering questions on an issue here. ...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I am sure the opening of Stepaside Garda station had the support of the Civil Service Management Board too but that is another matter. Has there been a cross-departmental assessment or cost analysis of carer's allowance with the Department of Health, the HSE, disability services or local authorities, to see if a loosening of the criteria for carer's allowance is possible? Could we reduce,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (5 Dec 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in counties Sligo and Leitrim as of 1 November 2017; the number of community gardaí in the division; and the number of Garda Reserve and new recruits assigned to the division since recruitment resumed in 2014. [51651/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (28 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason no remedial works have been carried out at Sligo Garda station as committed to by Garda management in October 2016; the timeframe for remedial works to commence and be completed; if these works will be immediately commenced; the process and status of the site acquisition and construction of a new regional Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...to take refuge in the fact that this is a tribunal. We are not asking about any of the evidence, liaisons, contents or about anything that has been put forward. I do not understand why the acting Garda Commissioner cannot just answer the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: The question has already been put to the acting Garda Commissioner. It concerns the taxpayer and why this unit was set up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: On the surface that seems fine. Why, however, is An Garda Síochána employing retired officers?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: With the greatest of respect, Deputy Fleming is chairing the meeting here. We have heard the acting Garda Commissioner's objection to talking about any of these matters, even though these are procedures backing a tribunal as opposed to the detail informing it. The Chairman has given his view on that and in the meantime, I am within the law to ask whatever I want. How many times did Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I am anxious that the acting Garda Commissioner seems-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I am, with respect, in the middle of the question. I have to put on record here that the demeanour of the acting Garda Commissioner is such that he does not want Mr. Barrett to say anything at all. We are asking a question and yet every few seconds the acting Garda Commissioner interrupts to say that we are straying. I ask the Chairman to instruct the acting Garda Commissioner to be quiet...

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ..., the criteria were flawed. Assistant Commissioner Leahy said that may well be the case. I ask him to go a bit further. Were the criteria flawed, in terms of the demands and priorities of An Garda Síochána and the resources?

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...we are counting down. Tell me when I have three minutes left, if you would not mind. Does Assistant Commissioner Leahy agree with my questioning? Does he not feel that at this stage, if Garda management is in a position to say it has implemented nothing yet and if it has the opportunity to adjust the criteria and change its implementation plans to match priorities, would that not make...

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: That was based on flawed criteria, because a one man station is to be opened only when a garda is on duty.

Public Accounts Committee: Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: The criteria is fantastical. My questions concern taxpayers' resources, which is not unrelated. It was mentioned on the last occasion in the context of Stepaside. Some 101 gardaí walked out earlier this week in Sligo. Mr. Michael Reilly, of the acting Commissioner's own good offices, condemned the station in October 2016. No remedial works have been carried out since. The debacle...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: There is no problem with that. Mr. Nugent will be well used to it. There was prima facieevidence of fraud which brought it to the stage where the case was given to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and things developed along that route, is that fair?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Can Mr. Kelly tell me if it is correct that there was prima facieevidence of fraud that led him to hand material to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Was there a specific investigation on that matter which led Mr. Kelly to pass that information to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission?

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...and provision of new stations which are "critical to delivering effective policing". I could not agree more. As Deputy Micheál Martin stated earlier, there is a serious issue in the regional Garda station in Sligo where an assistant commissioner sits.