Results 41-60 of 177 for garda speaker:Rónán Mullen

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...of data retention that simply was no longer acceptable under European law. I cannot speak for all the citizens of this country but I think many ordinary people will be concerned at the idea An Garda Síochána will not in future be in a position to access all possible information necessary for the investigation of serious crime, including murder. This legislation is being rushed...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...writing the same way I can. This is not about harassment or observing and besetting. There are other sections of the Bill that are perfectly reasonable in plenty of contexts. It is worth noting the Garda Commissioner's remarks on this, as we did on Committee Stage.The Garda Commissioner said there is no need for such legislation. The law is there to deal with any of the activity that...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...such a thing. My answer is exactly the kind of people who would propose such draconian legislation in the first place. They would be only too happy to make such a report and seek to get the Garda involved, as this legislation does, and seek to get one fined up to €3,000. The degree of intolerance is already on display in this legislation. Say one is a mother accompanying one's...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...coffee shop within or without a facility where abortions are taking place, should be able to communicate ideas respectfully without fear of somebody overhearing, reporting them and trying to get gardaí involved in their life in a way that would not last a second before our courts but which the legislators here today have no problem advancing because it satisfies a political goal of...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...;5,000 or imprisonment for a term of up to five years. However, the Jacobins behind this legislation were not happy with that. There must be more offences in the Bill and we find them in section 5, whereby gardaí have power to give a direction. They can give those directions where they suspect with reasonable cause that a person intends to breach any of the provisions of sections 3...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...one who expressed doubt that anybody would ever report such a person, but not only can the officious bystander, if we can call them that, to use another legal term, who overhears that report it and ask for the Garda to move the person on but presumably the abortion provider upstairs, when they hear that such a conversation was taking place in breach of this Sinn Féin and Labour...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...about whether they want to have an abortion, and to offer that help, if asked for it, in a respectful and decent way. When this Bill was introduced last November, I pointed to the statement made by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in which he confirmed that existing public order legislation was satisfactory to deal with any incidents related to protests, should they arise. The Commissioner...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...seek evidence. Let us not seek to use unsubstantiated claims in order to advance the case of legislation that is in all likelihood unconstitutional and when people in the hospital in Limerick and the Garda Commissioner have communicated to leave us in no doubt that it is unnecessary. Of course, there are things I can see in this legislation that I would be horrified to think would go on....

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...of Social Protection or the HSE would turn any of those bodies into quasi-judicial bodies. After all, neither PIAB nor any of those other bodies can impose sanctions on anyone for telling falsehoods. That responsibility rests with the Garda Síochána to investigate and ultimately the courts to decide. There is a lacuna and this Bill proposes to close it. I do not pretend that...

Seanad: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...it is an offence to give them false information. It might come to PIAB's notice that false information has been placed before it and as the Minister noted, it brings that to the attention of An Garda Síochána but the question is whether the law to prosecute it on that basis exists. In certain cases, it does not, particularly where no award has been made but possibly where an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...be appropriate to ask for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to come in here to discuss with us whether there is sufficient enforcement of the law. It would be almost impossible for An Garda Síochána to arrest and detain somebody around the issue of doping of horses, unless it was known that there were significant animal welfare issues directly involved or unless...

Seanad: Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: Céim an Choiste - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Rónán Mullen: Tacaím leis an leasú seo ó Shinn Féin. Nuair a smaoinítear air, tá sé dochreidte nach mbeadh dualgas ar dhuine atá ag obair i ról chomh tábhachtach le garda i gceantar Gaeltachta a gcuid gnó a dhéanamh agus déileáil le daoine eile trí Ghaeilge más gá agus nuair is gá. Is é sin an...

Seanad: Report on Victim’s Testimony in cases of rape and sexual assault: Motion (17 Nov 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...reporting trauma, sexual abuse or violence and the accused person. She mentions that even at the stage of the investigation process, a “Do Not Disturb” sign should be on the door of a meeting room in a Garda station where a victim is making a complaint. That would seem to be fairly self-evident. Yet, that was not her experience. The other issue, which I raised a number...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...will continue. This legislation is not constitutional and it is not legally necessary as there is legislation in place to prosecute and punish anybody who would intimidate or harass people. The Garda Commissioner has said as much not too long ago. The reality is that because of the nature of abortion in this country, we do not have abortion clinics per seas there are in other countries,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...was a model of humanity and consistency in a way that is exemplary for many of his contemporaries. If he knew our circumstances, he would have reflected on how the legislation proposed by Sinn Féin and others here today is not necessary. As the Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, has stated, we have the laws we need to deal with any breaches of public order if such events were to take...

Seanad: Offences against the State Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (22 Jun 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...somehow an ideal forum which produces the right results every time and is free from external influence or interference. We recently marked the 25th anniversary of the capital murder of the late Detective Garda Jerry McCabe. As we know, reduced charges of manslaughter were brought by the State in that case because it was feared that murder convictions might not be secured because of the...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Motion (26 Apr 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ..., but will penalise the poorest, particularly poorer people who abuse alcohol and who will end up spending more of their limited money on the habit.We also saw contempt for people yesterday in Athlone when members of the Garda Síochána, and there is no blame on them because they are forced into this position, broke up a small group of people attending mass. That is a clear and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...restrictions were a matter of public health guidelines only, or whether there would be a penalty. The question was asked against the background of a priest in County Cavan being pursued by the Garda. It is now three weeks later and I have received no response whatsoever. I also wrote to the Garda Commissioner around that time, expressing my concerns, and I received no response - not...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Mar 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ..., then, rather than the constitutional right to free practice of religion being completely restricted on the back of an unconstitutional law, it is being restricted on the back of no law at all and the Garda Síochána, the national police force, is handing out fines and threatening prosecutions on the basis of no law at all. I refer to Fr. P. J. Hughes, a priest in County Cavan,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2020)

Rónán Mullen: .... Many of the people who value their ability to go to church are among those facing the most restrictions otherwise. There must be a rethink in that regard. I am troubled by the line coming from the Garda Síochána about the 132 permanent static checkpoints being erected on roads across the State. I support having checkpoints at which people are asked where they are going and...