Results 61-80 of 177 for garda speaker:Rónán Mullen

Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)

Rónán Mullen: The Government would get a fair few Garda drivers for that.

Seanad: Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...this legislation. To make a simple comparison, when a person fills out a passport application or an application to register to vote, they are required to complete a section of it in the presence of a member of An Garda Síochána, the reason being that this operates as a fail-safe. It applies some measure of verification, imports an atmosphere of seriousness to what is going on,...

Seanad: Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...and the supplementary electoral register. I thank Senator Ward for that clarification also. While he is correct to say that what is being proven by presenting oneself before an officer of the Garda Síochána goes to the issue of the identity of the person, in the end it all does come down to veracity. If someone signs up to who he is and he is not telling the truth, that is the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...glad to tell the Seanad today that the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, met a bunch of members and staff, mainly from the Joint Committee on Health, and he advised us of correspondence from the Garda Commissioner. I am happy to say this confirms "the Garda Commissioner's satisfaction with existing public order legislation to adequately deal with any reasonable public order incident...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...to have a debate on this issue at this point, given that we have had the clamour from the Government and supporters of abortion to have legislation. The Minister, rightly, disclosed to us the Garda Commissioner's clear advice that the proposed zones are not necessary. The Minister, nonetheless, clings to the view that he still wants to legislate. What is also interesting was that he...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...to be in hock to the abortion industry and only interested in depicting opposition to abortion, publicly expressed, as something that is somehow hostile or denigratory when what is clear from the Garda Commissioner's letter is that it is very much the opposite. It is peaceful and it is not a threat to public order. I would be grateful if we could have a debate on the matter in order to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2019)

Rónán Mullen: The Garda Commissioner does not believe legislation is required and we should engage with that.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...for notification of parents. Unless it is believed that the parents are somehow complicit in the crime, it would surely be wrong to contemplate notifying various civil authorities, such as the Garda and health authorities, but not to require notification to the parents, particularly in circumstances where something with such potentially far-reaching consequences for a young woman as...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: The malpractice of the counselling agencies in question was tape recorded and was the subject of an article in the Irish Independent. It was also investigated by the Garda.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...I want to raise an issue that also arose last month concerning the number of arrests for drink-driving. In September it was reported that there was a discrepancy between the figures issued by An Garda Síochána and those released by the Central Statistics Office, CSO. We all know how important information is for good policy decisions. During discussions on the recent Road...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...89 homicides were not included in official statistics for a 14-year period due to what was called a process issue. The IT professionals investigating the matter felt intimidated and stonewalled by Garda officials when the red flag was raised on that matter. Another strange feature of the more recent figures was that there was no breakdown available on the gender and age of those...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...issued very troubling recommendations against this new direction in public policy. I cannot think of any other situation. Let us say there was some legislation dealing with the workings of the Garda Síochána, and let us say there was a report that we knew of that was on a civil servant's desk somewhere, and that it was not clear how much sight of that there was. The Minister...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jun 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...a special class, including special needs assistants, SNAs and bus escorts, for example, must be managed by the principal. Dealing with appointments, sudden absences, planned leave, replacement staff, Garda vetting and so on for these extra staff all falls to the principal. Managing transport to and from the special class is especially demanding for principals, particularly at the start...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...decisions and felt they had been badly and, in some ways, illegally advised by counselling agencies in receipt of funding from the State. This is a very serious matter. It was investigated by the Garda. The evidence showed that women were told to hide their abortions from their own doctors on five occasions. In four of those five cases, it was IFPA counsellors who told them to do so....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...visited her boyfriend or fiance in Basel, Switzerland before beginning her journey to Ireland to visit the family in County Galway for whom she had worked. Despite the fact that, according to the Garda, a Brazilian national may visit this country without a visa for up to 90 days, she was detained by the Garda. A habeas corpusapplication made on her behalf seems to have failed. She was...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...silly buggers and that there is not some untold part of the story that would cast a reasonable light on the entire episode. If what The Irish Timeshas told us is true, we need to ask whether Garda immigration officers are acting in an unnecessarily hostile fashion when people who have a perfect right to do so try to come into the State. If they are, what does it say about what we are...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...children is largely hidden from the public gaze. The recent audit by the Government's special rapporteur on child protection, Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, is important. His audit of the exercise by the Garda of the provisions of section 12 of the Child Care Act is important because it graphically lays bare the grim effects of alcohol and drug abuse on young people in the family home. Dr....

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...the Minister to come to the House and outline what measures she is taking to protect farmers and what her Department is doing to prevent such crime from taking place in the first place. The closure of rural Garda stations has been very difficult for communities around Ireland, as we all know, and has increased the fears of those living on farms or in rural parishes.Last August, we had a...

Seanad: Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...welcomed the emergence of commissions of inquiry as an alternative to tribunals. However, I am prepared to believe the circumstances in this case are so serious and unusual and that the role of An Garda Síochána is of such fundamental importance that only a tribunal could deal properly with the issues involved. It is no rash prejudgment of the findings of the tribunal to say...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2016)

Rónán Mullen: ...should ask the Minister for her response. When there is a documentary alleging political interference, however long ago, in an investigation into a missing child, and when not one but two retired gardaí say the chief suspect could have been prosecuted were it not for a phone call from a politician being made to a Garda station, which they say effectively stymied their ability to...