Results 181-200 of 1,119 for garda speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been secured in 2023 to increase the number of horses in the garda mounted unit. [11703/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the current contract for the provision of garda public order unit equipment and uniform is due to expire. [11704/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the dates to date in 2023, when new recruits entered the Garda College. [11705/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (8 Mar 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of threats to kill incidents reported to Garda within the division in 2020 to 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [11706/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...information public is the right thing to do, regardless of whether it annoys a neighbour state. As for the proposed new policing and community safety authority, formed from the Policing Authority and the Garda Inspectorate, there needs to be more work in the Bill on their powers of inspection. Unannounced inspections are required under the optional protocol to the convention against...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (21 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the refurbishment works on the new Garda office in O’Connell Street, Dublin, have been completed; if so, when the OPW will transfer this building over to An Garda Síochána. [8351/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases that the Garda national drugs and organised crime bureau have dealt with in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8347/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to change Garda recruitment rules in respect of the upper threshold for recruits, in view of the fact that the policy has now been determined to be ageist (details supplied). [8386/23]

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: The data protection risks are massive and the Garda's record on data protection is spotty. It has unresolved issues regarding the use of CCTV, automatic number plate recognition, ANPR, drones and body cameras. There are also Data Protection Commission, DPC, investigations outstanding. The Garda does not have adequate data protection systems in place for the data it currently possesses....

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...population between 1971 and 1995 and it has since doubled its population again. The Minister will know from his constituency that the services do not match the growth in population. The number of gardaí is a case in point in this regard. This matters for the kind of policing we get. We get more reactive policing because there is simply no time for gardaí to go into schools or...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: Picking up where I left off, section 43(2) of the Bill refers to Garda management being responsible for giving clear directions to gardaí in their use of cameras but mentions the use of discretion. There are many instances where discretion is needed. We should not be over-prescriptive in a lot of areas but this is not one of them. It is unfair not to be clear with the Garda in this...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Murphy: As a Kildare Deputy I too would say that the ratio of gardaí to population has to match up. I have been complaining about that for many years. A policing service cannot be run without gardaí and counties Kildare and Meath are complete outliers in the ratio of gardaí to population. It is not enough to tell us it is an operational issue; there has to be a fairness on this. ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (25 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress he, his officials and An Garda Síochána have made with their equivalents in Northern Ireland in respect of developing an all-Ireland database to record cases of human trafficking on the island of Ireland. [3727/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked motorcycles attached to Garda roads policing units in 2021 and 2022; and the number of motorcycles withdrawn from unit during this period. [1213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding will be provided for the replacement of the two dive trucks within the Garda water unit. [1214/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vetting applications processed by the Garda national vetting unit in 2022; and the average processing time. [1215/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Jan 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 1109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new unmarked Garda cars and vans allocated to the Garda national immigration bureau in 2022; and the number of cars and vans withdrawn from the GNIB during this period. [1217/23]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Murphy: There was no future-proofing. Even the Garda Commissioner has said that, at this point, the Garda are under strength. It could be anticipated that as the population grows, services grow with that, including Garda numbers. Future-proofing something like these kind of buildings would have been key. I am trying to get-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Murphy: How much did the OPW spend on Garda headquarters in the Phoenix Park?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Murphy: How did that come about? Did the OPW or the Garda identify the Intreo site? How did it happen?