Results 21-40 of 521 for garda speaker:Denis Naughten

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...: “ ‘Act of 2018’ means the Data Protection Act 2018; ‘Act of 2019’ means the Parole Act 2019; ‘local district headquarters’ means the local district headquarters of the Garda Síochána which is closest to the place within the county where he or she intends to reside; ‘psychosexual evaluation’ means an...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: Absolutely, but An Garda Síochána would actually have some chance of being able to enforce this if people present at local stations rather than elsewhere. I know there is primary legislation and that we are amending it here. I may have misread it and I hope the Minister will correct me if I have but, on the top of page 9 it says that: A person may give a notification under...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...amendment No. 8: In page 9, lines 4 to 6, to delete all words from and including "any" in line 4 down to and including "section" in line 6 and substitute "the local district headquarters of the Garda Síochána".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 9: In page 10, lines 16 and 17, to delete "any Garda Síochána station which is a divisional headquarters" and substitute "the local district headquarters of the Garda Síochána".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 10: In page 10, lines 26 and 27, to delete "any Garda Síochána station which is a divisional headquarters" and substitute "the local district headquarters of the Garda Síochána".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: ..., to delete "orally" and substitute "remotely by video". I accept that the section relates to people with physical disabilities. What I am saying is that if a person cannot physically present at Garda station, and there are reasons this may be the case, then it should be done by video. We all have devices that have video cameras on them. We can use WhatsApp or any type of other video...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 12: In page 11, lines 14 and 15, to delete “3 days” and substitute “7 days”. If I have read the legislation correctly, the Garda has three days to act on foot of an offender making a notification to the force. The Garda can only take fingerprints and photographs within that time. This seems to be a tight window. If the Garda member...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will come back in on a few of the points the Minister has made. I was very much involved in the debate on the reconfiguration of the divisions. In fact, I remember the Garda Commissioner sitting in the seat the Minister is sitting in today as we teased out these issues. We were all assured that the reconfiguration of An Garda Síochána was to improve policing. This afternoon,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...release of the offender from prison or place of detention, and (b) may, where they are satisfied, in relation to a relevant offender, that it is necessary to do so,”. This amendment places an obligation on the Garda and the Probation Service to review every planned release from prison and to determine if a risk assessment management team needs to be established, based on the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...principal, giving a name to the principal is of little use in that instance; he or she needs to know what the individual looks like. The requirement for a photograph should be included under section 14E(1)(a). The Garda will have taken a photograph of the individual when he or she is being put on the register. The disclosure should include photographic evidence.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...that nobody will be informed and the offender will be free to do the same thing again but on that occasion will be far more careful to ensure his or her movements do not come to the attention of An Garda. All the offenders will do is refine the grooming mechanism they have been using up to that point to go undetected the next time. The offenders should not be given advance notice of this...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: .... What is being provided is a very restrictive and limited right to information. It is too restrictive and limited. All of the discretion in this regard is being left in the hands of An Garda. While I welcome the fact that An Garda will have the legal right to make a disclosure, an option that has not been available to it until now, there should be a mechanism for members of the public...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...about notifying the perpetrator in advance of notifying any potential victim. We need to go that step further and provide a mechanism for parents and guardians to make proactive contact with the Garda to express a reservation or concern because that may end up bringing to the attention of the Garda a risk to which a child or vulnerable adult is exposed but which is not active at the given...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...the passing of this Act, lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on how registered sex offenders are able to change their name or other aspects of their identity without the knowledge of the Garda Síochána with the intention of subverting the purpose of this Act.”. We discussed this in advance of Second Stage, and during the Second Stage debate I flagged this...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: The first problem is that the sex offenders register we have at the moment is a joke. It is a register in name only. Even though we have such a lax sex offenders register in this country, the Garda comes across at least one person every week who is in breach of it. The Garda usually comes across them for other offences and as a result of that, the offender is charged for the breach of the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I accept that. I am suggesting that legal provision should be put in place so the Courts Service must check if someone is on the sex offenders register and then must inform the Garda that individual A has changed his or her name to individual B. There would be an obligation on the Courts Service to check if an individual is on the register and if so, the local Garda station must then be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (10 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: 195. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of the OPW auction of Ballyforan Garda station, County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13646/22]