Results 41-60 of 545 for garda speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...;in affordable purchase scheme? People need to know this. Eligibility for affordable housing would be set at a gross income of €55,000 for a single person and €85,000 for a couple. People like the garda and the nurse who are earning €44,000 per year, on the median of their grades, will not be eligible for affordable housing through Sinn Féin's housing plan....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Antisocial Behaviour (4 May 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: ...and maintaining their housing stock and managing their estates, including taking appropriate measures to counter anti-social behaviour. Accordingly, collaborative working arrangements with An Garda Síochána on matters relating to anti-social behaviour by social housing tenants, including Memoranda of Understanding, are generally a matter for local authorities and my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Staff (16 Feb 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department currently employs six civilian drivers. At this time there are no Garda Ministerial drivers assigned to my Department. The total salary cost for the civilian drivers in 2021 was €260,924.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Antisocial Behaviour (8 Feb 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Anti-social behaviour of a criminal nature is a matter for An Garda Síochána. The Criminal Justice Act 2006, which is the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Justice, provides for civil proceedings to be taken against adults or children for anti-social behaviour. The range of powers includes juvenile and adult cautions, fixed charge penalty notices and the bringing of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Staff (25 Jan 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department currently employs six civilian drivers. At this time there are no Garda Ministerial drivers assigned to my Department. The total cost for the civilian drivers was €136,304 in 2020 and €300,028 in 2021. These figures take account of the drivers' salary costs and expenses, along with the mileage costs which are claimed by each Minister in respect of their own vehicles.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (14 Dec 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...imprisonment not exceeding 12 months or both or, on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years, or to both. A peace officer refers to a member of An Garda Síochána, a prison officer, a member of the fire brigade, ambulance personnel or a member of the defence forces. The offences in section 19 were extended to hospital, ambulance...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (23 Nov 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...all statutory codes including the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Fire Services Acts and the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012-2016. In respect of Garda Vetting, the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012-2016 sets out the legal requirements for Garda vetting and the parameters for same. While many of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Nov 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...allegations raised. A final decision on the appropriate action to be taken by my Department will be made in due course. My Department has not had engagement with Wicklow County Council or An Garda Síochána in relation to the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (2 Nov 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...all statutory codes including the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Fire Services Acts and the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012-2016. In respect of Garda Vetting, the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012-2016 sets out the legal requirements for Garda vetting and the parameters for same. While many of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in private emergency accommodation have greatly improved over the past 12 months. He has been told that directly in his interaction with those services and it needs to be acknowledged. On Garda vetting of people who operate in emergency services, particularly around what An Garda Síochána does with complaints it receives, as housing Minister, I will not stretch into what An...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...raised concerns about the number of ad hocgroups of people who feel they may be doing good but who are not properly trained in the sector, including the charity mentioned by Deputy O'Callaghan. A Garda investigation is still ongoing into very serious allegations of sexual abuse of vulnerable people, which is abhorrent. We must make sure that standards, particularly around Garda vetting,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (6 Oct 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...statutory codes including the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Fire Services Acts and the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012-2016. In respect of Garda vetting, the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012-2016 sets out the legal requirement for Garda vetting and the parameters for same. While many of the NGOs...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (30 Sep 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...comply with all statutory codes including the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Fire Services Acts and the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012-2016. In respect of Garda vetting, the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012-2016 sets out the legal requirement for Garda vetting and the parameters for same. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Investigations (9 Sep 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ....   The file in question was not removed from the Minister's office without authorisation but was inadvertently placed with other papers and subsequently found after a period of time. Accordingly, no Garda or other inquiry was required, nor was any file relating to an investigation created by my Department, as there was no security incident.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Records (6 Jul 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...of the staff of the Office of the then Minister and was found after a period of time among other papers, where it had been inadvertently placed. Accordingly, the matter was not reported to An Garda Síochána as there was no security incident. As the contents of the file concerned planning and local government matters, the matter was not reported to the Taoiseach or others in...

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...chance to realise their dream of home ownership. In contrast, the Sinn Féin Party, which has brought forward this motion, is pretending to be a friend of first-time buyers when everything it does points to the contrary. Its cigarette box affordable housing scheme excludes a nurse and garda on average income and comes with a major catch, which is that people do not own their homes...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...build in a given year, forgetting about how the capacity may not be built up to do that and about the cost of those 20,000 homes? Would these 4,000 homes be delivered next year on top of that? Is it on top of the affordable housing scheme that Sinn Féin brought forward that would actually exclude the nurse, the garda and the average worker from owning their own home? A person would...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Records (21 Apr 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...removed from the Minister's office without authorisation but was inadvertently placed with other papers and subsequently found after a period of time. Accordingly, the matter was not reported to An Garda Síochána, as there was no security incident.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (3 Feb 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...;notice of termination with a 7 day notice period can be served in serious cases of anti-social behaviour and can take effect at this time. Actions to deal with anti-social behaviour, harassment and intimidation are primarily a matter for An Garda Síochána. An Garda Síochána should be contacted, if necessary, to safeguard property. Section 4 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...launch the “Community Call” initiative. Led by the local authority, a Community Call Forum was established in each local authority area. It brings together key local players, like the HSE, An Garda Síochána, Civil Defence, community and voluntary organisations and volunteers, and local Councillors, together with national organisations, such as ALONE, and is helping...