Results 101-120 of 375 for garda speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...is to allow for the compilation of returns from the brigades and allocation of costs following the year-end. The total cost in respect of the provision by the Defence Forces of assistance to the Garda Síochána in protecting movements of cash for the years 2006 to 2009 is as follows: Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total Number of Escorts 2,259 2,291 2,210 Breakdown due May 2010 Payment...

Written Answers — Cyber Warfare: Cyber Warfare (23 Jun 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...Natural Resources has undertaken a number of awareness campaigns aimed at individuals, SMEs , the education sector, the public Sector and business. My colleague the Minister for Justice and the Garda Siochana are also active in areas such as cyber crime and cyber bullying. The legislative programme includes the Criminal Justice (Cybercrime and Attacks against Information Systems) Bill,...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Deployment: Defence Forces Deployment (23 Jun 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...of drug trafficking rests primarily with the Customs Service of the Revenue Commissioners. Responsibility for the prevention of crime, including people trafficking, rests primarily with An Garda Siochána. However, the White Paper on Defence provides for a security role for the Naval Service and the Air Corps to assist and support the civil authorities in this important work. Government...

Written Answers — National Emergency Plan: National Emergency Plan (23 Jun 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...scenarios such as a nuclear incident or an influenza pandemic. The Framework for Major Emergency Management is the document that sets out a structure enabling the Principal Response Agencies (An Garda Síochána, the Health Service Executive and Local Authorities) to prepare for, and make a coordinated response to, major emergencies resulting from events such as fires, transport accidents,...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Equipment: Defence Forces Equipment (23 Jun 2009)

Willie O'Dea: The most important defence against any terrorist attack is detection and prevention by the security forces. While an Garda Siochána have the primary responsibility for law and order, one of the roles assigned to the Defence Forces is the provision of aid to the civil power, meaning in practice to assist, when requested, an Garda Síochána. The various components of the Defence Forces are...

Defence Forces Reserve. (23 Jun 2009)

Willie O'Dea: I am not an expert on how the Garda Reserve works but we have to be in a position whereby the money we are allocated each year for paid training days is sufficient to accommodate the number of people we have on the books. That is our duty. It would be irresponsible of me to say that we can recruit 1,000 or 2,000 people more than those for whom we can provide a reasonable number of paid...

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...our resources in health, education and welfare. There is no mention of the fact that we slashed our national debt by more than two thirds. There is no mention of the fact that we put 3,500 extra garda on the streets, 10,000 extra nurses and doctors in our hospitals and 7,000 more teachers in our schools, and created 10,000 SNA posts. There is no mention of the fact that we have invested...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Willie O'Dea: An Garda Síochána have the primary responsibility for law and order, including the protection of the internal security of the State. Among the roles assigned to the Defence Forces is the provision of aid to the civil power (meaning in practice to assist, when requested, an Garda Síochána), which duties include the protection and guarding of vital installations, the provision of certain...

Written Answers — Naval Service Operations: Naval Service Operations (26 May 2009)

Willie O'Dea: I propose to take Questions Nos. 340 and 341 together. Responsibility for the prevention of drug trafficking rests primarily with the Garda Síochána and the Revenue Commissioners. However, the White Paper on Defence provides for a security role for the Naval Service to assist and support the civil authorities in this important work. Government measures to improve law enforcement in relation...

Written Answers — Search and Rescue Service: Search and Rescue Service (19 May 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ..., lakes and waterways in this country. Prior to the Irish Coast Guard, responsibility was with the Irish Marine Emergency Service (IMES) of the Department of the Marine and Natural Resources. An Garda Síochána have lead responsibility for land based search and rescue. The Air Corps does not have now and did not have in the past full responsibility for the provision of search and...

Written Answers — Defence Force Representative Associations: Defence Force Representative Associations (13 May 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...or any other body without the consent of the Minister. Accordingly, the Representative Associations, RACO and PDFORRA cannot be affiliated to ICTU at present. A similar arrangement applies to the Garda Síochána Representative Associations. The basis for the prohibition is that it would be inappropriate to apply the provision of the Industrial Relations Act 1990 to members of the...

Written Answers — Air Corps Operations: Air Corps Operations (6 May 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...ambulance service on the basis of agreed arrangements with the Department of Health & Children, and the provision of assistance in relation to civil emergencies in response to requests from the An Garda Síochána, and the principal response agencies such as the Irish Coast Guard. These services are provided as the need arises and within the available capability of the Air Corps, having...

Written Answers — National Emergency Plan: National Emergency Plan (6 May 2009)

Willie O'Dea: I chair the Government Task Force on Emergency Planning which includes Ministers, senior officials of government departments, senior officers of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces and officials of other key public authorities, which have a lead or support role in Government emergency planning. The Government Task Force meets on a regular basis. The most recent meeting took place...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Operations: Defence Forces Operations (6 May 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...of drug trafficking rests primarily with the Customs Service of the Revenue Commissioners. Responsibility for the prevention of crime, including people trafficking, rests primarily with An Garda Síochána. However, the White Paper on Defence provides for a security role for the Naval Service and the Air Corps to assist and support the civil authorities in this important work....

Written Answers — Air Corps Operations: Air Corps Operations (6 May 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...to provide a range of military and non-military services in support of the State. These services include the provision of a 24 hour general helicopter capability for a variety of tasks, including Garda Síochána support; the provision of a Ministerial Air Transport Service, the provision of fishery protection patrol services to agreed standards, the provision of an air ambulance service...

Written Answers — National Emergency Plan: National Emergency Plan (6 May 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...planning high on the agenda of all government departments. The Framework for Major Emergency Management is the document that sets out a structure enabling the Principal Response Agencies (An Garda Síochána, the Health Service Executive and Local Authorities) to prepare for, and make a coordinated response to, major emergencies resulting from events such as fires, transport accidents,...

Defence Forces Equipment. (6 May 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...made to me to the effect that our lack of fighter aircraft interferes with training. A function of the Defence Forces, including the Air Corps, is to act as an aid to the civil power, namely, the Garda Síochána. I presume that the Revenue Commissioners are included in this. Discussions are always ongoing between the military authorities and the Garda and Revenue Commissioners.

Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Willie O'Dea: .... I had the opportunity to listen to my constituency colleagues, Deputies Noonan and Kieran O'Donnell, and I have taken very careful note of what they said. Deputy Noonan made a point about the Garda Reserve and the Reserve Defence Forces and the apparent mismatch between sections 4 and 13. The Minister can deal with that matter in his winding-up speech and I will bring it to his...

Written Answers — Emergency Planning: Emergency Planning (23 Apr 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...cannot be released for security purposes. The most important defence against any attack is external vigilance, detection and prevention by the security forces. The necessary resources of the Garda Síochána who have primary responsibility for the security of the State and the Defence Forces are deployed to this end.

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (24 Mar 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...at the Department of the Taoiseach. Under a long-standing arrangement, all Government Ministers and certain other office holders are provided with a State car, which is driven by a member of an Garda Síochána from a pool of Gardaí who are allocated on a full-time basis to Ministers. These Gardaí provide personal protection in addition to their driving duties. The cost of this...