Results 121-140 of 375 for garda speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Anti-Social Behaviour: Anti-Social Behaviour (24 Mar 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...on the lands owned by my Department at the Curragh and my Department is aware of the danger and possible damage being caused. Officials from my Department have, in the past been in contact with an Garda Síochána to prevent occurrences of this nature but due to the vast size of the Curragh it is not possible for it to be controlled all the time. My Department is committed to...

Written Answers — Ministerial Travel: Ministerial Travel (11 Mar 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...168 together. There are a total of ten helicopters in operational service with the Air Corps at present, comprising six AW139 utility helicopters, two EC135 P2 light utility helicopters and two Garda Air Support Unit EC135 T2 helicopters, which are owned by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and operated by the Air Corps. All ten helicopters are based at Casement...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (10 Mar 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 Siochana Representative Associations. The basis for the prohibition is that it would be inappropriate to apply the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act 1990 to members of the Defence...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (10 Mar 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...statement. While personnel from all services are liable for and do serve overseas, as a matter of policy Air Corps and Naval assets are not deployed overseas. The deployment of members of An Garda Siochána overseas is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The main overseas missions, in which Defence Forces personnel are currently deployed, are the...

Written Answers — Naval Service Patrols: Naval Service Patrols (10 Mar 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 — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2009)

Willie O'Dea: The primary responsibility for the maintenance and restoration of the public peace rests with An Garda Siochána. Among the assigned roles to the Defence Forces in the White Paper on Defence is to aid the civil power (meaning in practice to assist, when requested, An Garda Siochána). The Defence Forces Annual Training Plan provides for training in a broad spectrum of activities, including...

Defence Forces Operations. (10 Mar 2009)

Willie O'Dea: The primary responsibility for the maintenance of law and order rests with An Garda Síochána. The Defence Forces, pursuant to their role of rendering aid to the civil power, ATCP, assist the Garda as required. Requests for aid to the civil power are normally made by a member of An Garda Síochána not below the rank of Inspector. The explosive ordnance disposal, EOD, team responds when a...

Defence Forces Operations. (10 Mar 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...year, and the number of hoaxes was ten, which, again, at approximately one in three is a repeat of last year's pattern. That is worrying. The explosives ordinance team gets the request from the Garda and it has to act on it. There is a difference between hoax calls and calls to hoax devices. The fire service receives hoax calls but the calls received by the explosives ordinance team are...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Operations: Defence Forces Operations (12 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: The primary responsibility for the maintenance of law and order rests with An Garda Síochána. The Defence Forces, pursuant to their role of rendering aid to the civil power (ATCP) assist the Gardaí as required. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team respond when a request is made by An Garda Síochána, to the relevant Brigade, for assistance in dealing with a suspect device or for...

Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (5 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...from a private residence of a member of the Defence Forces on 26th June 2008. The laptop was encrypted and sensitive or private data was not compromised. The burglary is being investigated by the Garda Síochána and the laptop has not yet been recovered. A mobile phone issued to a member of the Defence Forces was lost at sea and not recovered.

Written Answers — Explosive Devices: Explosive Devices (4 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: The primary responsibility for the maintenance of law and order rests with an Garda Síochána. The Defence Forces, pursuant to their role of rendering aid to the civil power, assist the Gardaí as required. Requests for aid to the civil power are normally made by a member of an Garda Síochána not below the rank of Inspector. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team respond when a request...

Crime Prevention. (4 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...Guard as the need arises and within their available capability. Responsibility for the prevention of drug trafficking and people trafficking rests primarily with the Revenue Commissioners and An Garda Síochána, respectively. 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 most...

Crime Prevention. (4 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...Deputy O'Shea said. It was decided in the early 1990s to set up a joint task force comprising the Revenue Commissioners, who have primary responsibility in this regard, the Naval Service and the Garda Síochána. When intelligence is received on a possible drug importation into the country, the task force gets together to monitor the situation, to prevent the drugs coming in and...

Crime Prevention. (4 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: As I already outlined, the position is that when something comes to the attention of the Garda Síochána, a task force is put together involving the Naval Service.

Crime Prevention. (4 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: No. What happens if something comes to the attention of the Naval Service is that it contacts the Garda Síochána and takes direction from it. That is my understanding of how the system operates. Regarding the €15 million to which Deputy O'Shea adverted earlier, that will not affect our programme of Naval Service vessel replacement. We are evaluating tenders on the replacement of those...

Defence Forces Representative Associations. (4 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...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 provisions of the Industrial Relations Act 1990 to members of the Defence...

Defence Forces Representative Associations. (4 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...conflict of interest in such a situation as they might be affiliated to ICTU, but be used, as it were, to undermine a strike by another section of the public sector. The same thing applies to the Garda Síochána. With regard to admitting the military to the industrial relations structure, we have been to the forefront of Europe where it is acknowledged, by PDFORRA and more widely, there...

Defence Forces Representative Associations. (4 Feb 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ...me again, I will consider it afresh. I could not see the change being made in isolation. In other words, I cannot see a situation whereby we would let the military avail of the facility while the Garda is prevented from doing so, because the reasons it is not regarded as appropriate for one organisation are the same reasons for the other. However, if the request comes to me again, I...

Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (18 Dec 2008)

Willie O'Dea: ...50ft × 80ft Coláiste Na Toirbhirte, Headford 30mtrs × 25mtrs Community Hall, Portumna 50ft × 16ft Community Centre, Oughterard 23ft × 20ft Kerry Hut Site, Caherciveen — Former Garda Station site. Hutsite only Leitrim Parochial Hall, Drumlea, Corrawallen No information available Ballroom, Drumshambo No information available Community Hall, Glenfarne 49ft × 191⁄2ft...

Estimates for Public Services 2008 (11 Dec 2008)

Willie O'Dea: ...Reform, Probation Service staff and of certain other services including payments under cash-limited schemes administered by that Office, and payment of certain grants and grants-in-aid. Vote 20 — Garda Síochána (Supplementary). That a supplementary sum not exceeding €1,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of...