Results 61-80 of 318 for garda speaker:Seán Sherlock

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (21 Nov 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I am viscerally shocked by the information we have received today. I want to get clarity in my own mind that the Minister is satisfied that those files have now been sent to the Garda. Given that the Minister only received the information late last night I would like to know what has occurred, procedurally, in the less than 12 hours or so since she has been in receipt of the information. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance Issues in Scouting Ireland: Discussion (21 Nov 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...' appearance in May. At that point, there was much that we did not know. Mr. Elliot had said at that stage that records were "kept securely in fireproof filing cabinets in Larch Hill" and the Garda and Tusla had been informed about that. We are a number of months on in the process and we have a picture of the number of alleged abusers. We may not have been presented with a finite number...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (20 Nov 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda information messages issued by An Garda Síochána to persons whose lives are believed to be in danger from criminals in the past six years by year and district, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47885/18]

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...our own trumpets but I do not think there will be a rush of journalistic commentators or others queueing up to make the point clear. In his report, Mr. Justice Charleton rejects the sworn evidence of two Garda Commissioners and other senior Garda officers. The evidence of the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality is rejected as "improbable". The evidence of Tusla...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (2 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 547. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers trained to interview child victims of sexual abuse according to the Garda Inspectorate [39767/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Accommodation (10 Jul 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if requests from the Department of Justice and Equality to refurbish, renovate or make repairs to a habitable standard official Garda residences for the purposes of providing accommodation have been reviewed; if so, when; the location and the number of requests made; and the number that were expedited in each of the years 2015 to 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Accommodation (10 Jul 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a budget allocation to refurbish and make habitable official Garda living accommodation. [30919/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of canines operating in An Garda Síochána; the amount it costs to train same; and the supports for canines on duty and retired. [29409/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff outside An Garda Síochána the new Garda Commissioner plans to bring to the role. [29496/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...are nine such premises. I asked the question lately of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. I asked him what number of residences were under his remit and how many were available to An Garda Síochána for official accommodation. He told me, for instance, that there were nine in Kilkenny, 19 in the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's fair county, and 34 in my county. I refer...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...when I table a question in this House on matters relating to the OPW. The commissioners could be described as semi-autonomous. The issue is that the matter has gone up the line through An Garda Síochána and has come back down the line. There was a figure involved for refurbishment. It could be argued that the figure mentioned is slightly high for what needs to be done. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Accommodation (20 Jun 2018)

Seán Sherlock: This is a very simple issue. I have been in contact with a member of An Garda Síochána who would be very happy, should the opportunity arise, to take up an offer of official accommodation in Buttevant, County Cork. He is a person of impeccable character, as are his family. I have been going around the houses on this issue with the Minister for Justice and Equality and the...

Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...Minister stated that while the criminal investigation is now concluded, there is still an investigation under way that could result in a recommendation for disciplinary action against one or more gardaí. He stated more or less the same thing tonight. I hope I am not reading too much into that. He said: "I assure the House that if such further action can best be advanced by a...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (12 Jun 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...on the Future of Policing in Ireland. If we are to look at GSOC specifically, we endorse last December's publication in its proposals for legislative change and we accept the thrust of its 2016 report on Garda oversight and accountability. We stated that the commission should have regard to the legal advice to the previous Government that under the Constitution, policing belongs...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...shortly. If we fast-forward to the Minister's contribution today on the GSOC investigation, it is important to quote from his speech where he states:GSOC is conscious that all parties, including gardaí under investigation, have rights and are not jeopardising the ongoing disciplinary investigation by naming individuals who have the right to be heard and offer and explanation for the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (23 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which stations are manned by single Garda officers; the supports in this regard; the geographic area of each; and the length of time they are planned to be single Garda stations in tabular form. [22692/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Procedures (23 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 4 October 2017, the number of incidents since 2015 in which sums of money, confiscated money or evidence in a case were found to be missing, stolen or lost from a Garda station by the amount of missing, stolen or lost money involved, the date it was reported and the Garda station involved. [22689/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Accommodation (23 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is expected all Garda accommodation in the State will be filled; and the engagements he has had with the OPW in this regard. [22691/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Foreign Conflicts (23 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagement he has had with An Garda Síochána with regard to Irish citizens in Syria engaged in the conflict there. [22688/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: The Garda, Tusla and all of the relevant agencies-----