Results 21-40 of 167 for garda speaker:Michael McNamara

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 43: In page 54, to delete lines 33 to 38, and in page 55, to delete lines 1 to 5. The purpose of these amendments is to continue to facilitate the Garda Commissioner in appointing persons as members of Garda staff. However, they also remove the effect of civilian staff of An Garda Síochána who are civil servants of the Government immediately before the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: It seems to be the case both to me and to the few serving members of An Garda Síochána who talk to me.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...the right to come back to it on Report Stage. There is one point I wish to raise, however. It relates to this idea that we will have a single organisation and everybody will just work for An Garda Síochána without differentiation between members and staff - that there will be a corps of civilian staff and members of An Garda Síochána working arm in arm and hand in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...16, to delete “to withhold his or her services”. Amendments Nos. 63 and 153 are similar. In 2014 or thereabouts, the European Confederation of Police, EuroCOP, to which the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI, is affiliated, took a case to the European Committee of Social Rights and was successful. The Committee determined that it was contrary to the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wish to raise section 207. I appreciate that I was not present. The Bill progressed with considerable haste and I wish to raise my reservations about the fact that a search of a Garda station, etc, must be notified and essentially requires the agreement of the Garda Commissioner to do this. I am not entirely sure that that is consistent with a fully independent investigative role and is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Michael McNamara: 976. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who were redeployed or retired from the Clare Garda division during 2021 and 2022; the number of members of An Garda Síochána that were assigned to the Clare Garda division for duty during both years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17275/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Michael McNamara: ..., it does certainly suggest that political policing would be possible under the old statutory regime. I am glad to see that has changed to the extent that section 133 of the Bill now states: the Garda Commissioner shall keep the Authority fully informed of the following: (a) matters relevant to the functions of the Authority; (b) any other matters that, in the opinion of the...

Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (25 Jan 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...security information cannot be made available to the appellant and recited in open court to be written about. That is not the way our legal system has operated up to now. Essentially, the Garda, the Director of Public Prosecutions or whoever is prosecuting a case has a determination to make. They have evidence and have two choices. If they want to use the evidence against an accused,...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: ..., I have seen many successes of the war on drugs: the Collopys, and the McCarthy-Dundons were just learning their trade on the streets of Limerick at that time. They went on to become major drug dealers. The Garda took them on and put them away. George "The Penguin" Mitchell was jailed. John Gilligan was jailed. The Kinahans are now on the run. Has all of this led to the war on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (15 Nov 2022)

Michael McNamara: 473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide figures relating to domestic abuse incidents across all divisions of An Garda Síochána in the year to date, including the number of calls received by An Garda Síochána to respond to domestic abuse incidents; the number of criminal charges referred for breaches of domestic abuse court...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...components because of this dispute between China and America and access to semiconductors and such. Who would be in a position to give that information to the Minister of State other than An Garda Síochána? I find it difficult to know what information An Garda Síochána or, indeed, any part of our national security apparatus would have on the state of play of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Airport Security (13 Jul 2022)

Michael McNamara: 442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the cost of the additional Garda presence at Dublin Airport on the weekend beginning 4 June 2022 to supervise the security queues through departures has been reimbursed to the Exchequer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38154/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Airport Security (5 Jul 2022)

Michael McNamara: 199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the cost of the additional Garda presence at Dublin Airport on the weekend beginning 4 June 2022 to supervise the security queues through departures has been reimbursed to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36131/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Airport Security (5 Jul 2022)

Michael McNamara: 543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to the Exchequer of the additional Garda presence at Dublin Airport on the weekend beginning 4 June 2022 to supervise the security queues through departures; and if that cost was reimbursed to her Department by the Dublin Airport Authority. [36128/22]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...could subvert a trial in Ireland I find either farcical or deeply worrying - take your pick. Neither is a vindication of the current system. Is Islamic State so prevalent in Ireland that the Garda cannot counter the threat it poses, or is it simply farcical to suggest that Islamic State could subvert a trial in this State? I think it is the latter. Of course, it is non-challengeable.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: This relates to the need for profound reform of the legislation governing An Garda Síochána, rather than putting another sticking plaster over what is increasingly a festering wound. The Garda Commissioner appointed somebody to investigate the case and it was subsequently found that somebody had been procured to give evidence against the garda concerned. All of this was brought to...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...struck down the existing practice, or at least found it lacked a lawful basis. We are now proposing to introduce this system on exactly such a basis. I am convinced it is a considerable waste of Garda time not to have a presenting officer. I am not convinced at all, however, that a return to the status quois not an equal waste of Garda time. We have this great habit in Ireland of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Airport Security (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: 1347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional Garda presence at Dublin Airport on the weekend beginning 4 June 2022 to supervise the security queues through departures; and the number of gardaí on duty at the airport on 4 June 2022, compared to 5 June 2021, 30 May 2020 and 1 June 2019. [30336/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Insurance Coverage (6 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...and the broader community. This event is organised by a committee and enjoys broad, popular support. It is a big event run with the co-operation of the surrounding community, as well as the Garda. It has not given rise to any trouble so it comes as a big surprise to me, as it will to many others, that it is danger because of insurance. This may be the result Brexit. We also...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Mar 2022)

Michael McNamara: 574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 635 of 22 February 2022, if she has received further information from An Garda Síochána regarding the new operational uniform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16354/22]