Results 81-100 of 167 for garda speaker:Michael McNamara

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...I urge the Minister to move away from laws which are unenforceable. It slipped out into the media that the movement restrictions in these regulations are not, will not or cannot be enforced by An Garda Síochána. The Minister should move towards addressing the general health regime. The Minister says help is available for people who have mental health issues. In the...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: I very much endorse what Deputy Connolly has just said with regard to An Garda Síochána, both the good and the bad. One of the things all of these tribunals have taught us is that nobody is above reproach and accountability. A historical incident in Bunratty, County Clare, involves the Nugent family who deserve justice and to know what happened to their brother. Their father went...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...a reasonable excuse to be out of them. One of the excuses was to carry out essential services or go to an essential retail outlet. That gives a huge amount of power to individual members of An Garda Síochána and is a very difficult position to put those individual members in. It is a power I would not feel comfortable having. I would not want to determine whether it is...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: The Government announced childcare facilities for essential front-line workers. Essential front-line workers are defined as healthcare workers only. These regulations are applied by members of An Garda Síochána. They are excluded. Why is that?

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...than this disease has proven to date, and before that. By definition, it is a solitary activity by its nature. I ask the Taoiseach to bear that in mind in easing restrictions. The idea that An Garda Síochána's time would be taken up with stopping people going out in boats spaced out across large lakes, such as Lough Derg and Lough Corrib, is ridiculous. It highlights the need...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...of movement with regard to the case taken and won by PDFORRA against Ireland at the European Social Rights Committee. It very much measured a similar successful case taken by the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors. There has been very little movement with regard to the implementation of either and certainly with regard to giving some degree of collective bargaining rights to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Communications Surveillance (26 Jan 2016)

Michael McNamara: 285. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the telephone records of any Member of the 31st Dáil were provided to An Garda Síochána, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission or the Defence Forces; if she will authorise telecommunications operators to release such information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3013/16]

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...of vulnerability which accompanies that is something this Government and previous Governments needed to tackle. I very much welcome that the Government has introduced a Bill which would give the Garda greater tools to tackle the blight that is rural burglary. Since I was elected to the Dáil, I have attended many joint policing committee meetings in Clare County Council. Burglaries...

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Michael McNamara: When will the independent policing authority be established to sever the direct links between the Government and policing because this is discrediting An Garda Síochána at this stage?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (17 Nov 2015)

Michael McNamara: 342. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the original Garda Síochána file on the investigation of the death of a person (details supplied) still exists, or if it has been archived; and if the file will be released to the family of the deceased. [40674/15]

Industrial Relations (Members of the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: I will address a number of points that were raised. According to the Minister of State, the right to strike of An Garda Síochána - it was decided that Ireland was in breach of the European Social Charter because this was denied - raised serious issues. I accept this in terms of the security of the State. Deputy Calleary went further and ruled it out as being incompatible with the...

Industrial Relations (Members of the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This Bill arises out of the exclusion of members of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces from industrial relations law that applies to all other workers in the State. Gardaí and members of the Defence Forces are precluded from joining a trade union, engaging in collective bargaining and taking industrial action, while...

Office of Fiscal Prosecution Bill 2015: First Stage (2 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...but the offices involved in them have publicly stated that all their resources were used to pursue these investigations and I am concerned that if corporate crimes are being reported to the Garda, be it in the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's constituency of Galway East or in Clare or Limerick, the force does not have the resources or the capability to investigate them. As we are about to rise for...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...O'Sullivan and Deputy Healy, and as most Deputies in the Chamber would agree. There is drug use and abuse in practically every town and village in this country. That is despite the fact that considerable Garda resources are dedicated to the war on drugs. In a recent reply to a parliamentary question, the Minister for Justice and Equality stated that on 31 July 2014, the latest date...

Industrial Relations (Members of the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces) Bill 2015: First Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Michael McNamara: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the right of representative associations established under the Garda Síochána Act 2005, the Garda Síochána Act 1924 or the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990, to carry on negotiations for the fixing of pay or other conditions of employment of their members and to join national umbrella organisation...

Road Traffic (No.2) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McNamara: ...people coming in here and they are saying things like, 'I'd have nothing to do with the guards; I wouldn't give them the time of day now.'" This is Ireland where we have always had regard for the Garda and there have always been good relations between the community and the Garda. Whether we like it or we do not, whether it is right or not, there is an increasing perception of unfairness....

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)

Michael McNamara: ...deported, and that Ireland is her home but she would probably spend a lot of money and that it would take about five or six years to sort out the mess. They said she could expect letters from the Garda Síochána, the Garda National Immigration Bureau and that she would have to travel to Dublin frequently. In effect, her time would be wasted and she would probably not be allowed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: ...that. Is it normal that such letters would not be furnished to a Minister in the context of the volume of correspondence coming through? Is it normal that letters from the Attorney General or the Garda Commissioner would not be furnished to the Minister?

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Michael McNamara: Much good has come from the unfortunate events of recent weeks. Whistleblowers have acquired a new status and respect, largely as a result of the report of the Garda Inspectorate commissioned by the Minister. A commission of inquiry into Garda telephone recording led by Mr. Justice Nial Fennelly of the Supreme Court will shed light on recordings dating back to the 1980s, including when they...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Michael McNamara: I commend the Garda Inspectorate on its report. It has done the State a considerable service in producing a very detailed report with a long list of recommendations. I thank and commend the Minister, Deputy Shatter, on having commissioned that report. In an attempt to politicise this debate it has been overlooked that the Minister, Deputy Shatter commissioned the report at a time when much...