Results 21-40 of 548 for garda speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...put together terms of reference, a scoping exercise. His Department has rejected those terms of reference and narrowed them further. This is absolutely outrageous. This was not only a failure of An Garda Síochána, it was a failure of the court system and a failure of communication, North and South, because the individual responsible for Shane's death had been involved in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...axe around. He approached a pensioner and threatened to kill him and other residents and to burn them out of their homes. He was taken before the courts and released on bail. In fairness to An Garda Síochána, it opposed bail. It had made arrests previously. My serious difficulty is that I have met residents of that housing development in recent times and they are absolutely...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...into the record. The whole community in the area in question is asking why this criminal thug, who violently assaulted a pensioner, has not been arrested. The pensioner in question was taken to a Garda station yesterday. His family took him to the station where gardaí were too busy to take a statement. We are now 72 hours on from this incident. The victim has not been questioned...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...today on issues relating to the Defence Forces. We have asked that the Taoiseach come to the Seanad to address our wider concerns in this regard. The aspects of this legislation relating to the Garda Síochána are welcome, but we must look now to extending the same courtesy to members of the Defence Forces. To reiterate, these provisions do not give gardaí the right to...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the Minister of State for attending the Seanad to discuss this Bill. As he will recall, during this Bill's progression in the Dáil, Sinn Féin referenced its Trade Union (Garda Síochána and Defence Forces) Bill 2017 in the debate. Our Bill, if enacted, would allow members of the Irish Defence Forces and of An Garda Síochána to be classified as workers in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion (19 Feb 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., in The Sunday Business Post. Dr. Byrne pointed to the need for all the agencies in the State, including the ODCE, the Data Protection Commissioner, the computer crime investigation unit of An Garda Síochána, and the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation, that are tasked with looking at corporate crime to come under one roof. I want to hear the ODCE's thoughts, both on this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Feb 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...been a better time for white-collar crime. He referred to the dramatic under-resourcing of a range of agencies, including the ODCE that had one accountant at the time, which was shocking, the Garda bureau of fraud investigation and the Garda computer crime investigation unit. It was a mockery when we consider our State was brought down and made bankrupt by the reckless behaviour of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion (5 Feb 2019)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is Ms Greene satisfied with the current level of co-operation and interaction between the ODCE and the Garda and the DPP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., as legislators, to try to make some practical changes. Towards the end of Mr. Donohoe's presentation, he brought attention to this issue of greater collaboration between the Department and the Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB, and the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS. Has he made representation to the Departments on this issue and what has been their response?

Seanad: Death of Shane O'Farrell: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...justice system in regard to what happened and the circumstances that led to this case are addressed.This was a whole-of-justice-system failing. It was not just a failing of numerous members of An Garda Síochána from the front line to the senior management; it was also a failure of our courts system, our prosecution service and of communications with our nearest neighbour in the...

Seanad: Death of Shane O'Farrell: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It accepts the Garda version of events again and again. It does not deal with the fact that the PSNI asked for the records and received them from An Garda Síochána but no analysis was done. It does not deal with the fact that a vehicle with no insurance and no NCT which was being driven by a drug addict, with a number of other addicts as passengers, was not seized. The car was...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...to jail, yet, repeatedly after that, he was not, and this is before he knocked down Shane O'Farrell. There are huge questions.It should never have been left to GSOC alone. It was not a matter just for An Garda Síochána. This was a whole-of-system failing. Any decent citizen of the State would see there has to be a public inquiry into this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Feb 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Garda Reviewis circulated in Inishowen, for God's sake. Publishing in two or three newspapers will ensure that the notice is read by somebody who lives in the community and will be affected by the decision. I have made that basic point before yet it still has not been accepted by the Department. In recent weeks I received a letter that still says that the Donegal Democratis a newspaper...

Seanad: Defence Forces (Veterans Lapel Badge) Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...not have a situation where they require their income to be subsidised in order to get by. My party colleagues, Deputies David Cullinane and Aengus Ó Snodaigh, have published a Bill that would allow members of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces to join trade unions. In the interest of the security of the State, the Bill does not propose to facilitate their ability to...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...the presentation of 1916 medals to the fire and rescue service, which is only fair. Firemen from different parts of Ireland have raised this matter with me. The Defence Forces, members of An Garda Síochána and the National Ambulance Service received 1916 commemorative medals. The only front-line emergency service to be omitted was the fire and rescue service. Fire and rescue...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...It is worth considering the words of Remy Farrell, who, as the House will be aware, is a senior counsel who often prosecutes cases for the State. He spoke out about what was going on, namely, that the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation was absolutely swamped a number of years back, leading to just one in ten cases it was examining coming to prosecution. In Drennan of the ODCE spoke out...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have previously raised the issue of 1916 commemorative medals rightly being presented to members of An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces, and the National Ambulance Service. However, fire and rescue personnel, with the exception of County Kilkenny, were not presented with such a medal. They feel that this is indicative of the treatment they receive and the disrespect that...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Mar 2017)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...and was news to me. I knew that members of the Defence Forces were presented with 1916 commemorative medals last year to mark the centenary. I am led to believe that all members of the Defence Forces, An Garda Síochána and the National Ambulance Service were presented with commemorative medals last year. The only front-line emergency service that were not is, apparently, the...

Seanad: Transport, Tourism and Sport: Statements (16 Nov 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Irish Coast Guard. The Minister correctly referred to it in glowing terms in his comments. He knows the service is one of four core primary emergency response services in the State, the others being the Garda, the fire service and the ambulance service. It is asking to be placed on a statutory footing and for legislation to be put in place to ensure it has the same status, resources and...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... They call for legislation to put the Coast Guard on a statutory footing. As the House knows, there are four primary response agencies in the State: the fire service, the ambulance service, the Garda and the Irish Coast Guard. The latter is the Cinderella in this arrangement, and we need to put it on a statutory footing and resource it adequately.They are being asked to save lives...