Results 81-100 of 231 for garda speaker:Thomas Pringle

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (21 Oct 2021)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I listened to the figures for Garda numbers in Donegal and compared them with the answers to similar questions, for example, on Garda numbers in Longford. It is interesting that Donegal has three times the population of Longford and is probably five times its size but has proportionally fewer gardaí available to it. This is very...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Oct 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles assigned to the Donegal division; the age profile of the vehicles; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51722/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Thomas Pringle: There is a reference in the ICCL's report to the issues we have been discussing with the Garda and the Policing Authority in terms of the growth of oversight bodes and interaction with them. Can that be dealt with in this legislation and, if so, how? That is important. Years ago, we had no oversight but we are now going to have so much oversight that there will be confusion about who is...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (13 Oct 2021)

Thomas Pringle: There is something I wish to bring forward on Report Stage in relation to An Garda Síochána having not complied with obligations under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 in relation to providing Irish-speaking gardaí in Gaeltacht areas. I wish to bring an amendment at Report Stage in relation to that so I want to flag that.

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...separated from the families and communities that are most invested in their recovery and success. A serious concern of mine, which is shared by the Irish Penal Reform Trust, is the suggestion that Garda youth diversion projects target children aged between eight and 11 years for preventative measures on the basis of their possible future criminal involvement. I find this suggestion...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Service Executive (8 Jul 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...has had the report since February 2020 and has chosen to take absolutely no action on it. A whistleblower first raised this issue in 2008 and since then has been in touch with the HSE, HIQA and the Garda in relation to it. This person had great faith in whistleblower procedures and in the system but the system has let them down because I am standing here 13 years later, having...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Programme (2 Jun 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of projects supported by the Garda youth diversion programme in 2021; and the number of beneficiaries under the programme. [30133/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Programme (2 Jun 2021)

Thomas Pringle: 210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding for the Garda youth diversion programme in each of the years 2007 to 2021, in tabular form. [30134/21]

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...proportionality test; better consultation with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC; pre-legislative scrutiny; Oireachtas approval; a limit on broad powers; a regular review of powers extended to gardaí and Ministers; and a human rights impact assessment. It is an excellent and measured analysis and I thank the ICCL for consistently providing much-needed analysis to...

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...Cork and Henry Street stores and elected representatives. Michelle had not had much sleep after trying to stop the removal of stock from the Waterford store on Monday night. She told us that about 40 gardaí in six Garda vans were deployed to the store, half of whom were apparently from the public order unit. The Garda has been involved in allowing KPMG to recover stock from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...around having differing regulations and regimes on both sides of the Border. One of the initiatives announced yesterday, which did not come out of the PR-stunt last Saturday, was that the Garda had set up a hotline - a tout line or a rat line - through which neighbours are asked to tout on neighbours. On what planet is this Government if that is its response and that of officialdom in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...take part in an interview on local radio yesterday to discuss the situation. That did not happen. It was agreed that walk-in centres would be announced yesterday. They were announced after the Garda announced its confidential telephone line through which people could inform the Garda where incidents and breaches of Covid-19 restrictions are taking place. As far as I am aware, Donegal...

European Union Regulation: Motion (29 Apr 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...arm of Europol is its European Financial and Economic Crime Centre, EFECC. The EFECC is said to have played a part in working on the intelligence provided by different countries on an Irish criminal network. This led to the Criminal Asset Bureau of An Garda Síochána taking action against a criminal gang. There were fund transfers in excess of €4 million identified from...

Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...very difficult to enforce. There are huge issues around intergenerational crime and poverty, peer pressure, threatening behaviour, extortion and intimidation to be addressed. It is simply not enough to say, "The gardaí are on your side". Many of the communities where children are lured into taking part in criminal activity do not have a positive relationship with the Garda. They...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (30 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...being stopped by the PSNI in the North. The officers were able to check my car on their computer and tell me it was not taxed. It actually was taxed, which is a separate issue, and it seems the Garda system was not updated. My point, however, is that the PSNI officers were able to access the Garda system and tell me about my car. Subsequently, I was stopped three times on the way back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Victims' Testimony in Cases of Rape and Sexual Assault: Discussion. (23 Mar 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...questions that I wished to ask have already been asked so I will put a number of additional ones now. When thinking about this meeting today and the number of rape cases that are reported to an Garda Síochána but do not actually progress to the courts, I thought that such cases would also be a very important part of this meeting and how the experience for those persons could...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (10 Feb 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the hunger strike by a person (details supplied) in County Meath; the procedures for such instances; the reason An Garda Síochána would be involved; if reports are filed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7309/21]

EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Motion (20 Jan 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...surrender." Late last year, Dr. Vicky Conway, produced a very useful paper on Brexit and cross-border policing. In the paper, Dr. Conway raised excellent points about the relationship between An Garda Síochána and the PSNI and the mechanisms which have been used to strengthen cross-border policing and security co-operation on the island of Ireland, particularly in areas such as...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Thomas Pringle: ...time that other legislation has been in place and the number of times it has been used to deal with addressing this sort of offence. When one cannot find an offence in law, it would mean that the Garda or the DPP would have to be inventive to have provision made for it there. To have it defined might be-----

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (26 Nov 2020)

Thomas Pringle: 328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigations relating to deaths in custody and deaths after a period of detention in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39332/20]