Results 161-180 of 231 for garda speaker:Thomas Pringle

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...Minister for Finance. Let me remind the Taoiseach of the consequences facing rural Ireland because the Government refuses to intervene: an ongoing transport crisis, including the latest Bus Éireann dispute, Garda station closures, post office closures, delays in rolling out broadband, continued emigration, and banking closures. While the Government may not be able to intervene in...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Thomas Pringle: I will be brief. We heard on "Morning Ireland" this morning that the Medical Bureau of Road Safety audited 200 breath test units, which the Garda figures showed to have done over 400,000 tests. The units had actually only done 200,000 tests. This was in August 2015. The bureau immediately contacted the Garda to tell it there was a problem with the reporting. It was, however, ten months...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Eacnamaíochta, Sóisialacha agus Cultúir), 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Mar 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...that provide basic security for people in this country and which they are fundamentally entitled to. Why is there such opposition to water charges, the property tax, closure of post offices and Garda stations, and cuts to bus services and health services, including mental health and disability supports? Not to mention the catastrophic housing crisis or, as I prefer to call it, crisis of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (22 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...the progress of the civilianisation of front-line immigration control procedures at Dublin Airport; the number of civilianised Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, staff versus Garda National Immigration Bureau staff; the clerical grade of the civilianised staff; her future plans for civilianisation at other ports of entry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...'s contribution yesterday. The motion comes from the appalling handling and disgraceful treatment of Sergeant Maurice McCabe. He dared to raise concerns about corruption and malpractice in the Garda but he was the only one disciplined for it. He has been raising these concerns for 15 years. While the O'Higgins inquiry was ongoing we know Tusla had an active file on false allegations...

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...the six questions posed by Sergeant McCabe in his questionnaire. If I heard the Tánaiste correctly, she said earlier that the reason she could not answer the four questions that apply directly to the Garda is that she could possibly risk prejudicing the tribunal. Is it the Tánaiste's contention that the Minister, Deputy Zappone, has prejudiced the tribunal by answering the two...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Plan (31 Jan 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...way in which it is intended the action plan for rural development will increase social provisions in rural towns and maintain the presence of existing social provisions such as post offices, rural Garda stations and bus routes in view of the fact that these vital services are needed to attract new residents into these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4167/17]

Establishment of Commission of Investigation into the Stardust Tragedy: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2017)

Thomas Pringle: ...Their search for truth has been obstructed at every turn by nearly everyone who had the power to retrieve it. Apart from Mr. Butterly’s own attempts to obstruct justice, the shortcomings of the Garda investigation itself have been called into question, including the Department of Justice’s handling of evidence. Conclusions of arson made by the Keane tribunal report in 1982...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...find that they could not vote because they had registered as postal voters. We should be able to find a mechanism that allows them in the week or ten days before polling day to cast their votes in local Garda stations where ballot papers and ballot boxes would be available so that they might participate fully in the electoral process. I will offer a selfish anecdote in this regard. I...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...back to the 2012 level. It is a pity the Minister did not go back to the jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance and look at the subsidiary payment. The fisherman's tax credit is welcome and it should be of help. The Bill provides for a technical amendment relating to the secondment of gardaí to the Department of Social Protection. I saw a photograph in a Galway newspaper of...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Nov 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...for safety, yet they are liable to be prosecuted for operating a brothel. Other Members mentioned that last weekend four women were fined €200 each for brothel-keeping in Galway, even though the Garda suspected they were trafficked into this country for the purposes of sexual exploitation. It was said that the women denied that was the case, but it is likely they would do so...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...reminds me of the tendency of Governments to think and give the impression that these are isolated instances confined only to one particular part of the country. Allegations of corruption in the Garda investigated as part of the Morris tribunal were seen as a Donegal problem, not a State-wide issue, and we have seen how that has left us. Hence, the Grace case should not be seen as purely...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...back before the courts for any driving offence. That is very important. We need to look also at the greater context and consider the fact that there has been a reduction in the number of gardaí in the traffic corps. The number posted to it dropped by 5% in the 18 months to May this year. There were 711 officers assigned to it in May compared to 749 at the end of 2014. The RSA...

Pharmacy Fees: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...While the money has been repaid to the HSE, it is important that this issue be investigated fully by all the regulatory authorities. The executive has been slow to say whether it will refer this to the Garda fraud squad or the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland. It says it is keeping its counsel on that for the time being. How long will it take officials to decide that this needs to be...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...might cost the State more money in the long run, but the human cost from the failure to act will be too high. It is the asylum applicants and their families who will pay the greatest price in this system. I will now turn to issues relating to crime statistics and the resourcing of the Garda which is vitally important in dealing with the upsurge in gang related crime across the State....

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Thomas Pringle: The Minister might not have been present for the question on the PULSE system and whether spent convictions would be removed from it. This matter relates to amendment No. 48 and interviews with the Garda. Amendment No. 49 highlights how it is possible to do this for certain employment when the Department sees fit to do so. The theme running through this legislation is the need to protect...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Thomas Pringle: I move amendment No. 48:In page 8, to delete lines 29 to 31. I oppose this section, which grants unlimited powers to the Garda to seek information relating to an individual's spent convictions when it is investigating a crime. The legislation appears to place the onus on an individual being questioned by the Garda to disclose spent convictions. I believe that does away with the purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (19 Jan 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 286. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality why the then Garda Commissioner did not disclose in Febuary 2002 that he designated the death of a person (details supplied) as a hit-and-run road traffic accident and gave directions that names of persons (details supplied) were not to be attributed to this death; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2137/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (19 Jan 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 287. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Morris tribunal, which commenced on 28 March 2002, had been informed by her Department or the Garda Commissioner of the redesignation of the death of a person (details supplied) in February 2002 and the fact that the person's death was no longer considered as a murder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2138/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (19 Jan 2016)

Thomas Pringle: 288. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality why in September 2002 the then Garda Commissioner did not make the inquest into the death of a person (details supplied) aware of the redesignation of that person's death; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2139/16]