Results 21-40 of 623 for garda speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...or New Zealand? It is not. It is public health doctors together with staffed and resourced public health teams. That is who calls around to a persons house, rather than the police. How would the Garda know how to deal with mandatory quarantine or public health issues? It is ridiculous and the AGSI is absolutely right. People need to get into their heads how under-resourced and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for Health if Irish citizens are permitted to travel to the UK for family reunification purposes; if partners are considered family; if family reunification is considered essential travel; if An Garda Síochána accept that this is essential travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9644/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for Health if Irish citizens are permitted to travel to the UK for family reunification purposes; if partners are considered family; if family reunification is considered essential travel; if An Garda Síochána accept that this is essential travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5902/21]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have no particular difficulty with the individual nominations, although I do point to the point made by many people about gardaí investigating gardaí. I would like to see more civilian oversight of gardaí to ensure we genuinely have independence in oversight of the Garda and that it is perceived to be independent. Given the recognition and acknowledgement that we need a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Garda Síochána is currently engaged in a joint EU-funded research programme called real time network, text and speaker analytics for combating organised crime, ROXANNE. The programme has been in place since September 2019 and runs to August 2022. Among the participants on this programme is the Israeli Ministry of Public Security, which oversees the Israeli prison service,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the importance of the right to demonstrate and to protest in a functioning democracy. I would like to hear the witnesses' opinions on that. What are the constitutional and legal powers now? Has the Garda the right to stop protests? I will give one example but will not mention the group involved. One group was planning a protest soon and were told by An Garda Síochána that if...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...threat to public health. However, the Government and everybody else accept that these are draconian powers. They are not powers that under normal circumstances one would wish the State or the Garda to have. All of us have accepted that this is an exceptional situation and have allowed power to be given to the State to do things that normally from a civil liberties point of view we would...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (5 Mar 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 417. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a transgender drop-down option in the Garda PULSE system in order to record hate crimes against transgender persons; and if not, if the situation will be rectified. [3670/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: All-Island Civic Dialogue (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...much good if some of those involved are not in full possession of the real story. The Taoiseach says he has not read the report on the front page of one of the national newspapers on hundreds of gardaí being deployed to the Border counties. It is astonishing that he has not read the report. If I understood his reply correctly, the Taoiseach said the deployment had nothing to do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Garda is not a business.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked and unmarked Garda jeeps that came into the fleet in 2017 and to date in 2018; and the number withdrawn during the same period. [39739/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of four-wheel drive vehicles available for use in each Garda district in Dublin as of 21 September 2018. [39740/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Expenditure (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the initial cost of a Garda-controlled CCTV system; and the estimated annual cost of same. [39741/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (2 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda command-and-control vehicles purchased in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and the number withdrawn during the same period. [39742/18]

Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...amendment No. 3:To insert the following after "orders made on persons previously convicted of offences.":"— ensure that any inquiry should extend to the information-sharing systems between the Garda, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the courts; — ensure that any inquiry should extend to the information-sharing systems within the judicial system; and — ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (20 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process in place for a person that is of the view that An Garda Síochána has failed to investigate a potentially serious alleged crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12237/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (23 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the body to which a member of the public can go with a complaint against An Garda Síochána when the complaint has been rejected by GSOC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3257/18]

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...accept this legislation or the justification for it. The Government wants to punish them by denying them their increments up to 2021. It is disgusting. There is no other word for it. That word was misapplied to Garda Sergeant Maurice McCabe once upon a time in the Houses, but FEMPI is disgusting. For the Government to perpetuate this and punish people who stand up against it is...

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...no axe to grind with her personally, but the person who has most to lament in this sorry saga is Sergeant Maurice McCabe who first had the bravery to make a complaint in 2006 about malpractice in An Garda Síochána. It is now 2017 and we still have not got to the bottom of how the institutions that are supposed to uphold justice sought to suppress an effort by a member of the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The O'Sullivan report suggested there will be no accountability from those in top Garda management and no disciplinary action imposed on them. These are the people who were condemned in the report for the incredible level of malpractice within the force. The public does not accept a level of dysfunctionality that results in 2 million false breath tests and 15,000 wrongful convictions. We...