Results 41-60 of 623 for garda speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and when she knew it regarding what was, let us remember, an absolutely scurrilous campaign to try to destroy Mr. Maurice McCabe, a brave man who was trying to blow the whistle on wrongdoing in the Garda. We have not got a clear commitment on whether the Tánaiste will answer questions on these most serious matters. We have to have that commitment. We cannot proceed with the Order...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Garda vetting for a person (details supplied) has taken over one year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39730/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the communication his Department or An Garda Síochána have had with the 1,500 persons wrongly convicted of motor offences; if he will provide copies of communications sent to those wrongly convicted; the purpose of those communications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36673/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... I welcome that he did so. This is all in the public domain. The evidence was aired. There was a flat contradiction between objective video evidence and statements made by three very senior gardaí. There were also other highly significant contradictions in evidence. When three senior gardaí make the same false statement, word for word, that is a crime if it turns out to be...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... Is the Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, not utterly ashamed of his Government? On the day it was revealed that we have reached a new low with 12 homeless families being told to go to Garda stations, some of whom ended up sleeping in parks, the Government claimed it was doing its very best to deal with this issue and simultaneously chose to vote against a Bill which would stem...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a report outlining the progress of the investigation and noting that the extent to which witnesses required the assistance of legal advisers was unusual and uncommon in the experience of the Garda. Therefore, the then Minister knew. Will the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, confirm that the then Minister knew and explain why alarm bells did not ring? We were told the DPP in December...

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement: Statements (25 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a blunder but a set-up that stinks to high heaven. There is a direct line between Seánie FitzPatrick's rotten, corrupt activities at Anglo Irish Bank and the families that are this week being sent to Garda stations or are sleeping in parks because no homes are available. The establishment in this country has contrived and conspired to ensure that he walks away free. It is an...

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not surprise me but it is completely scandalous that we have revelations from yet another Garda whistleblower alleging that innocent people's phones are being tapped. In one case, according to the allegation, a sitting Deputy had his or her phone tapped by An Garda Síochána, possibly as a result of pressure from a Minister. Certainly, the whistleblower believes it was a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (2 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in the Garda vetting process for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19589/17]

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...;notes that: — 937,000 breath tests that never occurred were falsely recorded on the Police Using Leading Systems Effectively (PULSE) system, and that the existence of a problem in this regard was communicated to the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O’Sullivan in 2014; — there were 146,865 District Court summonses for road traffic offences wrongly issued and that...

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., where the norm under Department of Justice and Equality is that if there is an investigation one is suspended? I ask because in the case of Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan, the head of the Garda, against whom some of the most serious allegations one could possibly levy against a Garda Commissioner are made, ones that if there was a scintilla of truth in them would make her...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not about Mr. Justice Charleton but about the Garda Commissioner.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Garda Commissioner is moving to subvert the commission of investigation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am amazed the last meeting took place on 7 March given everything that is happening. There is an unprecedented storm going on in terms of the behaviour of An Garda Síochána, the scandals around the breath tests, wrongful convictions and the questions over the Commissioner, yet the Cabinet committee did not meet since 7 March. It is absolutely extraordinary. Even more...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to start not with the detail that has been discussed but the bigger picture at stake in all of this. There was a report by Jim Power which received some publicity on Sunday. With all the news of Garda matters and the bus strike, it has been somewhat drowned out. This is very unfortunate because what the report suggests is pretty explosive and makes even the Apple scandal pale in...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste will not tell us whether it is in An Garda Síochána. Why was it done?

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Tánaiste think it is necessary for senior Garda management, particularly the Garda Commissioner, to enjoy the confidence of the public in order for that Commissioner and management to function effectively? It seems to me that has to be the case. If it is not the case that person is not suitable. Can the Tánaiste honestly tell us with a straight face that the public has...

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...programme in DIT. The programme enables students from disadvantaged backgrounds to attend third level education. As of this year, DIT is insisting that all students on the access programme have to be Garda vetted before entering the institution. This has never happened in any other college. The rest of the student body in DIT who enter through the normal CAO system are not Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (28 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the advice she would provide to a person (details supplied) who has made numerous complaints to An Garda Síochána between 2004 and 2013, which in the person's view were not investigated satisfactorily; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9656/17]

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...there has been some progress. The Bill introduces a standard regarding reasonable accommodation. The public sector quota for employing people with disabilities has now been extended to the Garda. The Bill gives the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission more responsibilities. All these things are good, but they are a long way short of what is needed to give full equality and rights...