Results 81-100 of 623 for garda speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...have eyes that could see around corners, or were they, in fact, shivering in the cold near the back gate of the Dáil asking us how many people there were, looking at our estimates, looking at the Garda's estimates and deciding it was somewhere in between? According to those who were stewarding the demonstration, and calls we were getting, they were all the way down to College Green,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reports (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...drawn to a report that was produced by one of her senior officials in February 2008 about a former employee (details supplied) in Dublin 6, which stated that she had been the subject of a written Garda complaint, when the gardaí have no record of this complaint; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that the gardaí have no record of this complaint; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received any report on any recent Garda investigations into the case of a person (details supplied) and the Dalkey baby case; and if not, if there is any timeline on these investigations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26750/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...will consider the request of a person (details supplied) and their legal representative to have their case included in any statutory commission of investigation that the Government establishes into Garda mishandling and malpractice arising out of the recent inquiries in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26749/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the Government - in terms of its compliance with international law - given what has happened in retrospect? In regard to my second question, the witnesses spoke about political interference, the Garda, harassment of protesters and failure to take complaints seriously. As events move on, things that might be said in one context gain much greater force in a new context. The new context...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...policy or whatever else it might be. We have international obligations, as we have signed up to treaties, and to international definitions of neutrality and we are flouting them. Similarly, An Garda Síochána for reasons that are not fully explained, does not seem to be responding to complaints about very serious issues in the way it should respond to any complaint that is made...

Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The revelations and scandals surrounding allegations of Garda malpractice, corruption, cover-ups and wrongdoing are of the most serious nature. We have had in very quick succession quite shocking revelations about the extent of these practices within An Garda Síochána and allegations regarding the apparent complicity of the Department of Justice and Equality and Governments and...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...move this forward. However, I do not understand why the Minister refuses to meet them. Having spoken to Ms Cynthia Owen's solicitor this morning, they wish to know what is the timescale for the Garda to report back to the Minister about its investigations bearing in mind that the only gardaí investigating this are gardaí serving in the Dún Laoghaire area where the crime...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to receive the report from the Garda authorities on the death of a child (details supplied); and if he does not have such a date, if he will request it as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19293/14]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for door-stepping Commissioner Callinan over the issue of penalty points that he may have had quashed last year, by the editor-in-chief of Independent Newspapers who was a former editor of the Garda Review. It is alleged in newspaper reports that he had his penalty points quashed. This is the sort of State we live in. I would gain some return of confidence in the Minister for Justice...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...General briefed the Taoiseach about the seriousness of the bugging, the Minister was briefed on Monday and then the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality went to see the Garda Commissioner. Did the Minister know the Secretary General of his Department was going and what he was going to say to the Garda Commissioner or what he did say? Could the Minister give us a...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What matters was he told to discuss with the Garda Commissioner?

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On matters that are of the most serious importance about allegations of widespread malpractice and possible criminal activity in the Garda on a range of fronts, the Minister's arrogance is breathtaking. His contempt for the public's intelligence is disgraceful. His line is that he did nothing wrong and it is everybody else's fault but his.

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in them. He tried to take pot shots at the Opposition rather than deal with the substance. He rubbished the whistleblowers who had the courage to speak out about widespread malpractice in the Garda. The Minister sacrificed the confidential recipient because he raised the most alarming suggestions about the Minister's demeanour when it came to the whistleblowers. He rubbished the...

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach referred to the security of the State. I put it to him that what is at stake with the resignation of the Garda Commissioner is not the security of the State but democracy and the accountability of the State to its citizens.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...making of statements in the House. The statements that will be taken later this week pertain solely to the penalty points issue. We need a statement from the Taoiseach on the resignation of the Garda Commissioner-----

Topical Issue Debate: Corporation Tax Regime (20 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue for debate. I also appreciate that the Minister has come into the Chamber to participate. Between the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and the Garda whistleblowers, this week may well go down in history as one in which attempts to cover up scandals were exposed. I certainly believe that what has been going on...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...weeks would hardly give people confidence. I read the transcript of the conversation between Oliver Connolly and Maurice McCabe yesterday, and it is extraordinary. This is about a member of the Garda who took his life in his hands and spoke out about what he believes to be widespread, endemic corruption in the Garda, not just about penalty points but about murders not being investigated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...definitive evidence", but what that hid was that there were substantial concerns on the part of the Ombudsman that they were under surveillance and that surveillance may have been conducted by the Garda. That prompted it to undertake an investigation and to bring in experts and when they came they found more threats, further adding to possible concerns that it was under surveillance....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The only person recently who has suggested that the Minister is too close to the Garda Commissioner is Mr. Oliver Connolly in the transcript of his conversation with Maurice McCabe. I am not suggesting that; he suggested it in the transcript. Setting that issue aside, does the Minister not think the fact that a security firm that is expert in this area that investigated possible bugging of...