Results 121-130 of 130 for garda speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (18 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will receive their Garda vetting as a matter of urgency to ensure they are able to take up the job they have been offered and so that he can stop claiming social welfare. [39220/12]

Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...with the social services - it is long overdue for a way of protecting children from such horrors and abuses to be put in place. This Bill, which compels people to report arrestable offences to the Garda Síochána, is to be welcomed in that context. Essentially, it will criminalise the withholding of information on offences that have been committed against children or vulnerable people....

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (13 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...appear it is being used more to gather information on organisations and groups with which the State has a problem. When this extends to anti-war activists it begins to be of serious concern. The Garda recently raided the home of the PRO of the Galway Alliance against War. His house was raided at 8 a.m. with his wife and daughters in bed. Vile language was used against members of the...

Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (20 Jul 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and to articulate their demands on what they need in respect of redress. While the church authorities have, rightly, been criticised, the Minister also must consider the issue of the failure of the Garda to report complaints of abuse to the health boards, as well as the fact that in some cases, gardaí were assessing whether priests about whom complaints had been made were an ongoing risk...

Global Intelligence Forum (18 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just stating that for the record, given the earlier unjustified comment. What is the reason senior figures both in the Garda and from the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Defence are attending this conference with former directors of the CIA, former directors of military intelligence in the United States army and former senior figures from the FBI? Bizarrely, the...

Garda Operations (18 May 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the security and associated costs for the visits of the Queen and President Obama. Should we take it from the Minister's response that the Government has essentially given a blank cheque to the Garda and any other organs of the State involved in facilitating this visit suggesting they can have as much as they want and we will count the cost afterwards? At the same time vulnerable and...

State Visits (20 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not really an answer. Reports have been circulating in the media about the Garda and a bill for €25 million for security for the visits. Nobody knows the figure - certainly I do not - but perhaps the Taoiseach knows whether that figure is part of such a cost or is the total considerably greater? Who will pay for it? Is it to come from the Taoiseach's Department? The public are...

Garda Operations (7 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is something very wrong with how the gardaí are behaving in the Rossport area and with how they are allowing private security companies that are working for Shell Oil to treat protestors. When I submitted this question it was on the basis of reports that IRMS, a private security company working for Shell, was putting up checkpoints on main roads and vetting traffic that was going past...

Garda Operations (7 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given that the issues about the behaviour of the Garda are disputed and there are many complaints against the behaviour of the Garda, specifically in this area, is it not reasonable that some independent body would come in or that independent, international observers come in and make an objective judgment on this? Is that not a reasonable request given that the matter is now disputed and the...

Order of Business (5 Apr 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Order of Business not refer to the shocking revelations in today's edition of The Irish Times concerning gardaí abusing and threatening with rape individuals they had detained at protests in County Mayo?