Results 61-80 of 503 for garda speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Head of Government, needs to act on this matter. He might also set out for us the peculiar set of circumstances pertaining to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, acquiring a Garda driver. We got some sense of that before we rose for the summer. If that is the idea of a three-stranded Government working together in harmony, God help us when we see division.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...accepted an apology from the then Minister, Deputy Cowen, which we all, including myself, believe was absolutely genuine. The Taoiseach, however, also chose to stand by someone who was challenging a Garda record and account and who had sought to avoid a Garda checkpoint according to that account. He allowed him to give an incomplete statement to the Dáil and he failed to act for a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Cowen on it. Above all else, the Taoiseach stood behind, and today has continued to stand behind, an assertion by a former senior Minister and senior member of the Taoiseach's party which contradicts a Garda record. I am sure the Taoiseach will appreciate that is a very serious matter. I believe it is unprecedented for the Head of Government to side with a party colleague in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Growth (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...with the issues regarding the Minister, Deputy Cowen? Is that the mechanism the Taoiseach uses to brief his partners in Government on all of the serious issues arising, including the contested Garda PULSE records that suggest the Minister sought to evade a Garda checkpoint? The Taoiseach has said the co-ordination committee involves not only the leaders but the Secretary Generals of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Regeneration Projects (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...ambitions. To this end, the Governmetn has made available €6.5 million in funding for the initiative in 2020. Some highlights of what the board has delivered to date in 2020 include: increased Garda presence in the area, the Garda community support van supporting a focus on community policing, particularly throughout the Covid-19 pandemic; funding was provided to establish a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the Minister, Deputy Cowen, needs to come before the Dáil to make a statement and to take questions. A senior Cabinet Minister challenging the accuracy or truthfulness of the PULSE records of the Garda is a very serious matter. A senior Cabinet Minister attempting to evade a Garda checkpoint while behind the wheel of a car and having consumed alcohol is a very serious matter. These...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of these issues. However, for the purposes of today's discussion, I am more concerned with what the Taoiseach, as Head of Government, knew. He has confirmed that he did, in fact, know about the Garda PULSE record and that there was an allegation that the Minister had sought to evade a Garda checkpoint. He has confirmed that he knew that information as or before the Minister was making...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...facts on the record of the Dáil in relation to his drink-driving incident but, unfortunately, he has failed to do that. We now have an unprecedented situation where a Minister is disputing the Garda PULSE record of a drink-driving offence he was involved in and looking to have that record changed. Last week in his personal statement, the Minister stated he was "conscious that a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (7 Jul 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 646. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of the An Garda Síochána drug-related intimidation reporting programme; and the number of persons by county who have availed of the programme each year since it was launched. [14445/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (30 Jun 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: 325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reinstate Garda youth diversion project funding to a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13490/20]

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: I too wish to extend our heartfelt condolences to the family of Detective Garda Colm Horkan and extend sympathies to his colleagues in An Garda Síochána, to his wide and extensive group of friends and families in Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, and of course to the people of Charlestown and County Mayo. An honourable and a brave man has been lost. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (3 Dec 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the development of a domestic violence risk assessment matrix by An Garda Síochána will be completed and operational across all divisions. [49824/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday marked the beginning of the annual 16 Days campaign opposing violence against women and girls. I want to raise with the Taoiseach a significant delay in the delivery of two important Garda reforms in the area of domestic and gender-based violence. In November last year, the Minister for Justice and Equality told the Dáil that the roll-out of specialised units working with...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: The programme for Government commits to prioritising the prevention and reduction of crime by providing investment in An Garda Síochána. Last week, my colleague, Deputy Jonathan O'Brien, raised with the Taoiseach the crisis in Garda resources in Cork city and referred to reports showing that just two gardaí were available for patrol on one particular night. He asked the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Today we learned that specially trained gardaí cannot take up their positions in a long-promised sexual offences investigation unit in west Cork because of a lack of personnel. Does the Government agree that the people of Cork have a right to feel safe on the streets of the city and in their homes? Does the Government appreciate that there is a real crisis in Garda resources and, if...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: Will the Minister for Justice and Equality come to the House to make a statement on the lack of Garda resources in Cork?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...up a local newspaper in any part of the country to understand how crime impacts communities in every single county. These figures raise very serious questions in respect of the resourcing of An Garda Síochána and raise serious questions of the Minister for Justice and Equality and of the Taoiseach, as Head of Government. It is clear that the north inner city deserves much...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...crime and criminality but also zero tolerance for poverty, exclusion and the scourge of addiction. On that point we agree. It is beyond explanation that we are still waiting for Fitzgibbon Street Garda station to be reopened when it is located in the area with the highest crime rate in the State. Frankly, it is beyond belief that, in June, the Government closed the community policing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (6 Sep 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: 551. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda juvenile liaison officers assigned to the Dublin metropolitan region north and north central respectively. [34857/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...military sources in the press this morning spelt out precisely what will be those challenges. A source indicated that because of Ireland's massive sea area, having nine vessels is like having two Garda cars patrolling the island of Ireland, so with the vessels docked, it is like having one and a half such patrol cars. Another source said that this is like having a "neon sign for drug...