Results 121-140 of 503 for garda speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Accommodation (6 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 431. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of the €17 million capital budget allocated by his Department to the An Garda Síochána building programme for 2019 that has been directed to completing the necessary building works to accommodate the delivery of protective services units to all divisions by the end of 2019. [45560/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (6 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 427. 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. [45556/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (6 Nov 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of all Garda divisions, in tabular form. [45557/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and police offer." We owe Sergeant McCabe a huge debt of gratitude. He has done an enormous public service, as the Taoiseach has acknowledged. Mr. Justice Charleton has established that the then Garda Commissioner undertook a most disgraceful attack on Sergeant McCabe, aided and abetted by the then press officer Mr. David Taylor. As the Taoiseach knows, there is a lot of anger at the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (16 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the priority outcomes from the implementation progress review of phase 1 of the nationwide roll-out of An Garda Síochána divisional protective services units. [41894/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (16 Oct 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the locations of the phase 2 divisional protective services units rolled out in 2018; the remaining phases of the nationwide roll-out of such units in all Garda divisions; the location and number of personnel to be attached to each unit; and if the necessary accommodation is in place in each. [41895/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...commend the important strong emphasis on community policing and policing within the community. I commend the emphasis on human rights and tackling cybercrime and on providing quality training for gardaí, as well as an access programme. All of these are welcome but there are some areas on which we will need further clarification and that we need to pause to consider. We have...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...them single citizens and some of them families. Margaret Cash was at the Garden of Remembrance with her beautiful children. The Ceann Comhairle will recall that she is the mother who along with her children spent the night in Tallaght Garda station. This image, above all else, crystalised in the public mind just how deep this crisis is and how desperately low Government standards have...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Scandalously, the number of homeless children has increased again. There are now 3,867 children sleeping in emergency accommodation. Service providers have been reduced to referring families to Garda stations owing to the lack of emergency accommodation. In the course of the summer we witnessed the indignity of a family of seven sleeping in Tallaght Garda station. Rental costs have...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Urban Renewal Schemes (11 Jul 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to start with that issue. It was quite bizarre, and it was lucky happenstance that the person who came across the loaded Garda submachine gun was a responsible citizen who brought it to Store Street Garda station. Does the Taoiseach have any information that would be of some assistance on that, even an initial assessment? Mr. Michael Stone has done good work, and he should be...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The process undertaken by the Policing Authority is now complete and Mr. Drew Harris is to be appointed as the new Commissioner of An Garda Síochána. It is significant that somebody from the North, a serving PSNI officer and former RUC officer, has been appointed to this position. I met Mr. Harris and the Chief Constable of the PSNI, Mr. George Hamilton, in Belfast two weeks ago....

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...a stranglehold on legacy and has acted partially and with vested interest at all times". The issue of Mr. Harris's evidence at the Smithwick tribunal being described as "nonsense" by a former Garda Commissioner has also arisen. The question of any intelligence to which Mr. Harris had access in terms of British state collusion in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings has also arisen. ...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that in order to bring about that radical transformation of policing, the new Garda Commissioner must have public confidence and that is what I am asking the Taoiseach about. Yesterday I raised with him the case of Pat Finucane. Many times we have raised incidents, not least the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, where British state collusion was writ large....

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of Government. It would also be appropriate for Mr. Harris to make a statement addressing those issues of confidence - those real and deep-seated concerns because we all know that reform of An Garda Síochána-----

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Garda Commissioner.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, to Cabinet has just been published. As we know, the report was initiated on foot of Tusla's catastrophic mishandling of allegations made against Garda whistleblower, Maurice McCabe. I understand the report is damning and outlines dysfunction and deficiencies within Tusla in the areas of staffing, systems, reporting and governance. I...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...absence of a summation that clearly details each complaint, finding and rationale for GSOC's conclusions is inexplicable and disgraceful. Critically, GSOC has not addressed the failures of An Garda Síochána and the courts to act on the multiple breaches of bail documented in the report on foot of the family's complaints. Had the man who killed Shane been returned to court as...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...not in attendance for the briefing because I was in the Chamber, but it was very well attended. Those in attendance heard Jackie make one request. She asked that the law be updated to ensure the Garda would be able to prosecute those who cause harm or self-harm through online bullying. Specifically she called on Oireachtas Members to amend section 5 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sexual Offences Data (24 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: 280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline his views on a media report that An Garda Síochána overstated the number of sexual offences reported in each of the years 2003 to 2016. [17698/18]

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday the National Women's Council of Ireland raised very serious concerns in response to a report demonstrating that An Garda Síochána had been overstating the number of sexual offences reported by 26% in 2003 and by 6% overall for the 14 years up to 2016. The National Women's Council of Ireland described the system-wide shortfall of data collection and analysis by State...