Results 141-160 of 503 for garda speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in 2005, 2006 and 2007, as the line Minister, he, in a studious way, ignored the calls for an increase in the number of staff for the office. The Taoiseach now tells us that there are 36 staff and the Garda complement. Contrast that with 350 welfare inspectors. Of course, we need welfare inspectors. When one looks at those figures, it tells a tale of where the balance of consideration...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in heartbreaking detail in the past 24 hours. The scale of the abuse Joanne endured at the hands of the State was unprecedented and horribly and agonisingly public. I welcome yesterday's apology from the Garda Síochána and today's apology from the Taoiseach. Such statements are most welcome. The Taoiseach must now move to make good today's statement on compensation for Joanne...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We have now spent over a week discussing this email, the e-mail which outlined the very malicious strategy designed by former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan and her legal team to destroy the reputation and the life of Sergeant Maurice McCabe. It seems to me that there was a conspiracy to ruin this honourable man and that members of An Garda Síochána and the...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The email in question was sent to an official at the Department of Justice and Equality from somebody within An Garda Síochána. That email was then sent on to the Tánaiste. It strikes me as very strange that this email and the telephone conversation happened at all. It is very strange that the people concerned would be sharing information on a legal strategy and then sharing...

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...could not remember the email but I do not accept that because the political controversy surrounding Maurice McCabe had already led to the resignation of a Minister for Justice and Equality and a Garda Commissioner. It centred on allegations against Sergeant McCabe of which the Tánaiste was aware for a whole year, so not reading or remembering this email is, frankly, not believable....

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: In fact, it was worse than that because what the Tánaiste did do was continue to express unwavering confidence in the then Garda Commissioner O'Sullivan after the fact. She also continued to parrot this line that the whistleblower would enjoy protection from the Government. It was initially claimed by An Taoiseach, presumably after discussions with her, that the Tánaiste had no...

Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...precisely to protect her and her Government in this saga. The email, which the Tánaiste claims she forgets reading, plainly sets out a deliberate and cynical strategy on the part of the former Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, to undermine and attack the credibility of Maurice McCabe. It is also clear that the Tánaiste was made aware that the Garda legal team...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each Garda station in central Dublin in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [49358/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (21 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles assigned to each Garda station in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [49359/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (21 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Fitzgibbon Street Garda station will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49361/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the new Garda special crime task force has been established as recommended by the Mulvey report recommendations for the north-east inner city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49362/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (14 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the metrics by which An Garda Síochána collect sexual abuse and violence data both nationally and by county; and the method by which this information is distributed to the relevant Government Departments. [48001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff Training (7 Nov 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: 473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all front-line staff, including but not exclusive, to An Garda Síochána, prison staff, staff working within the Courts Services, receive suicide prevention training; if suicide prevention training is mandatory for front-line staff under the aegis of his Department; and if not, his plans to make such training...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of processes and procedures. By the way, I had asked about the criteria used in the closure of stations and their provenance. I do not think we have had a response to that, although the acting Garda Commissioner said he would get back to us on it. I am broadly in agreement with the caveat that Deputy Cullinane has entered.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The high level five criteria that Mr. Ó Cualáin described did not emanate from An Garda Síochána, they emanated from the Department. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...had oversight of that, which flies in the face of the fact that the current Minister, Deputy Flanagan, is very clear, and I think accurate, in asserting as recently as 20 September that the Garda Commissioner is primarily responsible for those decisions, such as reopening stations. Was the setting of those criteria therefore by the Department not a real intrusion on the authority of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am putting a much more straightforward proposition to the acting Commissioner. If there was a need to reopen Garda stations on a pilot basis or any other basis and if the concern was solely policing need, as the acting Commissioner has said, was it not then a gross intrusion for the Department to set criteria that ought to have been set by the Garda? Who set the criteria for closing the...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...know who set the criteria for closing the stations but we know that the criteria for opening them were set by the Department and the Minister, therefore by the political system rather than by any Garda need.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: He has taken the single and sole decision that Stepaside Garda station is to reopen on the basis of an interim report, work that he is at pains to tell us is not complete.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Office of the Garda Commissioner has taken that single and sole decision.