Results 81-100 of 247 for garda speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: My point is similar to Deputy Kenny's. I thank the Minister for his engagement. According to figures that we have, we have 650 fewer gardaí than we had before the pandemic. There is a report in the Irish Independent that we have 42 stations around the country with no permanent staff. We are advocating in Dublin Bay North, my own constituency, for a new Garda station for the huge,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is Northern Cross. The site has been identified. The Office of Public Works, OPW, the Garda Síochána and Dublin City Council are engaging on it. I appreciate the Minister's gesture there.

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister for his presentation. The Labour Party is broadly supportive of the idea of body cams for gardaí. However, we want to make a few points on this Stage. I was not a member of the justice committee, although I am now, when this Bill underwent pre-legislative scrutiny. I understand there was no reference to facial recognition technology at that time. I will return...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (24 Jan 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...people die of fatal overdoses of alcohol every year. We must put our minds towards those who will be dealing with what happens on the street outside the various different venues, pubs and so on. An Garda Síochána has its point of view about how it will be policed. The health service has its point of view as to how it will be dealt with. Those are the main criticisms we as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Jan 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 1115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been any review of the Garda vetting system to avoid a situation where the same person is required to go through more than one vetting by different organisations within 12 months to fulfil the criteria for different roles, such as a person qualified and vetted to be a counsellor who has also been required to get...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (6 Dec 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has engaged with the Garda Commissioner in preparation for the introduction of the power to seize scramblers and quads under the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2022. [60509/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is an update on the progress of the opening of a Garda station at Northern Cross, Dublin 17. [60508/22]

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...; a significant increase in funding for Drug and Alcohol Task Forces and the conferring of an added educational remit, in liaison with schools and in community settings; and — the expansion of the work of the Criminal Assets Bureau to target and seize smaller assets in local communities with the full resources of An Garda Síochána targeted at organised crime gangs,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Child Abuse (24 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...it is the Government's intention to have an inquiry. I am happy that the Minister is committed to having a survivor-led inquiry. It is important that the Government takes advice on any ongoing Garda investigations. The Minister spoke about how things have changed since the period in which some of these abuses took place, yet it is clear that some of those who were overseeing these...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., heterosexual men. It was made for us. We have always run this place. We see ourselves everywhere. When I was growing up I saw people just like me in positions of power. The teacher, the garda and the person on television all spoke like me, all looked like me and all sounded like me. Such figures tended to be white, middle-class, able-bodied, settled, heterosexual males. If we walk...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...they have never felt from the State because in their lives, the State has at every juncture treated them with a lack of respect. That can come from the school system, the courts system, the Garda or social workers. We all may find this hard to accept but it can come from politicians. That is the day-to-day reality these people are working with. Let us dispense with this myth that we...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Site Acquisitions (20 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will obtain a status update from the Office of Public Works on the acquisition of a site for a proposed Garda station in an area (details supplied). [46049/22]

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage: Waste Management (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...is fundamentally a responsibility for the local authority but what I get from her answer is that the Department is aware of the issue, that it is engaging with the local authority, DCC, and with An Garda Síochána on the issue. It comes to the stage now where it requires a multi-agency approach. It will require intervention and proactive action by An Garda Síochána to...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage: Waste Management (15 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...I attended a safety forum in Darndale. Safety forums across the northside are meetings that take place to discuss issues of concern in the local area, attended by local city council officials and gardaí. They are an effective way for local communities to raise their concerns with local representatives, city council officials, the Garda etc. The issue of this illegal commercial...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Community Development Projects (14 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Within that new town we need to not repeat the errors of the past when we only built dwellings and did not build the community infrastructure. Obviously, other things are needed rather than just a Garda station. We have been to the forefront of advocating for new schools. We had a successful campaign to have a new second-level Educate Together school. However, more is needed for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Community Development Projects (14 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...power of a Minister can be quite strong. The Minister needs to be an advocate and a persuader for this. Her office and her Department needs to be fully engaged on the progress of this. While the Garda Commissioner has described it as exciting, the site has been identified and talks are ongoing between Dublin City Council and the OPW, the community is still waiting. There have been...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the research that has been conducted or the representations from her Department that have been made on finding a mechanism to streamline the Garda vetting process for artists working on projects with children in order to create a clear process which protects children but eliminates necessity for multiple Garda vetting applications...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...full of sick people. They should not be sitting in a courtroom looking at a judge. Those who have an addiction fundamentally do not belong in a courtroom interacting with the criminal justice system, gardaí and judges. That is not where they should be. The citizens' assembly, as indicated by Deputy Ó Murchú, is the right forum for us to analyse properly how other...

European Union Regulation: Motion (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...detained in prison for this reason because data are not collected in the absence of a dedicated immigration detention facility. Such a facility was to have been opened in 2020. It is inhumane to detain people in Garda stations and prisons. Another EU directive, the return directive to which Ireland is not a signatory, requires that immigration detention must take place in a specialised...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (15 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There has been an ongoing campaign for a new Garda station in the Dublin 13 and 17 areas on the north side of Dublin. This is a hugely expanding area, where the population is greatly increasing. Projections indicate that there will be approximately 50,000 new residents in the area over the next number of years and in that context, community infrastructure is always going to be important....