Results 41-60 of 126 for garda speaker:Joan Collins

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: ...found themselves homeless. She linked in with Focus Ireland and had to self-accommodate daily. On two nights the woman was told the services had nothing for her family. She was told to go to the Garda station. Instead, she rang around friends to try to get accommodation quickly. She managed to get that from friends. She was depending on the charity of friends to get her children a...

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Joan Collins: ...have overdosed and ambulances having to be called. This is a pilot scheme. It is certainly worth introducing the legislation and setting up the facility to see how it operates. How will the Garda deal with the issue of carrying drugs to the centre? I expect it will need to establish some sort of policy with the Department of Health and the facility as to how to deal with that. Drug...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Joan Collins: ...farcical attitude that it has nothing to do with him. On the treatment of whistleblowers, I was among a small group of Deputies that first raised the issue of the abuse of penalty points within An Garda Síochána. I will defer to the ruling of the Committee on Procedures and Privileges on naming people, but at the time a journalist contacted me to fish for information on...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Lansdowne Road Agreement (24 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: ...Unions made it very clear that there are two points it wants to deal with. The first is the acceleration of negotiations on pay restoration. That comes on foot of the Labour Court award to the Garda. Nearly everybody now takes the view, although the Government is not saying it, that the Lansdowne Road agreement is unsustainable. It will simply not hold at a time when public sector...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (9 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Garda Síochána numbers in Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44339/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: ...xc1;lainn, which supported them and provided psychiatric services. Pieta House provided supports and linked people with local authorities to try to get them housed. The referrals are coming from the HSE, the Garda and emergency services. Unlike what the Minister has claimed, it is not a midway service. It is important. I am disappointed. I have tabled questions for Question Time...

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (26 Nov 2015)

Joan Collins: ...me and punch me, elbow me and kick me. He called me names and put me down. She says she stayed with him because she wanted the children to have a family. After a beating in February, she called the Garda Síochána and left with her children to stay first with her sister and then at a refuge in Meath. She then moved to a refuge in Dublin, but after two months her time there was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence Refuges (21 Oct 2015)

Joan Collins: ...and Equality later to talk about the need to properly resource domestic violence services. They say that at least €30 million needs to be put into services, and various agencies, including the Garda, need to provide resources to assist women and men in domestic violence situations. It is a serious issue, which has not been taken seriously to date, according to this organisation. ...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2015)

Joan Collins: ...in my own area in Parnell Road, Crumlin, when residents objected to water meters. We were arrested in an over-the-top response to our protests. Peaceful protests should be respected by Irish Water, the Garda and the State. Arresting people is not the proper way to respond because it causes friction in the community and risks undermining the good work that community gardaí have...

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

Joan Collins: Many rural areas do not have a Garda station.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Joan Collins: ...untrue. Deputy Wallace has referred to the issue and in Clanbrassil Close, a small estate of 24 houses off Clanbrassil Street, Irish Water and GMC Sierra arrived to fit water meters with 21 gardaí. How should that affect the people in that cul-de-sac? This was an act of provocation and after three days the inspector wrote to the Garda Commissioner requesting more gardaí and...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

Joan Collins: ...before the crash and which have only become embedded since then. As for the impact of these cuts, I met a group of people from the Canal Communities Partnership last week and these across-the-board cuts in the partnerships and the networks, in the HSE and in the Garda have had a really bad impact on certain parts of society whereby it now is extremely difficult or practically impossible...

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: One resident was taken to hospital yesterday with an ankle injury. Twenty-six gardaí were taken from stations across Dublin to get involved in what was happening in Clare Hall. The focus has switched today to St. Donagh's Road in Donaghmede, where over 100 residents have come out to protest. There is a large Garda presence and two arrests have been made. Is this not a strange use of...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: ...The point I want to make is an important one. The very distraught tenant, facing the prospect of his family being on the street, told Councillor Dunne that before he rang my office he had rung for gardaí not once but four times. The gardaí refused to intervene, stating it was a civil matter. This is not the first time this has happened in my area. About six months ago, I sent...

Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: Yes, we do not need meters to have good water. The question I am asking is very simple. The gardaí refused to act to stop an illegal eviction by a landlord on the basis it was a civil matter. Yet, while other people stand peacefully over a water shore, they are told it is an illegal protest, and section 12 of the Irish Water Act is quoted, which states that Irish Water and its...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Garda Investigations (9 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: ...Affairs if he will confirm that after the Health Information Quality Authority exposed foster care abuses into the Dublin north-west foster services in 2013, all the cases were forwarded to the Garda for investigation. [30321/14]

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: ...was facilitated by the Taoiseach, serious health and safety concerns were raised. It is alleged that there is zero maintenance of the fleet of bin trucks, which is a matter of concern for both the Garda, the Road Safety Authority and the Health and Safety Authority. There are serious health and safety concerns regarding the employment of casual staff without proper training on safety...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Joan Collins: This issue must be examined in a thorough and joined-up way. The EPA, RSA, HSA, Garda, local authorities and unions are all separate entities. Will the Minister give serious consideration to setting up a task force, perhaps comprising members of the environment committee and with an independent chair, to examine the whole industry? There are Sopranos-style operations going on here.

Cooke Report: Statements (19 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: ...as informed now as we were prior to the report's publication. When the issue arose in February, the reaction of the then Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, the Taoiseach, senior gardaí and their friends in the media was to ignore the possibility that an important agency of the State may have been put under covert surveillance. It was not even on the radar. In a...

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

Joan Collins: The promised inquiry into the issues regarding the Garda Síochána that have been raised over the last year will be the third such inquiry in ten years. Questions need to be asked about the Morris and Smithwick inquiries, which investigated very serious allegations and identified very serious problems. Did anything change following those inquiries? The Morris tribunal found...