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Restorative Justice (Reparation of Victims) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the truth and one cannot be caught out for telling the truth. If other people told the truth, it might be a different country. I am saying that these people worked in collusion to close our Garda stations. I have no denying where I came out of, a place called the Bog Road in Kilgarvan. Up that road, we had a Garda station. It was closed and, over the past month, three houses have been...

Restorative Justice (Reparation of Victims) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...why crime is on the increase. This Minister for Justice and Equality and the Government have misled the people in the fight against crime. The Minister came into the House and said he was closing Garda stations to save money. When I proved on the record that it costs more to keep a Garda station closed than to keep it open, he changed his tune. Then, he said he was closing the Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (25 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 795. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person has a case taken against them by the Director of Public Prosecutions at the request of a member of An Garda Síochána and if following that case the charge against the person was completely dismissed in its entirety and was struck out with no order and the Prohibition of Offenders Act was not involved, in subsequent years...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...one believes they are good and fulfilling an important role or one does not. I have also endured Government backbenchers attending constituency meetings and agreeing that, for example, the closure of Garda stations is awful and should not happen despite voting in the Dáil for their closure before returning to Kerry alongside Ministers to try to make out to their communities that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (6 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Garda Stations that are to be sold in the first six months of 2014; the number that are to be sold in the second half of 2014; the number to be sold in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11419/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Offices (6 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...work will then be carried out; the effect it will have on farmers in County Kerry who have been dealing with this office for many years; are there proposed cost savings or, like the closure of the Garda stations, will it cost more to close and relocate this office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11482/14]

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...there is an interconnection between speaking to the Bill and the earlier debate. I know the Minister will respect me for this. I do not want anybody playing political football with members of An Garda Síochána. I do not have to look too far from where I am standing to see members of An Garda Síochána, for whom I, my colleagues and everybody should have nothing but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: Irish Postmasters Union (26 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...are going to close? That is one question. With regard to an item touched on by other Deputies and Senators, the issue of the post office working in an ad hocway in conjunction with members of the Garda Síochána, does the IPU agree that, as has been proven, gardaí and those who want to carry out checks on who is who and what is what have always found the knowledge in local...

Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is happening and the Government closed down Garda stations before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...has about the statements that were made by GSOC where an impression was given that the security sweep was ordered because of comments made by a third party and that the third party is in fact the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Martin Callinan? For clarification purposes, will the Minister confirm if there was any type of authorised surveillance, of any type, on the offices of GSOC at any time in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (19 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 164. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to the current Garda recruitment the number that will go through stage one and stage two of the Garda recruitment process and the number that will finally go for interview and the number that will go for interview; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8554/14]

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I ask the Taoiseach the status of the Garda Síochána compensation Bill. We do not want a repeat of the events that occurred in the past few weeks whereby members of the force were left out to dry by the Minister for Justice and Equality and had to face the courts at their own expense. They were let down by their Minister. What does the Taoiseach have to say about that matter?

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: What about the way the members of An Garda Síochána were treated by the Minister for Justice and Equality in the past few weeks? The Taoiseach knows about it.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Garda compensation Bill.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Equipment (15 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 567. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in view of the decision to arm some members of An Garda Síochána with pistols, he is considering reissuing detectives and other gardaí with Uzi submachine guns, which they had in the past and which were taken away from them during this Government's term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1103/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Disciplinary Proceedings (15 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 596. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the State has refused to pay the legal cost of two members of An Garda Síochána who were accused of assaulting a violent teenager (details supplied); the reason no defence was entered on behalf of An Garda Síochána by the State who employ them in the first place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (19 Dec 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 275. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the strength of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55115/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Career Breaks (3 Dec 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 313. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on incentivised career breaks in An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51899/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...already. It relates to the significant amount of resources used in investigations by the ombudsman commission. A total of 45,000 man-hours are being used at a time when the Commissioner and his gardaí throughout the country are facing cutbacks. Recently, I saw the figures relating to the dramatic downturn in the amount of overtime being paid to gardaí. This shows that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Special Report and Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Garda Commissioner (20 Nov 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will say at the end what I should have said at the beginning: I welcome the Garda Commissioner and his senior colleagues and I thank them for coming before the committee.