Results 21-40 of 82 for garda speaker:Gerald Nash

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Jun 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed at Laytown Garda station in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31550/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Jun 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a review of the Garda divisional boundaries pertaining to south County Louth and east County Meath will be completed. [31551/21]

Banking Sector: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...wrongdoers. Should this be the next step for the Central Bank? As far as the Minister is aware, is any material related to potential fraud, deception or loss being caused being forwarded by the Central Bank to An Garda Síochána? To the best of the Minister's knowledge, is the Central Bank engaged in any similar investigations in other stockbroking or wealth management firms...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)

Gerald Nash: As long ago as last April, I wrote to the Government and the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, requesting that regulations be drawn up to allow the Garda to enforce travel restrictions against non-residents of the Republic who were transiting through or visiting the State- people were transiting through with absolute impunity - and those who had no business being here. Ten months...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...before the courts and bring them to justice. As the Minister is well aware, two gangs at war over the drugs trade in my home town have wreaked havoc over the past two or more years. The Garda, the Criminal Assets Bureau and other agencies have done really important work and have achieved some considerable success in recent months in tackling this gangland feud in my area. This is as...

Death of Garda Colm Horkan: Expressions of Sympathy (24 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: On behalf of the Labour Party, I want to express my sincerest condolences to Detective Garda Horkan's father, all his family and his very wide circle of friends. His loss to his grieving family is simply incalculable. We send our deepest sympathies on the tragic loss of one of their own to the people of Charlestown in Mayo and Detective Garda Horkan's friends in the GAA. We especially...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (5 Mar 2020)

Gerald Nash: 331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda Commissioner has plans to provide additional Garda personnel to Laytown, County Meath (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2816/20]

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Gerald Nash: It is timely that we have a debate in the Chamber on the health impacts of drug use and misuse in this country. We have had many debates in recent weeks on the Garda and criminal justice response to drugs in our communities. Any time I have had the opportunity to participate in those debates, I always refer to the need to address these issues from a health and not a criminal justice...

Seanad: Illegal Drugs: Motion (13 Nov 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...drug use. As the Minister of State knows only too well, my area has been blighted over the past 18 months by an ongoing feud over control of the local drugs trade. It has claimed two lives. The Garda was very slow to respond with additional resources to deal with criminality. I am referring to the operation of the drugs trade at a high level in my area, comprising Drogheda, south Louth...

Seanad: Crime Policy: Motion (2 Oct 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...in the last year, precipitated by a shooting in the town last summer. The Minister knows this. He has visited Drogheda on many occasions. Up to 100 gang-related incidents have been recorded by An Garda Síochana locally in the past year or so. This includes shootings, alleged kidnappings, pipe bomb attacks, and drug debt intimidation. August saw our first fatality. Drug debt...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...in Drogheda where shots were fired at a house in the Rathmullan estate in Drogheda. There is an ongoing local feud. I have repeatedly raised that we have a very limited number of members of An Garda Síochána in our town where most towns of an equivalent size have ten to 12 gardaí per unit per shift. We have five to seven gardaí in the area, trying to police an...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Garda Deployment (28 Feb 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...a few months. However, it has the level of policing cover one would expect in a provincial backwater, not in a town or city of the scale and significance of Drogheda. We simply do not have enough gardaí on the streets to fulfil normal policing duties, let alone investigate the ongoing violent criminal feud. There are six or seven gardaí per unit or shift, as opposed to 12 or...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Garda Deployment (28 Feb 2019)

Gerald Nash: In the 20 years I have been in public life I have never been more frustrated as I have been this week. With others, I am trying to support the work of An Garda Síochána to protect the people of my home town, about which I care deeply. I have never witnessed such angst and frustration in the area. My phone has been hopping since Monday. I know of people who witnessed the event in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...state of fear. As Members of the House will know, an attempt was made on a man’s life yesterday in a horrific gun attack outside a toy store in a retail park on the north side of Drogheda. The Garda is very clear that it was connected to an ongoing violent criminal feud in the town. Drogheda simply does not have enough members of An Garda Síochána policing the streets...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2019)

Gerald Nash: The gardaí who are in Drogheda at the moment require the kind of support that I think every member of An Garda Síochána in this country is entitled to expect. If I can, a Chathaoirligh, I will conclude on this point. This is an urgent matter. I understand that the Taoiseach is scheduled to visit Drogheda on Friday. My message to him is that he should not come to Drogheda if...

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): Garda Deployment (20 Nov 2018)

Gerald Nash: Numbers-wise, the Drogheda area is being policed as if it were a small provincial town and not the sixth largest urban area in the country. At present, approximately 107 gardaí are situated in Drogheda Garda station with only one or two vehicles available at any given time. Units that should have 11 to 12 gardaí are down to five or six gardaí. This makes it very difficult to...

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): Garda Deployment (20 Nov 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...if I could get the view of the Minister on whether special powers need to be in improved or implemented in a different way. However, I thank the Minister of State for the response. Many more gardaí need to be deployed to the Drogheda area to make sure that people feel safe. This is a time members of the public should support the work of the Garda. In this context, I was surprised...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2018)

Gerald Nash: Members will be aware that the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI, is having its annual conference. Serious concerns have been expressed by that body about the Government's foot dragging over responding to a landmark Council of Europe decision a couple of years ago relating to trade union rights for the AGSI, a right that should and could be very easily applied not just to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)

Gerald Nash: ...and others engaged on behalf of the MSO, he would encounter information from organisations like the Naval Service, the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, the Revenue Commissioners, An Garda Síochána and others that would be relevant to the operation of the scheme. From the get-go, the MSO resisted membership of the implementation group. It essentially refused to sign...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Gerald Nash: ...was raised during the lifetime of the previous Government and pushed to a certain point. A review group has been set up to consider access rights to the WRC and the Labour Court for members of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces. I ask the Leader to update the House on when members of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces will receive the right to access the...