Results 61-80 of 295 for garda speaker:Regina Doherty

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jul 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...of months. When we see the increase in cases of domestic violence that have been reported not only to the wonderful organisations that support our women and men who are sufferers but also to the Garda Síochána, it is an issue that needs and deserves more highlighting than it has ever got. I do not say this disrespectfully, but it is something that falls to the women of this...

Seanad: Minute's Silence for Detective Garda Colm Horkan and former Senator Terry Brennan (29 Jun 2020)

Regina Doherty: Before I propose the Order of Business I suggest we have a minute's silence to honour the memories of Detective Garda Colm Horkan and our very much loved former colleague, Senator Terry Brennan.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (16 Jun 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...funded by the agency to make referrals to my Department for access to rent supplement for victims of domestic violence through a dedicated channel.  My Department will also accept direct referrals through nominated contact points in An Garda Siochána, Tusla and the HSE. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.  

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (3 Jun 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...to investigate and report on claims for benefit/assistance and to carry out employer inspections.  In addition, there are 112 trained investigators in the Department's Special Investigations Unit (SIU), which includes 21 members of An Garda Siochána who are seconded to the Unit.  The exclusive function of the SIU is to investigate and report on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (3 Jun 2020)

Regina Doherty: Data Protection legislation (section 41(b) of the Data Protection Act 2018) permits the disclosure of information to members of An Garda Síochána when they are preventing, detecting or investigating offences or prosecuting criminal offences.  In addition, Section 8 of the Immigration Act 2003 permits the exchange of information with An Garda Síochána in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (3 Jun 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...department's website, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has no plans to share any data received as part of an immigrant’s application for a COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment with the Garda National Immigration Bureau or the Department of Justice and Equality.   I trust that this clarifies the position for the Deputy.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: ..., I said this already, I do not believe anybody is gaming the system. I accept there is fraud in the system for which we have our control measures and we work on that week-in, week-out with the Garda. However, these are workers. These are all people who on 13 March had a good job as far as they were concerned, but maybe could have been paid better. They were going to work and would be...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...Women's Council approached us in recent weeks to say that the supplement had not been working exactly how they had envisaged. They asked whether we could be the direct referral body and the Garda Síochána could be an authorised referrer. We have considered the matter for the past couple of days and looked at how we were dealing with people. People are entitled to make...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: .... There is and will be no delay in accessing these supports. There are now a number of parties who can make referrals, not least of which is the individual himself or herself, as well as the Garda and Tusla. We are trying to cover all bases. There might be some difficulty in that certain parties would like another party to be the responsible person for referring. From our...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: ...person concerned purporting to be an Angolan national, of a certain name and date of birth, entered the State in or around 2006. He was allocated a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) and held a Garda National Immigration Bureau Card Stamp 4. The person concerned was in receipt of a Jobseeker’s Allowance payment from January 2014 to January 2019. In September 2018, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...think. Today, a person can go online and get a passport sent to her house through the post box within two or three days. The comparison with traipsing to the post office to get the form, then to the Garda station and then to Mount Street or sending it in the post and having to wait for weeks for it to come back is striking. If the Deputy does not believe that investing in access to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services Provision (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...need for customers to travel to and Intreo Centre or Health Centre and queue for service. Emergencies are prioritised and dealt with in a timely manner. The North Kildare Community Welfare Services provide 2 mobile telephone numbers to the local Garda Stations in the event of out of hour’s emergencies. Clinic Location/Areas Covered Phone Email ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...than having a PSC because one can, but it is by means of the old, inefficient way. People can choose with their feet to decide if they wish to go to the post office, bring the photographs to the Garda station, get them signed, go in and sit in Mount Street for four hours or to just do it online. That is their choice. It is incumbent on any Government to provide services in the most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...ongoing. The witness in question is no longer a member of staff, arising from actions that were taken by said employee. For the record, in practically every county we have seconded members of An Garda Síochána as part of our fraud division. We share data with the Garda when criminal investigations are being carried out. We spoke a number of weeks ago about amendments that I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...she would absolutely need to have a PSC. How else would he or she identify himself or herself during the online process? During those periods, a person always had the ability to go to the local Garda station with his or her passport application, get it signed, get the photograph signed and arrive up to the office in Mount Street. I would respectfully ask the Deputy to withdraw the slur...

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...have described the PSC as a national identity card, it is not, given that nobody is required to carry it at all times, nor to produce the card at the request of any civil authority such as An Garda Síochána. In fact, such a request would be illegal. On 27 October 2017, the Data Protection Commission, DPC, initiated an investigation into the Department's compliance with its...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...Deputy referred. I checked in the Department and I know it has a hugely valuable reputation. It has had enormous interaction and I suggest that it needs to have more. If it is doing work with An Garda Síochána, there is nothing that we cannot learn in regard to best practice from an international perspective. We all want the same thing, which is for our children to enjoy the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...the supports and the service that they required to have a better quality of life. Ms O'Toole's other recommendation was that it should not be led by the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána. When we launch the new national action plan for social inclusion in May to which all committee members will be invited, I would like for us - mine is only one...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (6 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: .... There are a number of avenues open to landlords in such cases, including the mediation service for landlords and tenants operated by the Private Residential Tenancies Board and/or recourse to the Garda Síochána and/or the Courts in relation to the enforcement of the law in dealing with anti-social or criminal behaviour. Under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 tenants...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...centres and wait in lengthy queues. Emergencies are prioritised and dealt with in a timely manner. In reference to out of hours and emergency needs, the North Kildare Community Welfare Services provide 2 mobile telephone numbers to the local Garda Stations in the event of out of hour’s emergencies. Clinic Location/Areas Covered Phone Email Celbridge Health Centre: Celbridge,...