Results 21-40 of 261 for garda speaker:Colm Burke

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (6 Jul 2023)

Colm Burke: 199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, following an audit of all unoccupied properties previously used either to provide accommodation to members of An Garda Síochána or former Garda stations no longer in use, he will set out the number of these unoccupied properties which have been sold to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Colm Burke: ...there be a central person appointed to oversee this. Now we have got some work done on this, is the Department going to do further work in the form of having far more co-ordination between the Garda, the coroners, the hospitals etc.? Is that likely to be considered by the Department?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Missing Persons (24 May 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. My understanding is that the Coroners Society of Ireland, the Office of the State Pathologist, the Dublin District Coroner, the missing persons bureau of An Garda Síochána and Forensic Science Ireland support the proposal I am making. I presented it to the Department and the Minister of the day five years ago, but it is only in the past three weeks that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: ...in a hospital premises, is that the person responsible was never prosecuted. We are talking about more than 5,000 cases being reported in a very short time period. Of those, how many did the Garda prosecute? How many were brought forward for Garda prosecutions or were put on the record with the Garda authorities? Do we have any figures in respect of the numbers that were reported and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: What if an assault takes place in a hospital and someone is actually hurt? In this case, I am referring to a situation where a nurse was held in a headlock and there was no Garda prosecution. Surely, there is something wrong with the system. In fairness to that person, if she files a statement with the health authority or HSE, is the HSE as the employer not obliged to make sure there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Okay, then let us move it on another bit. Every two or three months, we have a joint policing committee meeting between the local authority, the Garda and local public representatives. Is it not now time for the unions together with the HSE and Garda to have joint meetings in a similar way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: It could be taken to a national level. The unions together with the HSE and the Garda authorities need to sit around the table and see what processes can be put in place. Given that we have the same structure with local authorities, which was only set up in the last ten years, why can we not do the same to protect front-line workers in the HSE? Is it not about time we did something like that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: Has the INMO made a request to the Department, the HSE or the Garda to consider putting in place a mechanism?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: ...but at least once every two or three months. The representatives of the workers, whether they are doctors, care assistants, porters or nursing staff, would sit down with the HSE management with Garda representatives also being present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Colm Burke: ...and Safety Authority to join those meetings as well in order that we cover all the angles. It is something for which we should all be looking. As a committee, perhaps we should also write to the Garda authorities on that issue as part of the outcome of this. The second issue I wish to touch on-----

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

Colm Burke: 23. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the new powers that gardaí will have following the implementation of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill; the way the Bill will help An Garda Síochána engage with State agencies to ensure community safety in local communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60497/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for dealing with all of the queries that have been put to them this morning. I want to go back over the demarcation issue. An Garda Síochána has a concern about it. Coming from a legal background, I also have a concern about it from the point of view of clearly defining where the line is if there are prosecutions. For example, if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Has An Garda Síochána thought out a solution to it? I am looking at it from a defence solicitor's point of view. An argument could be made as to whether a person was 90 m or 100 m from the entrance. How can that be defined clearly? Who measures that? In the case the 50 km/h speed limit, it is clearly marked where the zone starts and finishes. I am wondering whether An Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: ...very easy to design a sign that clearly indicates an area is within the precincts of the hospital and therefore people are not entitled to protest beyond that point? I can see huge problems for An Garda Síochána in prosecuting on this aspect unless a clear demarcation is put in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Have there been any discussions between the Department and An Garda Síochána on this issue? An Garda Síochána obviously has concerns about it. The last thing we need, in situations where An Garda Síochána feels there has been a clear breach of the regulations, is a long drawn out process to determine whether that is the case. Then we are in the whole area of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: .... I accept her point that everyone realises there is a clear rule in place. Over the past two or three general elections or local elections, I did not hear of a huge number of incidents where An Garda Síochána had to take action. I am not sure what the view of the witnesses is on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: Moving on to the issue of private property, with particular reference to the dwelling of a medical practitioner, does An Garda Síochána have any concerns about safe protests outside a dwelling house in that respect? For example, a group may decide that because it cannot protest outside a hospital, it will protest outside the property of a medical practitioner working in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Colm Burke: No. I am raising this matter because it is difficult for the Garda to intervene if it is uncomfortable about whether there is adequate legislation to deal with an issue. Would the Garda feel safer if there was appropriate legislation in place that gave the Garda a clear understanding of where the boundaries were when dealing with particular issues?