Results 141-152 of 152 for garda speaker:Gerard Craughwell

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...seeks to use, once again, coercive powers in this legislation for another three years to extend the additional working hours for teachers, lecturers in institutes of technologies and members of An Garda Síochána beyond the period set out in the Haddington Road agreement. Have the Minister and the Government considered the damage that is being to the education system and policing...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: The credibility of the Government is now at stake. Let us take, for example, An Garda Síochána. The Garda was promised a review under an appendix to the Lansdowne Road agreement which would cover structural, human resources-industrial relations issues together with remuneration.I am not sure what has happened in regard to the structural review but only one serious meeting has...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: Like everybody else here, I add my condolences to the people in Carrickmines, to Garda Golden's family and to the family of the homeless man who died in Dublin over the weekend. The people in Carrickmines live just down the road from me. It was a halting site that was well in off the road. They were people who minded their own business, who went about their daily lives. To see two...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...as students have to queue up for hours, and sometimes overnight, in order to get their visas renewed. This is wrong. I draw attention to the few miserable shillings saved by closing half the Garda stations in the country. In Stepaside, where I live, which is not exactly rural Ireland, we are inundated with burglaries. The loss of that Garda station has been of massive import. I am...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: With respect to what we saw on the "Prime Time" programme last night on procurement, will the Leader ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a role for the Garda? There are hundreds of people on trolleys in hospitals yet people are accepting holidays in Portugal and elsewhere. I am not saying anybody is guilty at this stage but if money is going astray, and we heard this...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I share some of Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh's concern about the level of control we are leaving in the Minister's hands under the provisions of the Bill. I understand the Garda Representative Association wrote to the justice committee stressing the need for independence for the Garda authority. I worry when I hear the Attorney General's advice was A, B, C or D. The Office of the...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...of State goes back to his office today, he needs to pick up the phone and ring the head of Revenue and the Minister of State in the Department of Justice and Equality and get them to ring An Garda Síochána. Let us bring them together in a room, sit down and see what we can do without the warnings I am looking for to limit the ripping-off of people. The sum of €27.3...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...as possible a debate on the current state of law and order. I live in the peaceful suburbs of south County Dublin. Recently, I attended a meeting called by Deputy Ross. A senior member of An Garda Síochána was also present. Deputy Ross invited members of the public to speak. A young lady stood up and asked the most dangerous and risky question I have ever heard, in that she...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...me about a case where a young single mother with a three-year old child was made homeless and lived on the street who goes to his premises at night seeking accommodation. That woman has to report to a Garda station each night in order to receive emergency accommodation. I compliment the Minister of State and the Minister, Deputy Kelly, on the marvellous job they have done with respect...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: .... She has been told - by the HSE I believe but I may be wrong and I do not want to say necessarily that it was the HSE - that tonight, in order to receive accommodation, she must report to a Garda station by 8 p.m. so they can call a social worker and for her and the child to be taken into care. This is urgent, so I ask the Leader to look into this straight away and see that this person...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Insurance Schemes: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

Gerard Craughwell: I welcome the witnesses. I have been thinking about average Joe Garda married to, or in some sort of relationship with, average Jo nurse who buy a house. At the mid-point on the scale their maximum borrowing capacity is €300,000, working on the basis of a 20% deposit requirement, which I support. It is a way of cooling the market. I am running a survey around the country of all...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

Gerard Craughwell: ...socialists taking people onto the streets and talking about the poverty in which they live, when they know sweet damn all about that poverty. I ask that not only do we condemn it but that the Garda Síochána should investigate what happened at the weekend to see if a crime was committed. I wish to address Senator Zappone's issue with the Central Bank. I, too, have concerns about...