Results 41-60 of 251 for garda speaker:Paul Murphy

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ..., in particular the lack of clear human-rights based definitions and the insertion of problematic new clauses relating to hate speech that are wide open to abuse by individual District Court judges and gardaí. It is mainly the sections on hate speech in Part 2 that we find problematic. We agree with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties that hate speech should not have been bundled...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...research and from talking to Travellers that they do not experience a policing model that is focused on human rights. The report found that half of those surveyed had been present in a home that gardaí entered without permission. They found that 64% of Travellers in Garda custody in the past five years said they did not feel safe while in custody. When they were asked about the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Community (20 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: It seems that fundamental changes are necessary to challenge the systemic racism that many Travellers experience at the hands of the Garda. There are several recommendations in the report and I would like a response from the Minister on three of them. The first is as follows: The introduction of an ethnic identifier throughout the criminal process from the point of reporting to the point...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (7 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action that the Garda authorities are taking to tackle the ongoing issue of stolen dogs; if there has been any changes made to legislation in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36842/22]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...miscarriages of justice are never identified. It is the tip of the iceberg that we see. If we have circumstances where we have no jury, where people can be convicted based on the word of a senior Garda and on inferences and secret information contained in documents not disclosed to the public and where great power is given to the DPP to try people without a jury, then we are creating a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Passport Services (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...of Irish citizens for example, Chinese Irish citizens holding dual passports among others in relation to the decision to stop issuing re-entry visas (details supplied); if the immediate provision of Garda National Immigration Bureau cards will be ensured in order to facilitate the unhindered travel of those who chose to retain dual passports; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...media organisations are toying with trans people's lives for the sake of advertising revenue. The case of the former CEO of Transgender Equality Network Ireland, TENI, Eirenne Carroll, who was subjected to what the Garda told her was a credible death threat and subsequently left the country, shows just how serious this is for trans people. It is not some abstract, academic, interesting...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request that a passport application by a person (details supplied) is expedited given that the delay has been caused due to an error in the Garda station when singing as a witness and not due to the fault of the applicant or their guardians. [28495/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process for checks when a council tenant is being transferred to another property; and if they are Garda vetted. [18564/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: 624. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has been informed by the Garda Commissioner in accordance with section 41 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 regarding a letter sent to them by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18279/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to recent allegations from organisations representing sex workers of Garda intimidation and abusive behaviour against sex workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16253/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 780. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths by year in or following Garda custody or contact since the creation of GSOC including but not limited to shootings, pursuits, deaths in custody and deaths following any Garda interaction in tabular form. [14991/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: On 13 October last, members of the public and the press and witnesses for Mr. Kieran Hartley, who was the defendant, were excluded from a courtroom by gardaí. Mr. Hartley was making allegations of serious Garda misconduct in the case. When the exclusion of the public from the courtroom was questioned at the time, one garda said that the gardaí had been directed by the court not to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (19 Jan 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...for organising those events. Last summer, a group of young people socialising on South William Street were batoned simply for the crime of enjoying an outdoor summer. Instead of a visit by the Garda, the champagne party in the Department of Foreign Affairs in June 2020 got a visit from the Minister, Deputy Coveney. He admits to visiting the office at 11.10 p.m., after the champagne...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (23 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to improve the registration system at The Garda National Immigration Bureau, Burgh Quay Office given there have been reports that it is not possible to make an appointment currently. [57458/21]

Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: One of the women reported harassment to the gardaí. She was told that it was a case of boy meets girl and that there was nothing to investigate. We know that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, was of little use, and so far the Taoiseach has also been of no help. This pattern of State harassment and State violence against women, and minimising and ignoring it, is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence (14 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...refuge in Carlow, and in all those counties without one. I will set out a striking statistic. In the first nine months of this year, more than 500 incidents of domestic abuse were reported to the Garda in Carlow, but there is no local domestic violence refuge for those who need it. Instead, people are being sent to Kilkenny, Kildare and Dublin, causing unnecessary additional distress...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...that same judge again in a situation where he could potentially have been deciding whether she would keep her kids. I am not asking the Taoiseach or the Government to make themselves into the Garda, the Judiciary or whatever but the Government was contacted multiple times by this woman and then by me with regard to this case. Did the Government do anything about it? Did it spot that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...me that there are avenues for people to deal with the abuse[s] of power". What is precisely demonstrated by this case, however, is that those avenues did not work. The first woman went to the Garda and was told there was nothing to investigate and it was a normal situation of boy meets girl. It was anything but a normal situation. It was a judge in court who met a vulnerable woman...

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: .... It is not in the normal business of people deleting messages that they are finished with and so on that somehow they are gone; it would require a special effort to remove them from that. The Tánaiste is under Garda investigation for that. We will see what transpires. I have previously given my views on that, but it is quite significant. Then, we get to this issue of the other...