Results 61-80 of 251 for garda speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Investigations (9 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 6 July 2021, the reason An Garda Síochána were not contacted in relation to the missing file. [42981/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Government Communications (9 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 453. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the circumstances whereby his mobile phone was hacked; the information taken from the phone; the reports that were made to An Garda Síochána; the date on which they were made; the investigations that were conducted by An Garda Síochána or his Department in relation to the hacking; and the measures in place to minimise...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...managed to cut off all contact with him but it was a very clear abuse of power. She pursued all the avenues for justice that were open to her. She wrote letters to senior judges, she went to the Garda, and she went to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, but she got no justice. What is being done to ensure that these sorts of abuses of power cannot happen again?...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on comments by the Mental Health Commission on the rise in applications by An Garda Síochána to detain persons in psychiatric care against their will; if she will request a report from An Garda Síochána on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36752/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions that are being taken to ensure no cancellations occur of emergency calls to An Garda Síochána at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36751/21]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence: Statements (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: The situation of domestic abuse calls to the Garda being ignored is a major scandal. It is not a scandal that should be ended with an apology and a promise to do better. In just one shocking case a woman phoned 999 three times in one hour begging for help for her and her children. In her first call she reported she was being assaulted, in her second call she explained her partner was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Records (6 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...missing; the date the file was found; the location in which the file was found; the person who found the file; if the Taoiseach or others in Government were informed of the missing file; and if An Garda Síochána was notified in relation to the missing file. [36045/21]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (23 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...all spoken out about these extraordinary powers. They allow people to be locked up without the right to a trial by jury and without any actual evidence presented against them, just on the opinion of a garda. We have seen again and again major scandals, corruption and abuses of power in the Garda. Just remember how they lied about Maurice McCabe. As I mentioned, in the past, both...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has met with the family or representatives of a person (details supplied) who died in Garda custody in 2005; if she will examine the setting up of an independent or public inquiry into the circumstances of their death; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30234/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Terence Wheelock left his home to buy a paintbrush 16 years ago yesterday. He never came home. He was picked up and arrested by gardaí and brought to Store Street Garda station. Terence entered a coma as a result of injuries he received there and he died in hospital three months later. The gardaí state that he hanged himself, but his family do not believe that and there are very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...is open to the Government to initiate a public inquiry. It is a power which rests with it. Regarding the GSOC inquiry, does the Minister not think it was problematic that it was led by a former Garda who had previously worked, not at the time of the death, at Store Street Garda station? Turning to the legal proceedings, those were civil legal proceedings where, as I understand it, the...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...actually used against Debenhams workers, taxi drivers and Palestine protesters. What is more, we need to restore the right to safe, outdoor socially-distanced protest. It is time to lift the ban. The Garda has repeatedly refused to provide a breakdown of fines and arrests by ethnicity, despite repeated requests from the Policing Authority and despite promising to provide that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: It is reported that yesterday the Cabinet agreed to seek to extend the sweeping Garda emergency powers to November with a possible extension all the way to February 2022. Shamefully, while political parties have been exempted from the ban on gatherings, workers' pickets and socially distanced protests have been effectively banned for over a year. Recently, taxi drivers were threatened with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: 672. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the breakdown by Garda district of fines and arrests in relation to the Covid-19 legislation. [26330/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach's behaviour in relation to An Taisce is reminiscent of Donald Trump. The emergency powers handed to the Garda and the State last year are due to expire on 9 June but it is rumoured that the Government is thinking of extending them yet again. We have seen how the so called Covid powers have been used to harass Debenhams workers and to ban a car-based protest by taxi drivers....

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...also shone a light on many truths about our society. One of those truths is the nature of the State we have and in whose interests it operates. Nothing made that clearer than when members of the Garda went in heavy-handed and attacked former Debenhams workers on the picket line. The workers and their supporters were manhandled and dragged out, thrown around and onto the ground, in order...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 2 o’clock Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. That right is now being undermined by the actions of the Garda in this State. Last Thursday night, gardaí brutally broke up a peaceful picket of Debenhams workers at Henry Street, arresting a number of supporters and throwing workers, who were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Records (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...the unauthorised taking of the file from the Minister’s office between the dates of its first delivery on 1 September 2014 to the date of the replacement file of 29 September 2014 was reported to An Garda Síochána. [20312/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...says it was wrong and a gross breach of trust. I agree. The question is whether there will be any consequences. Does the Taoiseach agree his actions should be criminally investigated by the Garda? Does he agree there should be an independent audit involving representatives of the INMO and patients to see exactly what happened? Concretely, does he agree the CEO of the Beacon should...

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...head of the Beacon Hospital seems to be distributing vaccines to whomever he wants. The idea of it being left to the Beacon Hospital to hire someone to investigate what happened there is simply not good enough. The Garda should be involved to establish if a crime was committed and there should be a rapid public audit, involving the IMO and patient representatives, to see if there was...