Results 121-140 of 251 for garda speaker:Paul Murphy

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2017)

Paul Murphy: .... He participated in the Shell to Sea protests in the Taoiseach's constituency. He organised meetings here in the run-up to the protest in Gleneagles at the G8 in 2005. He was arrested by the Garda in Dublin on 3 May 2004. Sarah Hampton, a US citizen, met Mark Kennedy in Ireland in 2005. On Monday, in a statement read out in Dublin she said:Finding out that Mark was an undercover...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: NAMA Operations (10 Nov 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...now knows about these matters, does he not view them as a problem? Given the fact that NAMA knows, since the issue is in the public domain, does it not have a legal responsibility to go to the Garda about it?

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...meter protests. Four people were jailed for three weeks for going within 20 metres of water meter installation. A spying operation against anti-water charges activists was run, called Operation Mizen, led by the Garda Commissioner's husband. However, right now, there is the most serious attack on the right to protest yet - a vindictive prosecution of a 17 year old young man over the...

Criminal Justice Act 1994: Motion (6 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...be addressed. Giving increased powers to the State will not provide employment and will not provide education or opportunities for young people and deprived communities. Increasing the powers of gardaí and Revenue will not resolve the problems that users of drugs have nor will it assist those who wish to end their use of drugs. This is part of a wider debate but is in response...

Other Questions: Irish Water (29 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...water charges and for privatisation. Therefore, water meters will not be accepted. Surely the Minister can see that the project has to be halted. Is he going to continue to have huge numbers of Garda resources imposed on communities to get the water meters installed in the remaining areas, which are the ones where there is the strongest opposition to water meters? Are more people going...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (22 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: 25. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received reports or updates from the Garda Commissioner, on investigations within An Garda Síochána, concerning the leaking of information on ongoing Garda investigations to the media; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17132/16]

Parole Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Jun 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...'Callaghan why this is the case and that these other ideas be given consideration on Committee and subsequent Stages. For example, we think it is important that risk assessments carried out by the Garda as part of the process not be carried out by gardaí who had been directly involved in the case, as clearly there is a danger, or at the very least a perceived danger, of bias. There...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Paul Murphy: ...again for things of which they are not guilty and, subsequently, effectively bankrupted. The entire case will cost the State and the taxpayers millions of euro. That is the result of decisions of An Garda Síochána and the Director of Public Prosecutions to pursue this vindictive prosecution in the first place and then to prosecute it in the Circuit Court where the costs are...

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...morning on Chancery Lane in Dublin 8, and which appeared on the www.broadsheet.iewebsite. People should look at this online. The footage shows someone who is rough sleeping interacting with a garda and being pepper-sprayed and treated in a rough manner. At first viewing, this would seem be very troubling and deserves investigation as to what happened. In regard to the question of rent...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...has not been included in it. I seek clarification from the Minister. She said one of the approaches adopted involves making use of open source information. What other approaches are used by the Garda to monitor protesters? She also said that she was further informed that no public representative or member of the public is subject to such surveillance by Operation Mizen, which refers to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...questions that arise following the answers she has now given on three occasions? Are members of the public or public representatives subject to any form of surveillance by Operation Mizen or the Garda as a result of participating in anti-water charges protests? The Minister referred to one of the approaches involved, making use of open source information, but what other approaches are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: 49. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there was any investigation within her Department regarding a surveillance programme within An Garda Síochána named Operation Mizen; the approach taken by An Garda Síochána to surveillance of protesters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42694/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (1 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...but she has never ruled out, and I would ask her to clearly rule out, that anti-water charges protesters have been or are currently under surveillance by Operation Mizen or another arm of the Garda.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (20 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is reviewing the procedures for how driving under the influence of alcohol is dealt with by An Garda Síochána. [35280/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (6 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 421. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications the Garda Commissioner has made for authorisation to intercept under the Interception of Postal and Telecommunications Messages (Regulations) Act 1993 during the past five years; the number granted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34299/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (6 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 422. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of a surveillance programme within An Garda Síochána named Operation Mizen; if she sanctioned its formation; if she has received a report on its operation; the number of persons who are the subject of this surveillance; if public representatives at local authority or Oireachtas level are subject to this surveillance;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (6 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: 424. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on spending by An Garda Síochána on surveillance equipment and technology; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34302/15]

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2015)

Paul Murphy: I was speaking about the reportage of the so-called Operation Mizen within the Garda surveillance of anti-water-charge protestors. The issue seemed so serious to us, as the Anti-Austerity Alliance, that in the context of the Dáil not sitting, we wrote to the Minister for Justice and Equality to ask a number of questions. For example, we asked if she was aware that the Garda unit was in...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Sep 2015)

Paul Murphy: The context of the discussion of this Bill is the damage done to the image of the Garda Síochána by various scandals, including the whistleblower and penalty points scandals, and ongoing and blatant political policing. What we have is an attempt to make policing look like something that it is not and giving the impression that we have some form of independent and democratic control...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Sep 2015)

Paul Murphy: My comments relate to the Bill. The point is that we do not have democratic accountability for the Garda, nor is such accountability proposed. If we are to avoid the types of incidents I have highlighted, we must have democratic accountability at a national and community level. This means having working class communities and ordinary people take charge of policing resources and priorities...