Results 21-40 of 86 for garda speaker:Shane Cassells

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting (3 Dec 2019)

Shane Cassells: 272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a speeding offence committed in the UK should be listed as a criminal record on Garda vetting disclosure documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49873/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (13 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be granted Garda clearance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46842/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (12 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and type of Garda vehicles in operation in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46328/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (12 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: 251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and type of Garda vehicles in operation in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46329/19]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (27 Mar 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...Accounts. The Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach is answerable on the Office of the President but he does not answer for all the other additional expenditure. I refer, for example, to the Garda, which is the responsibility of the Department of Justice and Equality, and the OPW, which comes under the remit of the Department of Finance. It is just like local government,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...relating to the Office of the President. When one looks at that office, it appears that the spend is very small until one realises the other elements involved, namely those relating to the Garda, the Army, etc. All of the Accounting Officers involved would have to be brought together in one room in order to try to obtain a real sense of what is being spent in this area.

Juvenile Crime: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...his shop? No, it was just pure thuggish behaviour. It took his father, Mayor Tommy Reilly, to jump in and pull them off his son who at this stage lay battered and bruised on the ground. The Garda was called to the scene but before Mr. Reilly’s broken body had even been placed on a bed in the emergency department in Our Lady's Hospital Navan, the Garda had released the one suspect...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...ran a scheme in a different format which worked well. My county benefitted from it and the chamber of commerce was the applicant which drew down the funds. It has been successful because the Garda use it as a pre-emptive tool and to help with traffic management around the towns. It has an impact. We must ask why CCTV is wanted and if cameras are located in the right areas. The crucial...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Shane Cassells: On a technical point, there is a difference between a data controller and data operator and where the onus on the work output lies. In our case, the Garda is the data operator. It is the gardaí who do all the work. We want that role to be performed by the professionals, in other words, An Garda Síochána. The Garda does all of the work.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Divisional Headquarters (27 Nov 2018)

Shane Cassells: 88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that have been taken by the OPW in the securing of a site for the development of a new Garda divisional headquarters in County Meath as requested by the Chief Superintendent in the division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49196/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Divisional Headquarters (17 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...for Justice and Equality if his Department has examined the possibility of utilising the site identified for the provision of a new courthouse in Navan announced in Project Ireland 2040 for a new Garda divisional headquarters for County Meath to ensure the maximum return for the public purse and the delivery of both projects. [42435/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (17 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí and reservists in each Garda station in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42547/18]

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...close to the OPW headquarters in Trim, that has vacant sites. I am repeatedly told there is no money to provide that. I can tell Mr. Buckley that €11 million would do a good deal for that. I have a Garda chief superintendent who is looking for a divisional headquarters in Meath but there is no progress on that or even a straight answer from the OPW in respect of the site...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: I will revert to the OPW, but let us park it for a second. The Comptroller and Auditor General raised the issue. Let us turn to the Office of the Minister for Justice and Equality in terms of An Garda Síochána. How was that expenditure figure arrived at? I presume all of it relates to wages.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...million are not falling directly under the Office of the President but are being spent on that office. It is a bit like local government, with money being spent on other areas. Is it the case that the Garda Commissioner would, for example, consider last week's situation of someone going straight through the gates and saying "Hello" to the President and decide that the security...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2018)

Shane Cassells: The report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland was published yesterday and, along with the appointment of a new Garda Commissioner, we hope that it will herald a new dawn for policing in Ireland. However, the Garda needs resources, as the Minister well knows, and gardaí are still forced to work in substandard conditions, nowhere more so than in County Meath. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (5 Jul 2018)

Shane Cassells: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the complement of operational gardaí in the Meath Garda division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29457/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Accommodation (5 Jul 2018)

Shane Cassells: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a divisional Garda headquarters in County Meath will be provided in collaboration with the management of An Garda Síochána in view of a request by the chief superintendent in County Meath for same. [29456/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Shane Cassells: No. We operate the scheme in Navan, not the Garda. The Garda has a live feed from it, but the Garda is not the data controller.

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Divisional Headquarters (31 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: In his reply the Minister of State has said, "The Minister for Justice and Equality has been informed by the Garda authorities that the divisional headquarters for the Meath division is based in Navan". There is no divisional headquarters in Navan. This is why I am here. The chief superintendent outlined this fact to the joint policing committee meeting on Monday. I am in the House...