Results 41-60 of 86 for garda speaker:Shane Cassells

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

Shane Cassells: I have raised the issue of Garda resources in Meath on several occasions with the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, in this Chamber but that was specifically to do with the personnel requirements for our county which still rank as the lowest in the county, a fact confirmed on Monday of this week when the chief superintendent confirmed that resources allocated to Kildare have relegated us to bottom...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: There are issues with the Department of Justice, the Garda, the Department of Health and NAMA.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Retirements (24 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda retirements from each Garda station in County Meath in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18088/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (17 Apr 2018)

Shane Cassells: 79. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in County Meath in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16573/18]

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (5 Dec 2017)

Shane Cassells: 44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in County Meath as of 1 November 2017; the number of community gardaí in the division; and the number of Garda Reserve members and new recruits assigned to the division since recruitment resumed in 2014. [51660/17]

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (5 Dec 2017)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Minister for his response. This is the third occasion in the past month on which I have raised directly with him the issue of garda numbers and crime-related matters in County Meath. I fully appreciate that in our earlier exchanges, the Minister dealt with the macro issue of Garda resources on a national level. I will continue, however, to press the case for Meath for the...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (5 Dec 2017)

Shane Cassells: I am a politician, not a garda, but I hear what the chief superintendent in Meath is saying clearly on behalf of our county. I do not dispute the progress we have made. I attended the launch of the consultation paper on the processes associated with future policing in the State, which was attended by the Minister and Ms Kathleen O'Toole, head of the Commission on the Future of Policing in...

Rural Crime: Motion (21 Nov 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...superintendent, Mr. Fergus Healy, spoke at a public meeting of concerned citizens in Trim last month. I have echoed his words to the Minister before. He stated Meath has the lowest proportion of gardaí per capita in the country, with one garda for every 661 persons. In sharp contrast, Sligo-Leitrim has one garda for every 327. The deployment of an additional 22 gardaí in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (19 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: 53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to streamline Garda resources in the south County Meath area in which county boundaries and divisional boundaries are hindering efficient and effective policing in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44272/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Minister for taking this topical issue on the need for additional Garda resources for County Meath. To cut to the chase, I very much appreciate that the Minister is dealing with the macro issue of putting more gardaí into the system and ensuring the security of our country is strengthened even further. One of the key tenets of the confidence and supply agreement was to...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...separately so he knows the score. This evening I would like the Minister for Justice and Equality to back the chief superintendent and the people of Meath in this cause. One big concern is that any new gardaí coming into Meath will immediately be gobbled up by the big population centres in Navan and Ashbourne. I can understand that. I am from Navan. I know the pressure the area...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the acting Garda Commissioner and wish him well in his role. It was certainly one of the shortest opening statements we are likely to get in the Committee of Public Accounts. It is hugely regrettable that the acting Garda Commissioner has taken the decision not to honour the commitment to release the report into the reopening of Garda stations. The key point is the fact it will...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Shane Cassells: It is interesting because the acting Garda Commissioner mentioned the census and populations trends. I am in a county of 200,000 people where crime is up by 59%. I do not have the level of intelligence afforded by the crime reports the acting Garda Commissioner has but I have the very basic statistics that show that the closure of stations and the reduction of personnel are obviously having...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Shane Cassells: Would anyone have actually contacted Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll, be it a senior official in the Department or anyone on the behest of a Cabinet Member, to extract the Stepaside Garda station away from the others to give it this prominence? I think that people are finding it hard to put this in their head as to why that station was picked out and why an interim draft report would not be...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Shane Cassells: Did anybody bring pressure to bear to say that Stepaside Garda station should be put-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...we are discussing have a detrimental effect on such meetings. The broader ramification of this discussion is that it undermines our efforts when we attend public meetings to discuss policing. Garda stations in Oldcastle and Athboy in north County Meath and others in south County Meath have been closed or are only partially open. When nonsense such as this comes before us, it undermines...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the Garda Commissioner and her team back to the committee. I will focus on the Commissioner's opening statement and the number of gardaí because in all these debates the issue of gardaí numbers on our streets is sometimes overlooked. Is the Garda on course to meet the target it has set of increasing Garda numbers to 21,000 by 2021.?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: Again, is there a plan for the redeployment of 2,000 gardaí to front-line duty by 2021 in Garda stations throughout the country?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: Can that be provided to us in terms of the Garda stations where those numbers, including the 500 for this year, are being redeployed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...built. I pass Kevin Street every morning and it is quite an impressive building. However, the issue is what people do in that building. People listening to this discussion are interested in the Garda's style of policing and what that means. I have attended all the JPC meetings in my home county for over a decade both as a councillor and as a Deputy. There is a fear among the...