Results 21-40 of 123 for garda speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: ...of people took to the streets on Saturday to say that racism and fascism are not wanted in this country. It was an important start to building the militant anti-racist movement we need. Why did gardaí harass anti-racist campaigners as the march began to assemble in Parnell Square? Why were attempts made to prevent members of the Socialist Party handing out placards? Those placards...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: I am glad to see the Minister opposing, in effect, the position being argued by the Tánaiste. I want to make some points about tasers because this is part of the debate now. The Garda Representative Association, GRA, has supported arming gardaí with tasers. That would be a step in the wrong direction. In the United States, more than 1,000 people have been killed by police, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: I might come back some other day to discuss the question of body cameras. I want to use my remaining time to ask about the killing of George Nkencho by gardaí two years ago now. George's family were given to understand by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, that every attempt would be made to complete that investigation within a year of the killing, which would...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Mick Barry: ...be put in place for them. The second weakness is that the review had an unnecessarily defensive tone to it. For example, dozens of cases of having been trafficked into this country have been reported to An Garda Síochána by non-EEA fishers. The report says that those claims were shown to be without foundation by the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP. The DPP never said...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: ...understanding that the inquest into the death of George Nkencho is due to reconvene in June. However, it is also my understanding that the inquest cannot properly reconvene until such time as the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation into his death is complete. That investigation is not yet complete. The Nkencho family had been given to believe that it would...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation into the killing of George Nkencho had a targeted finish date of 30 December, the one-year anniversary of George's death. That deadline was not met. Not only was it not met, but it is now eight weeks past the deadline with no indication of when the investigation will be completed. Can the Taoiseach provide the House...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The Garda had to be called to Blackpool, on Cork's north side, this morning when an attempt was made to physically disrupt the start of the working day at Múin Preschool on Brocklesby Street. The disruption took the form of the erection of a blockade comprising a van and cones at the entrance to the site where the school is based, the diagonal parking of a car on the site where the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: ...assemble at Custom House Quay tonight to mark the one-year anniversary of the death by violence of Ms Urantsetseg Tserendorj. I hope I have correctly pronounced her name. Last Sunday morning, gardaí called to the home of Limerick woman, Ms. Aislinn O'Keeffe, serving her with a court order. What was her crime? She is the alleged organiser of a tiny, socially distant stand-out...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: They would like to know if the DPP and Garda do not have anything better to do with their time.

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...;17 million for the greyhound industry. It is unreal. The Bill proposes to give new powers to the police. In discussing those proposals, it cannot go without comment that we are talking about resources for a Garda force that ignored thousands of 999 calls, which ignored claims of image-based sexual abuse and which, at the last count that I am aware of, since 2018 has had at least a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (9 Nov 2021)

Mick Barry: ...while out walking her dog. A man in his 20s or 30s approached her and struck her to the ground without warning and sexually assaulted her. He fled when two witnesses answered her cries. The Garda says it would have been far more serious had gardaí not arrived. The woman was taken to hospital. This is just one of the latest examples of Ireland's epidemic of gender-based violence....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda National Immigration Bureau can agree to a face-to-face appointment with an Egyptian national (details supplied]) who was recently granted a change of status but is required by the Egyptian authorities to have an up-to-date visa sticker on their recently renewed Egyptian passport if they are to be permitted to...

Long-Term Residential Care: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: ...of State, Deputy Butler, is reported in the Irish Examinerthis evening as saying she plans to report any potentially criminal allegations involving abuse and neglect in nursing homes to the Garda. She repeated the point in her speech. As the Minister of State knows, potential abuse and neglect in HSE nursing homes are already automatically referred both to the Garda and registered...

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

Mick Barry: Those who experience gender-based violence, mainly women, should get a big helping hand but instead the State stacks the odds against them. If you have rung 999 in recent years, the Garda might have cancelled your call and ignored your plea for help. If you try to leave the family home, you are confronted by a housing crisis and a shortage of refuge places. If you try to achieve financial...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Jul 2021)

Mick Barry: ...it must be decent training, with decent pay and a job at the end of it. There must be a programme of State investment in jobs for young people. There is no doubt in my mind that there is a significant increase in Garda harassment of young people throughout the country, especially in working-class communities. Whatever needs to be done to ensure that is knocked on the head must be done....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: A story in today's edition of The Irish Times tells us that more than 3,000 999 calls reporting domestic violence were cancelled by the Garda in 2019 and 2020. There is talk of disciplinary action. Would the Tánaiste agree that the number of cancelled calls speaks to something more than sloppy policing by particular members of the Garda? At best, it speaks to me of a failure on the...

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

Mick Barry: ...to introduce this legislation alongside them. Not only is she doing that, but she is also proposing to bring it in at the same time as the new draconian police powers contained in the proposed Garda Síochána (powers) Bill, including sweeping changes to people's rights regarding search and arrest, access to private communications as part of a search by gardaí with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (16 Jun 2021)

Mick Barry: 35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Workplace Relations Commission participated in joint operations with An Garda Síochána focused on the detection of labour exploitation in the fishing industry in 2020 or 2019; if so, the outcome of those inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32145/21]

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

Mick Barry: ...This was despite the fact that the drivers did not plan to congregate in person, but to stay in their vehicles. When Black Lives Matter protested in the capital last June, stewards were questioned by gardaí and had their names taken. The threat of potential prosecution was widely advertised by the Garda in the media. In the middle of last March, gardaí intervened at the...

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

Mick Barry: ...out what might have been the first large-scale survey of Ireland's black and ethnic minority communities. Some 54% polled said that they did not feel confident to report a racist incident to a garda. Twenty years on, how much has changed? The recent survey by Youth Against Racism and Inequality interviewed people of colour and Travellers. Some 35% said they had the experience of being...