Results 61-80 of 123 for garda speaker:Mick Barry

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Mick Barry: ...witnesses in a trial are all impinged. There is also a lengthening of the time a person can be detained after arrest, a shift in the burden of proof, and the provision that the mere opinion of a Garda be treated as evidence. The Socialist Party and Solidarity oppose these so-called emergency measures. We have opposed them since their inception in 1998 and we will vote against their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: ...affecting him, his wife and their two children. The children are twins aged ten months old. At this point, the choice for this family was to spend a night sleeping on the streets of Cork or in a Garda station. Thankfully, following some engagement with homeless services the family got a stay of execution, so to speak. Will this Bill deter homeless services making a decision to cut off...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting (2 Oct 2018)

Mick Barry: 262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is comprehensive Garda vetting of applicant bus drivers seeking employment at a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39511/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Barry: ...slums. This generation needs to be rescued from being forced to live at home with their parents into their 30s, from sky high rents which have gone up again today and from the hotels, bed and breakfasts and Garda stations. The Government is not letting a good crisis go to waste. It is exploiting it to push a privatisation agenda. The Government's vision is for 87,000 households to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regulation of Rickshaws: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Mick Barry: ...thus far that rickshaws are only being operated in Dublin but that is not the case. For example, rickshaws are being operated in Cork. Earlier this year, 19 rickshaws were seized as part of a Garda operation, conducted jointly with the Revenue Commissioners. There are three options open to us: first, we can allow the current situation to continue; second, we can heavily regulate the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Inquiry (15 May 2018)

Mick Barry: 301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a file on the Garda investigation into the circumstances of person (details supplied) exists, either an original or the copy sent to the Coroner's inquest; if so, the statements that were collected by An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21032/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (13 Feb 2018)

Mick Barry: ...? I also ask him to give a commitment not to go down the road of obstruction, denial of rights and foot dragging, which this Government has attempted to do in recent years. From the moment the Garda organisations won their equivalent case at the European Committee of Social Rights in the autumn of 2016, we put the argument to the Minister of State's office that the Government should...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (24 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: ...soon. I believe 12 February is the date in that regard. When the Defence Forces organisations win their case, as I am confident they will, are they going to have to wait for two years, as the Garda organisations had to do, before we get the merest hint of legislation? As the Minister of State knows, such are the dire conditions being endured by members of our Defence Forces, about which...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (24 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: ...of his colleague the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation to publish in this term the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill which will afford enhanced representative rights to the Garda Representative Association, if a similar Bill that will bestow equivalent rights to PDFORRA and RACO will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3352/18]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (24 Jan 2018)

Mick Barry: Will the Minister bring forward a Bill which will bestow rights to PDFORRA and RACO equivalent to the rights about to be conferred on the Garda Representative Association?

Justice Issues: Statements (28 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: Anyone who has been listening to the former Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, in recent days would get the impression that when she got sight of the fact that the Garda Commissioner was taking an adversarial approach to Maurice McCabe, she wanted to intervene to help the whistleblower but she was legally forbidden to do so. That is the impression anyone would have. I am really struck by the...

Justice Issues: Statements (28 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: ...into the Government's court. Who is right and who is wrong? It seems to me that there is blame in both quarters. It has been shown in what has come out over the past two weeks that the former Garda Commissioner was attacking Maurice McCabe. The senior officials in the Department were well aware of that. The former Minister was briefed, but she did not intervene. Is the Government to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: My question is about the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill. We were told the aim of this Bill is to amend the 1990 Act to give the Garda representative associations access to the State's industrial relations institutions. Yesterday, however, we read about a working group report produced in advance of the legislation, which advises against trade union status. Interestingly, the report...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (26 Jul 2017)

Mick Barry: 59. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Bill relating to the application of the working time directive to members of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces is likely to be presented to Dáil Éireann. [35169/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (26 Jul 2017)

Mick Barry: 65. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Bill relating to the application of the working time directive to members of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces is to be presented to Dáil Éireann. [35168/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rugby World Cup 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)

Mick Barry: Is it beside the Garda station?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (12 Jul 2017)

Mick Barry: 76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the levels of training provided to members of An Garda Síochána in upholding persons' right to protest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33003/17]

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: I have a question and I will soon come to it. Could the Tánaiste comment on the appalling vista that now opens up regarding the role of the Garda Síochána in this affair? The jury has just thrown out a case that was based on 180 witness statements from members of the Garda Síochána, three of whom – a chief superintendent, an inspector and a sergeant –...

Industrial Relations (Defence Forces) (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (20 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: ...; and for these and other purposes to amend the Industrial Relations Act 1990 and the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990; and to provide for related matters. This Bill was inspired by the success of the Garda Representative Association and the AGSI in winning the case brought on their behalf to the European Committee of Social Rights. There, despite opposition from the Government, after two...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mick Barry: ...there were 1,994 children homeless in this State. The figure is now 2,708, which is an increase of 35%. We saw the scandal last month of 12 families with more than 30 children being told to go to Garda stations for accommodation overnight.