Results 81-100 of 123 for garda speaker:Mick Barry

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.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Perhaps the Taoiseach might ask the Garda Commissioner about the phone, try to establish the position and then let the House know. On the question of legacy, the Taoiseach will want part of his legacy to be the speech where he criticised the church and mentioned, among other things, the Magdalen laundries. The Magdalen laundries of this day and age are the direct provision centres. What...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2017)

Mick Barry: Former Garda press officer, Superintendent Dave Taylor, claims that he sent a text to the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, some years ago in which he told her that a journalist had interviewed a person making allegations against Maurice McCabe. Superintendent Taylor claims Commissioner O'Sullivan sent a one-word reply, "Perfect." We are told now that Commissioner...

Questions on Promised Legislation (11 May 2017)

Mick Barry: In recent days, there has been media comment on the circumstances leading up to the death of the journalist and blogger, Ms Dara Quigley. Very serious questions have been raised about the Garda Síochána and its treatment of the most vulnerable in society. I will leave those questions for another day. Today, I want to ask the Tánaiste about the question of dual diagnosis....

Report of the Fennelly Commission: Statements (12 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: ..., about the investigation into the murder of Mrs. Sophie Toscan du Plantier at her holiday home in west Cork in December of 1996 - an horrific crime. The murder investigation team was based at the Garda station in Bandon. Their phone calls were recorded without their knowledge. The Fennelly report tells us that all bar a few of the tapes were destroyed in a flood at the station in...

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Barry: I am sharing my time with Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett. It is clear from this debate this evening that if the Garda Commissioner remains in her post for the next period, it will be in large measure courtesy of the Fianna Fáil Party. It is true that those who have the power to remove the Commissioner are the members of the Cabinet but the reality is that if this House were to have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: ...application being taken to the European Committee of Social Rights by EUROMIL on behalf of PDFORRA seeking enhanced employee and representative rights for the Defence Forces akin to that won by the Garda organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15538/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: ...is being taken to the European Committee of Social Rights by EUROMIL on behalf of PDFORRA seeking enhanced employee and representative rights for the Defence Forces akin to those won by the Garda organisations. Will the Minister of State indicate his views and make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: ...shop. It also is about the severe curbs that are being placed on members of the armed forces and their organisation, PDFORRA, in representing its members in the manner of a real trade union. The Garda Representative Association, GRA, and the AGSI were successful in taking a case to the European Committee of Social Rights in the teeth of opposition from the Minister of State's colleagues...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: Yesterday, while arguing that she should stay in the top job while the investigation goes on, the Garda Commissioner said we have to keep the lights on while we are rewiring the house. It is an interesting analogy. The people who should be the keyholders of the house, the people of Ireland, have lost all faith in the chief electrician and believe she should be given the sack. This may well...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: If this House votes that she be removed as Garda Commissioner, will the Tánaiste respect the will of the House or will she refuse to act, defy the will of the House and keep her in her job until the next scandal arises?

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: There has been one scandal after another: Maurice McCabe, John Wilson, Dave Taylor, Nicky Keogh, Keith Harrison, the bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, the tapping of calls from Garda stations and now the falsification of Garda records on an industrial scale across the country. It underlines the strength of the socialist demand that there be a sharp break...

Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: ...and the fact that to satisfy even the basic norms of accountability the Tánaiste should, at the very least, come before the House, give an account of the current situation that pertains in the Garda, and answer questions from Members on that. If Members want to find space today as to when that could be done, I suggest there is an issue on the Order Paper that perhaps could wait for a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Garda Representative Association claim that the €1,000 raise being given to other public sector workers will be extended to their members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3423/17]

Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2017)

Mick Barry: ...I sometimes think Otto the bus driver from "The Simpsons" would have more of a clue. The Minister was very alert to the rights of rural communities when he issued a call to arms to save the Stepaside Garda station. Why does he not show the same concern when rural communities outside of his constituency face abandonment by his Department? The unions have requested a meeting with the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (16 Dec 2016)

Mick Barry: 43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received a report from An Garda Síochána on the raids that have been carried out on fishing ports in an effort to uncover abuses of migrant fishermen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37687/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Remuneration (24 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the part played by his Department in the negotiations with the Garda representative associations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36543/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: I understand that concessions have been won by the Garda, which will lead to amendments to the Garda Síochána Act and-or the industrial relations legislation to specifically permit the Garda to access the industrial relations fora of the State, and to affiliate to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. My question is whether similar amendments can be introduced into the Defence Forces...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (9 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: .... The armed forces suffered the same impositions as the rest of the public service, including pension levies, pay cuts and pay inequality. Their conditions compare unfavourably to those of the Garda, but they have even fewer rights when it comes to giving any kind of expression to the savaging of their living standards. My office was astonished to be told that members of the armed...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (9 Nov 2016)

Mick Barry: 24. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in view of indications that the Garda Representative Association and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors will have statutory access to the same statutory industrial relations fora as other trade unions, his Department will extend these same rights to PDFORRA and RACO. [33821/16]