Results 41-60 of 285 for garda speaker:Louise O'Reilly

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Before I address the issue of the national economic recovery plan I wish to say a word of thanks to the members of An Garda Síochána who are having their patience tested outside today. My thanks also go to the Oireachtas staff and the staff in the convention centre who are having to deal with those people. The disrespect shown to Members and staff going in and out of Leinster...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...entire area was closed off. We cannot keep shunting people around and, at the same time, tell them the message is to go outside if, when they go outside, there is nothing there for them except a fence. Gardaí have to police people trying to get to one area. That is a waste of their time and a waste of Garda resources. Somewhere in the city, while gardaí were standing policing...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...contacted his office. The public health message is that we will have our summer outdoors. That means we need more facilities such as bins and public toilets. It also means that we will need to see more gardaí on our streets but, as well as that, we will need to see increased funding for community-based services and activities for younger people. It is not fair to demonise young...

Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...workers when evicting people from a property on Dublin's North Frederick Street and also the scenes some years back in Roscommon. Members of the public were appalled by those scenes and by gardaí standing by and allowing those scenes to develop. I do not know if anyone in this House has ever been evicted from their dwelling. I have been, and it was absolutely horrendous. It was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Online Content Moderation: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...have? It seems there is a bit of an "Upstairs, Downstairs" situation going on. There are directly employed and outsourced workers. There is clearly a comparator. I would say the comparator exists with An Garda Síochána. Even if it did not, there is clearly a comparator with directly employed personnel. Will Ms Ní Bhrógáin outline for us briefly the challenges...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...for Justice. As Deputy Martin Kenny outlined, this is only part of the wider picture. It all depends on the mechanisms by which legislation is enforced. The personnel involved in this are our gardaí who are on the front line. As Deputy Martin Kenny said, it is all very well for us to talk about the need for supports in communities, as well as the need for us to tackle drug-related...

Public Service Pay Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...be impacted on by this deal and who were not represented. I recall, from my time on the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Union, ICTU, talking to representatives from the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, the Garda Representatives Association and PDFORRA, who often referred it as being like the big table and the little table, or the upstairs and the...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Mar 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...it. That is where this legislation would benefit from a full discussion on Committee Stage. We know fraud exists. That is why the establishment of a stand-alone insurance fraud unit within An Garda Síochána to investigate insurance fraud, if and when it occurs, is long overdue. It is clear that various criminal activities in the insurance market are becoming more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019 (16 Feb 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...wages for it. What happens to an employer who breaches the rules? Do they go onto a list whereby they will not be issued with work permits again? Is it a wrist slap? Are they referred to the Garda? What happens to them? How many of them are there? Can we be sure the flexibilities Ms Ward referred to will not be extended to them again if they have proven themselves to be poor...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2021 (2 Feb 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...Bill. I am trying to hone in on something. With the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, and others, for instance, there is quite a high bar in terms of that surveillance. Obviously, it goes through the Garda. There is a structure. The courts must be involved or else a superior officer. It seems that these powers would be granted outside of that process. It raises the question that we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2021 (2 Feb 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: In such an scenario, the recourse is not to the Garda. The recourse is direct to the courts. In terms of time, as Ms McNamara said, much of this activity happens at short notice and people will not give the CCPC six months' notice in time to get its affairs in order. Is there a worry that the courts might somehow delay it and that might be an obstacle? Is there a facility for them to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion
General Scheme of an Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill
Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion General Scheme of an Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill (22 Jan 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ..., many are very well resourced as are their professional advisers. Does Mr. Drennan feel the parties being investigated have a substantial advantage over his office? I have heard members of An Garda Síochána and other commentators say that drug gangs and other criminals have an advantage over the Garda and it is sometimes down to resourcing. Can Mr. Drennan expand on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Services (20 Jan 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...if there are regulations within the current public health guidelines regarding the possible return of a spouse to the family home during the level 5 restrictions; and if these have been conveyed to An Garda Síochána. [2630/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (1 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of carer's allowance are subject to Garda vetting as part of the application process for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39642/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (1 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of carers allowance are subject to Garda vetting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39643/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response Final Report: Motion (19 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...need ongoing support. I want to put that issue on the Minister's agenda so that a facility can be put in place to ensure the mental health supports that are needed can be provided both while the Garda investigation is ongoing and in its aftermath. I want to focus on the restarting of non-Covid care. The waiting lists the Minister and I discussed on many occasions in this House did...

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...One thing we have learned because of the pandemic is what an essential worker really is. When I was growing up, if someone had asked me what an essential worker was, I probably would have said a nurse, a garda or somebody such as a firefighter or someone perceived to be on the front line in that way. The pandemic showed us, however, that supply chain workers, cleaners and people in...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (18 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...be a meeting. This is a new form of work. I am going back to my trade union days to try to find an analogous grade or a comparator and the only one I could come up with would be members of An Garda Síochána who would be detailed with investigating incidents of child pornography. By virtue of their job, they would have to view similar images but I am also aware that content...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (17 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for the completion of all necessary works on Rush Garda station to allow it to reopen; and the date by which the station is scheduled to be reopened. [36589/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Workplace Safety (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...I ask that this new form of work would be recognised as such. I do not think that the Tánaiste intends to be unfair to them, but it is not fair to say they can go to the HSA or, indeed, to the Garda. This is a workplace issue. It is one that perhaps legislation and legislators need to catch up with because it is very much a new form of work and a new type of occupation.