Results 21-40 of 756 for garda speaker:Catherine Connolly

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (22 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...;amon Ó Cuív - to discuss concern in Galway in relation to the proposed funding for the LEADER programme in Galway from 2023 to 2027. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan - to discuss the recruitment crisis in An Garda Síochána. Deputy Paul Donnelly - to discuss teacher recruitment in Coolmine Community School where many students lack access to metalwork, woodwork and technical...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...money for horse racing. Deputy Holly Cairns - to discuss the pressing need for a bus service for young adults with disabilities in Beara, County Cork. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan - to discuss the recruitment crisis in An Garda Síochána. Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the full reopening of Shannondoc services in Thurles, County Tipperary, to operate out of the new primary...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...and hate crime is simply intolerable. We need legislation to prevent that, but the balance is essential. We are doing that in a vacuum with no data. One of the documents I read stated that An Garda Síochána published its first official statistics following the introduction of its new reporting system in 2022. It was the first time this was done. The statistics indicated that...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...means required to achieve the purported aim. This legislation is not the least restrictive means; it is bringing in serious penalties and it is not proportionate. It is giving much more power to the Garda in search warrants and so on. The UN Rabat plan, which goes back to 2012, subject to correction, implies, among other things, that restrictions are "clearly and narrowly defined and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...technology in the classroom. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan - to discuss the proposed accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers in County Kildare. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan - to discuss the recruitment crisis in An Garda Síochána. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - to discuss the activities of the Office of the Planning Regulator and various county and city development plans. Deputy...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (9 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...to discuss the plans to restrict home birth services to women living within 30 minutes of a maternity hospital. Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the public use of the swimming pool in Templemore Garda College. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - to discuss the lack of a dedicated island LEADER subgroup in County Galway for 2023 to 2027 for the offshore islands Deputy Richard Bruton...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...programme in Galway for 2023 to 2027 and the lack of a dedicated island LEADER subgroup fund for the offshore islands. Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the public use of the swimming pool in Templemore Garda College. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae - to discuss the critical situation in Kerry regarding accommodation for a person with intellectual disability in residential care. Deputy Aengus...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...O'Sullivan - to discuss fuel subsidy for the fishing sector with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Deputy Jackie Cahill - to discuss the public use of the swimming pool in the Garda Síochána College, Templemore. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor - to discuss the model of contracts for services between the Departments of Social Protection and Health, and...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...for fuel allowance. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - to discuss capacity and staffing issues at University Hospital Limerick. Deputy David Stanton - to discuss the need to begin recruitment for the Garda Reserve. Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss the need for more regular inspections of housing assistant payment properties. Deputy Paul McAuliffe - to discuss the issue of safety on...

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (18 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has passed the Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021, without amendment.

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

Catherine Connolly: ...brought in. On pages 31 and 32 of the report, it is stated that: Since the introduction of the Atypical Worker Permission Scheme in 2016, the WRC has: - Carried out 7 enforcement operations - Participated in a Garda-led operation - Carried out almost 500 inspections of the 170 vessels in the Scheme - Completed 228 investigations - Detected 365 contraventions of employment...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (6 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...ongoing and serious issue of the removal of the two youngest children from the custody of their mother, forcibly by order of the court, whereby the children were removed from the classroom by the Garda on the basis of the need to separate the children in order to secure a victory in court for the opposing side, notwithstanding the serious psychological damage done to both mother and...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (4 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...- to discuss the ongoing and serious issue of the forcible removal from the custody of a mother in County Kildare of two of her youngest children by court order whereby the children were removed from the classroom by the Garda on the basis of the need to separate the children in order to secure a victory in court for the opposing side, notwithstanding the serious psychological damage done...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (14 Jul 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...housing development; (2) Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - to discuss reports of a chronic shortage of childcare places in County Wicklow; (3) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - to discuss plans for the new Garda station in the Dublin 13 area in northern cross; (4) Deputy Réada Cronin - to discuss the status of and development for Gaelcholáiste Mhaigh Nuad; (5) Deputy...

Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...the Bill. That is serious because that Murray report arose from GSOC taking information from journalists under the 2011 Act. I have another case on my desk in respect of which the Court of Appeal finally saw sense regarding what had happened in the District Court and the High Court in the context of a warrant to take a journalist's phone. Right up to today, we have gardaí going...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuairimí an Aosa Óg: Plé (18 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...xfa; meanma dom. Tá siad ag caint ar na rudaí ceannann céanna agus atáimid ag caint orthu os comhair an choiste. Labhair Katie Ní Shúilleabháin maidir le seirbhísí i nGaeilge agus maidir leis na gardaí. Suím ar an gcoiste póilíneachta sin. Tá an t-uafás brú agus ceisteanna curtha agam féin agus ag an...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (11 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...respite services in community mental health settings in east Cork; (9) Deputy Chris Andrews - to ask the Minister for Justice to comment on the recent announcement of the cancellation of training courses for An Garda Síochána's armed support unit for the Dublin region as, given the reports that the Dublin region armed support unit is operating well below full operational level...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Inquiries (4 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 402. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the inquiry into the conduct and adequacy of the investigations conducted by An Garda Síochána into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22232/22]

Garda Síochána (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (27 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: A message will be sent to Seanad Éireann acquainting it that Dáil Éireann has agreed to amendments Nos. 1 to 27, inclusive, made by Seanad Éireann to the Garda Síochána (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...% of people had relatively high levels of trust in the Dáil while just over one quarter had relatively high trust in politicians or political parties, which is a damning statistic, is it not? More had trust in An Garda Síochána, which is extraordinary. This is testament to our experience of An Garda Síochána on the ground and certainly not the behaviour of...