Results 41-60 of 756 for garda speaker:Catherine Connolly

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tAire Dlí agus Cirt: Plé. (30 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...Bhí na fíricí sa tuarascáil seo damanta i ndáiríre ó thaobh an easpa dhul chun cinn a bhí le feiceáil. Is é sin an fáth a raibh ar an gCoimisinéir tuarascáil a leagan os comhair na Dála. D'eascair an tuarascáil sin as na coinníollacha ar an talamh i dTír Chonaill, áit a bhfuil easpa gardaí le...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: An tAire Dlí agus Cirt: Plé. (30 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...an joint policing committee ann agus tá sé ráite le déanaí, cosúil le háiteanna agus Gaeltachtaí eile, go bhfuil folúntais ann agus nach bhfuil siad in ann comhaltaí den Gharda Síochána le Gaeilge a fháil nó, uaireanta, tá siad in ann daoine a fháil ach níl an taithí acu. Dúradh linn go...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (29 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...provision in Laois; (4) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss how management companies formulate rules for private housing estates; (5) Deputy Neale Richmond - to discuss the need for body cameras for An Garda Síochána, as set out in the Justice Plan 2022; (6) Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss the NTA’s plan in East Cork for disability services on all bus routes and by rail; (7)...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...Irish Bon Secours congregation with instructions that I should help you. I'm not sure how I can. Let me explain. When the "O My God – mass grave in West of Ireland" broke in an English-owned paper (the Mail) it surprised the hell out of everybody, not least the Sisters of Bon Secours in Ireland, none of whom had ever worked in Tuam and most of whom had never heard of it. She...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...progress to address overcrowding at numerous Irish hospitals; (9) Deputy Niamh Smyth - to discuss procedures for children's school absences of more than 20 days due to Covid-19; (10) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss extra Garda resources to combat the escalation in drug and gang-related violence in Finglas; (11) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - to discuss access to early...

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

Catherine Connolly: ...Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and the Department of Health the staffing of the new e-mental health hub in Castlerea, County Roscommon; (7) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the urgent need for extra Garda resources to be put into Finglas to combat the escalation in drug- and gang-related violence; (8) Deputy Catherine Connolly - the severe reduction in respite beds from 25 pre-Covid to...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (17 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...- to discuss delays to post-mortem services in Dublin city; (8) Deputy Joan Collins - to discuss the proposed deal on the National Maternity Hospital; (9) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss the urgent need for extra Garda resources to be put into Finglas to combat the escalation in drug- and gang-related violence; (10) Deputy Michael McNamara - to discuss fully reopening the National Driver...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...for this Bill came from that. Deputy Cullinane said he wished the impetus for this Bill did not come from an EU directive, which it did not. It came from pain, suffering and the most appalling corruption in the Garda force in that area and, we subsequently learned, in other areas. I again pay tribute to good members of the Garda on the ground, as I do to good politicians, but I do not...

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

Catherine Connolly: ...two ambulance base; (10) Deputy David Stanton - to discuss recognition of Carrigtwohill and Midleton, County Cork as one education centre for second-level school transport; (11) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss extra Garda resources in Finglas to combat the escalation in drug- and gang-related violence; (12) Deputy Colm Burke - to discuss action to deal with the crisis of sewage treatment...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, ensured that the policing powers would be monitored. The Policing Authority was given that role and carried it out very effectively. It praised the Garda when praise was due and it also highlighted some of the problems, but the main issue that was highlighted concerned the compliance of the population. When we clap hands and give awards,...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...population; (6) Deputy Imelda Munster - the matter of the recent announcement of job losses at Hilton Foods, Drogheda; (7) Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - to discuss the urgent need for additional Garda resources in Douglas and Carrigaline; (8) Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - to discuss an update on Garda Operation Copóg, established to target the supply of drugs in Limerick; (9)...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Bunriachtanais Teanga sa Gharda Síochána: Plé (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...; fáilte roimh na finnéithe. B’fhéidir go méadóidh mo thuiscint ar an méid atá tarlaithe de réir a chéile acu tá mé beagán measctha. Tá na ráitis go léir léite agam. Ar phléigh An Garda Síochána an rialachán seo leis an gCoimisinéir Teanga? Níl a fhios agam cén...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Bunriachtanais Teanga sa Gharda Síochána: Plé (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Tá sé tábhachtach deimhneacht a fháil ar an rud atá faoi chaibidil anseo. Aontaím go huile is go hiomlán gur chóir go mbeadh An Garda Síochána mar mhacalla ar an tsochaí ach tá muintir na Gaeltachta agus muintir na Gaeilge thíos ó thaobh na ngardaí de. Tá sé sin admhaithe ag An nGarda Síochána...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Bunriachtanais Teanga sa Gharda Síochána: Plé (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Is fíor é sin. Is é an chaoi ina bhfuil an Garda ag déileáil leis sin an fhadhb atá agam. Faoin Acht 2005, tá dualgais reachtúla ag An nGarda Síochána seirbhísí Gaeilge a chur ar fáil sa Ghaeltacht trí na stáisiúin. Níl na dualgais sin á gcomhlíonadh. Tá sé sin léite agam....

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Bunriachtanais Teanga sa Gharda Síochána: Plé (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Tuigim ach cé mhéad garda atá ag teacht amach as an gcóras sin le hinniúlacht sa Ghaeilge?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Bunriachtanais Teanga sa Gharda Síochána: Plé (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: An bhfuil 100 nó 200 garda ag teacht amach le hinniúlacht sa Ghaeilge de bharr na scéime atá ann?

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

Catherine Connolly: ...: (1) Deputy Duncan Smith - to discuss the crisis in dental care for medical card holders; (2) Deputy Neale Richmond - to ask the Minister for Justice to discuss the need for body cameras for An Garda Síochána; (3) Deputy Paul Donnelly - to discuss the current issues in regard to equipment, staff and industrial action facing the Dublin fire brigade service; (4) Deputy John Lahart...

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

Catherine Connolly: ...- to discuss a uniform approach to allowing fire and rescue service personnel act as first responders in health emergencies in all counties; (24) Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - to discuss the need for additional Garda resources for Carrigaline; and (25) Deputy Michael Healy-Rae - to discuss the need for a deer cull within our national parks. The matters raised by Deputies Jackie...

Appointment of Member and Chair of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...Ring on her work over the past six years. She posed a question to us in a recent interview. She questioned whether politicians "are actually committed to meaningful independent oversight of the gardaí". That should spur us all on to reflect on whether we are. If we are, how have we allowed GSOC to exist without adequate resources and without listening to it year after year? The...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - to discuss the proposed Garda station for the Dublin 13 and 17 area at Northern Cross; (2) Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan - to discuss wastewater treatment for the Castletownshend area; (3) Deputy Pat...