Results 101-120 of 756 for garda speaker:Catherine Connolly

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (4 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...ánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to establish a formal accredited training service for oversight personnel employed in GSOC to further empower them to critically investigate Garda actions; the analysis her Department has carried out into the cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12295/21]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...meas an-mhór agam ar an raidió. This is the place for announcements to instil confidence in the people. We are dealing with the people in a draconian manner with increased fines while putting an extra burden on An Garda Síochána. At a point when our relationship with An Garda had made a turn for the better, we are making the lives of gardaí impossible. I hope...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Common Security and Defence Policy (11 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of deployed civilian CSDP experts who are retired members of the Defence Forces; the number who are retired members of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7483/21]

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...that there is a pandemic. The review report outlines many weaknesses dating back years in regard to gaps and what should be done in Ireland. On the positive side, it states that the principal agencies charged with the investigation and prosecution of crime function well given the limitations imposed by their resources which in some cases, in particular in the case of the Garda National...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...a very important role leading to the establishment of the Morris Tribunal in April 2002 and the report was finally published in October 2008. That was set up to investigate complaints concerning some gardaí in the Donegal division. By 2018 the cost of that was €68.8 million and rising. I think it is over €70 million now. I am inclined to say the biggest mistake - but...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...believe, 16 years later. We signed the optional protocol in 2012 but we did not ratify it. This is very important because without ratifying it, there is no recourse for the citizen who is affected by the failures of various Governments. It is interesting that later today, we will be asked to sanction the appointment of two new members to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 11 November 2020, the status of the inquiry under section 42 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 into the Garda Síochána investigation following the death of a person (details supplied); when the final report will be published and sent to the family; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Procedures (10 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the An Garda Síochána review into the use of anti-spit hoods has been completed; if she has she received a copy of the review; when the review will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42556/20]

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...level of violence is going on. We were told at the previous meeting of the joint policing committee in Galway that there has been a 37% increase in the number of domestic incidents the county. I wish they would stop using words such as "domestic incidents". They minimise what we are talking about. There was no follow-up, not because the Garda was at fault but because there was...

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...the Taoiseach, which did not do as well, the undermining of NPHET and all the false messages going out. There was the distinction between wet and dry pubs, which was absurd from day one and a waste of Garda time, with gardaí going in to see who was eating a substantial meal. There were the draconian measures we did not need, described as such by the Policing Authority. The Garda...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (24 Nov 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...áin - to discuss the scarcity of second level places in north Dublin owing to schools reducing their intake to enable social distancing; (5) Deputy Neale Richmond - to discuss the need to ring-fence moneys seized by an Garda Síochána and other State agencies for early intervention programmes to tackle crime and the illegal drugs trade; (6) Deputy Paul Donnelly - to discuss...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...Deputy Jim O'Callaghan - to discuss permitting teenagers and young people to play competitive sporting fixtures if level 3 restrictions are imposed; (11) Deputy Martin Kenny - to discuss involvement of an Garda Síochána in a joint EU-funded research project called ROXANNE, real-time network, text, and speaker analytics for combating organized crime; (12) Deputy Paul Donnelly - to...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...language is to mean something, we need a budget to reflect there is no going back. Without a doubt, the Minister did the right thing with the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, and with the wage subsidy scheme. I have praised him for that. Yesterday, however, we looked at a sunset clause and I will bring it straight back to the topic. The sunset clause for the extra draconian powers...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (4 Nov 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...game going on The Minister gave a speech of a few pages. It is extraordinary that the Policing Authority was not been mentioned once, nor was there any reference to a written comment from the Garda Commissioner. Although he has been dragged into this to say that he agrees with these measures, I have seen no reference to a press release where he does. This takes me by surprise because I...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...Dáil. With regard to the Policing Authority reports, at the risk of being called a misreport after all the reports about the commission of inquiry, it has done us all a great favour. Let me pay tribute to the gardaí, as the Policing Authority has. Like my colleagues, I have called for more gardaí. They have stood up to the challenge of Covid, notwithstanding the Morris...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...billion per year but I cannot find any reference to this new Government's transforming actions dealing with domestic violence. Ireland is obliged to have 472 refuge places but we have 141. There is an epidemic of domestic violence, although the Garda and policing authorities have been brilliant, and I pay tribute to them. They can only do so much. In a truly transformative budget,...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (17 Sep 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...nonetheless denied the cert when assessed against Regulation 3 of the 1994 regulations and in turn upheld their appeal and argued for the certificate to be awarded in such cases; (7) Deputy Mark Ward - to discuss Garda resources to deal with Dublin Bus curtailments due to antisocial behaviour; (8) Deputies John Lahart and Jim O'Callaghan - to discuss the calculated grades provided to...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...is the answer, let us do that but let us stop all this double-talk and double-language. The least the Debenhams workers deserve after 162 days of standing in all sorts of weather and facing arrest by An Garda Síochána simply for drawing attention to their plight is a certain measure of honesty. None of us aspires to being a saint but plain language that we all understand is the...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 Sep 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...- to discuss prioritising the delivery of broadband to schools and business premises in Ballyshannon, south Donegal and north Leitrim; (2) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - to discuss the proposed Garda station for Dublin 13 and Dublin 17; (3) Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - to discuss the accommodation crisis at the Greystones community college, County Wicklow; (4) Deputy Dessie...

Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...with the Dáil. Last week, I voted against the legislation after thinking about it, reading about it and so on. There was no mention that there would be regulations the very next day obliging the gardaí to keep a record. That was not articulated to us. We found that out on the airwaves. We heard from the likes of Deputy MacSharry, who I find myself in agreement with, although...