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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...we rely on the Post Office (Amendment) Act 1951 to deal with some of these issues. It is a terrible subject and difficult to listen to. I may come back to the ongoing training being provided to gardaí to deal with these very difficult subjects. No amount of legislation will sort this, although legislation is needed. It is clear that legislation should always be a last resort. Of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that the work of the Garda is very difficult, but why is that being delayed? It is essential.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I had the privilege of listening to the Garda Commissioner talk about this, so I am aware of all that. It is worrying that we must wait until next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...that. We have spent a long time in the Dáil trying to get a second SAVI report to establish the prevalence of sexual violence. We are all fighting and speaking from the same book. What has An Garda Síochána done and what resources has it committed to obtain accurate knowledge and facts? What can the witnesses direct me to so that I can see what is happening with crime online?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Perhaps Mr. Gubbins could come back to me with that. I appreciate that. Have service providers, which will be coming before us in the next two weeks, provided the Garda with any breakdown of the types of problems they encounter in the Garda's co-operation with them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: We need to come back to that. My last question concerns other models. New Zealand, Australia and Scotland have been cited in the other presentations. Has an Garda looked at that? Have its members visited those jurisdictions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...in Donegal. The list starts with the post of a senior occupational therapist, an audiologist, a physiotherapist, a dental surgeon and so on. The point is they have gone through the process and the Garda vetting and they have got their jobs. Can the Minister imagine that? They have celebrated the fact they have got their jobs but what happens? They are told they cannot take up that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...os á gcomhair agus os comhair an Choiste um Chuntais Phoiblí freisin. Molaim lucht an fhórsa. Is é sin ceann de na bealaí inar féidir leo muinín a chothú. The witnesses are very welcome. It is very good that Garda management personnel have come before the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality. This is my second meeting as a member of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...of things. It is extraordinary that we have to go down the road of embedding a code of ethics. It is mentioned on page 19 of one of the documents that we have been furnished with that 95% of Garda personnel are to be trained in this code of ethics and all trained personnel are to have signed up to the code by the fourth quarter of the year. Where are we with that? Where are we with the...

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: How long has it been with the Garda?

Public Accounts Committee: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018 (11 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Does Mr. Finnegan have an update on the case from the Garda?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (2 Jul 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda asset profilers attached to each Garda division as of 21 June 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27784/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (11 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 362. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda public service vehicles inspectors attached to the Galway Garda division in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24092/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (11 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 363. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of purchasing ten additional horses for the Garda mounted unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24093/19]

Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...more murders without learning from them. I pay tribute to Women's Aid on this point. There is a lack of funding, a lack of refuges and a lack of evidence-based figures, because we cannot rely on the Garda figures. The Central Statistics Office was before the Committee of Public Accounts recently and its representatives said the statistics were published under reservation so we need...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Equipment (14 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the age of each truck attached to the Garda water unit; if funding will be provided for the replacement of the oldest age truck in the unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20806/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (14 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the full-year cost of recruiting four additional full-time vehicle technicians for An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20807/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...provide the level of detail we requested. Is it agreed to note and publish the correspondence? Agreed. No. 2144B, dated 26 April, is correspondence from Chief Superintendent Dermot Mahon of An Garda Síochána, responding to a request from the committee for information in regard to financial matters in Templemore, the tax treatment of the living allowances for students at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...the last meeting, there are four for review this week. The first is from the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, which received a clear audit opinion. We will note that. The second is from An Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, which also received a clear audit opinion, which we will note. The third is from the Heritage Council, with a clear audit opinion, apart from...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe go léir, agus an Coimisinéir nua ach go háirithe. Guím gach rath air ina ról. Tá muidne, An Garda Síochána, agus, níos tábhachtaí, muintir na tíre ag brath air chun bealach nua a thaispeáint. I wish Mr. Harris the best in his new role. The gardaí are dependent on him, but more...