Results 21-40 of 110 for garda speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: We welcome the Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill, which seeks to reduce costs in the administration of Garda compensation claims by having claims assessed by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB, rather than the High Court. Under the revised scheme, an injured member of the force will make an application to the Garda Commissioner, who will then cause a report to be...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...elderly people are encountering severe problems in attaining home help. They are waiting for months. We cannot understand this because on the other side I know that people have qualified, are Garda vetted and are ready to go. The answer I am getting back day after day is that they do not have the staff and that they are waiting for them to be Garda vetted. There is something wrong....

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...will never open again. That is a fact. Attitudes are changing and, possibly, people are resigned to buying alcohol and having a few drinks at home because there is no problem with meeting the Garda on the road or whatever if they do so. People are doing things differently now. I worry that things will never again be the same for many businesses. I have made calls in the House, day...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...want is more work. They could deal with motor tax, licence renewals, registrations, identity verification and community information. When the country was broke and we had nothing, we had post offices, Garda stations and GPs in every parish. Deputy Griffin talked about the local improvement scheme for rural roads. We only got enough money for ten roads in County Kerry this year out of...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... On our licence it states we are licensed to sell beer and tobacco to be consumed on the premises. Nothing could be clearer than that. Members of the Government were not aware of that until the Garda in Galway woke them up and they decided to do this. Now we are voting to appoint judges as well. Why could there not be a separate Bill for that? I welcome what many pubs have done....

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister made a promise to teachers and other front-line workers such as members of the Garda that they would get the vaccine in order that we could keep schools open and gardaí on the road. Will he follow up on that and ensure he adheres to the promises he made?

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to be remedied or sorted out. To go back only a few years, we saw how willing was the State to get involved in County Kerry with the Kerry babies case. We know what wrongs happened there, yet the Garda was used to the maximum there. The murder squad and the highest people in that force were down there at that time. It amazes me that this saga continued until 1998. I did not know...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and even from parts of south Kerry where the pubs will not be able to open. They are all going to arrive into Killarney. For those who do not, shebeens will open up and, as I said earlier, the Garda will have to have very good jeeps and other vehicles to find them. It was easier to monitor and work with the regulated pubs. The Government is making a massive mistake in not allowing all...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Pension Provisions (19 Nov 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Garda pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37463/20]

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...told that any relief that was to be had from having a hybrid SUV will be removed. That is wrong. Consider a family with three children. To comply with safety regulations and to be able to face the gardaí on the road when being checked, one must have special seats for the three children, which will not fit into a normal saloon car. Families may need seven-seater cars in order that...

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...fashion. I have the same couple of accounts for God knows how many years. Surely with all the modern equipment the bank now has, it would be able to notice any unusual transaction and notify the Garda, Criminal Assets Bureau or other relevant authority. It would be entitled to do so. That would be sufficient. It is unfair on all politicians that they are asked to sign a document that...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ..., I have a concern with it as well in that he says it would be up to the publican to demand a court hearing. Why is the venom all being directed to the publican? For all other citizens, the Garda issues a summons and prosecutes. That is the form the law takes with every other offence. I do not see why it should be up to the publican to go to the expense of calling or demanding a court...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will. I am sorry, but I am cross with what is going on and what is being attempted in Dáil Éireann today. I am suggesting that if the crime is so serious and a garda, on the instructions of the Minister, says that the rule is broken in such a fashion, there should be a court organised immediately and the defendant, the publican in this case, should be given a chance to defend...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...are open here in Dublin. Two thirds of them are still closed down in Kerry and along the west coast. These people have done nothing wrong. We are suggesting that uniformed or plain-clothes gardaí can enter a premises. It does not say whether it is a private house out in the country where people are terrified. What the Government is suggesting is that when a knock comes at the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Staff (30 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...for the people of Kerry, for the first time as Minister. It has to do with the hiring of teachers who may be asked to work in different schools. This also affects other workers. Surely the one Garda vetting process should do. Under the regulations as they stand, someone must be vetted two or three times if he or she will be working in two or three different schools. Surely it makes...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I thank the many gardaí, male and female, throughout this country who uphold law and order and carry out their duties, largely unarmed, in dangerous situations where they come across villains, thugs, drug lords and others involved in serious crime. I thank them for all that they do locally to help the elderly and people living...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank my local authority, Kerry County Council, its management and workers for the great work they have been doing continually during this virus. I thank Radio Kerry, the Garda and all the voluntary workers around the county who have done tremendous work for people cocooning and those who are very isolated. It is only now that we realise the value of businesses and employers. I have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: What does the Tánaiste have to say about the comments of a Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, who said gardaí had let down the people living in Border counties? Does the Tánaiste realise the Government let down gardaí there by not giving them resources such as Garda cars and cutting overtime? Rank and file gardaí throughout the country were hurt by the comments made...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...prove that in spite of the new law accidents and fatalities have increased. It is not the people in rural Ireland who have caused that. I ask again that the Government to probe the idea that the Garda would give permits to people who are rurally isolated for class three and cul-de-sac roads and if they stray outside those roads to nail them then. It would be for these roads only, not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...into towns and villages, with no law and order being enforced. When they cause an accident, no one claims ownership of them, but if somebody shoots one of them, there is an investigation by An Garda Síochána and the National Parks and Wildlife Service. There is no accountability, which is unfair to motorists because they are not safe on the roads.