Results 41-60 of 110 for garda speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... I am sorry that I have to admit it, but it is a fact. It is also a fact that we are losing the battle and many families are affected, as it has resulted in many suicides and deaths. The closure of Garda stations on both sides of Kenmare Bay is an issue I have raised several times as it has given drug gangs endless opportunities to bring drugs into the county. Garda stations have been...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of people who pass away. People like to go to funerals but they will miss these too, and there is no going to the creamery now and there are no local shops. Most of the post offices are closed as well as the Garda stations, and there is no interaction in rural Ireland any more. Radio Kerry has a great current affairs programme from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. five days per week, with Treasa...

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...would go out past the gate. They are primarily responsible for the safety of the children. It is a fair responsibility to be entrusted with the safety of another person's child. They have to be Garda vetted, and they have to be correct in every way, because this onus of responsibility is upon them. As other Deputies stated, school secretaries are the point of contact between parents...

Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of drugs and that it is used by these villains who supply and are in command of drugs and who are destroying our communities. We hear so much of it every day. I know it will be difficult for the Garda to apprehend these fellows. I believe now it is coming close to the time when the gardaí themselves have to be armed because the criminals going around now are getting more serious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Sneem and even Kilgarvan, the big problem is sourcing or meeting requests for insurance cover. They will all be wiped out. Given everything else that has been taken from them, including post offices, Garda stations, local shops and service stations, many local communities have very little left with which to retain their identity. They have been trying their best. This year some of them...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (26 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and fairness, he did not answer my question. It is ridiculous. Did he get mixed up or did he get the answer to another answer? What has gone wrong? I asked him a question about the closure of Garda stations on both sides of Kenmare Bay, but he dealt with the matter of sentencing and something else unrelated to my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (26 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: No, that is not it. It is about the closure of Garda stations.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (26 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Something has gone wrong as the Minister is not dealing with my priority question. As I said, the closure of so many Garda stations on both sides of Kenmare Bay has left the area unserviced, response times are not adequate and communities genuinely believe they are being exposed to the importation of drugs along this massive coastline. Every town and village in County Kerry is rife with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (26 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Following the closure of many Garda stations on both sides of Kenmare Bay, including Lauragh, Portmagee, Ballinskelligs and Valentia Island, and given that many more such as those in Sneem and Waterville are only open at certain times, there are genuine concerns among communities in this vast area that response times in seeking Garda assistance are not adequate and that this is creating an...

Rural and Community Development: Statements (Resumed) (29 May 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...because they are not allowed to have a pint or two going home from work. They can hardly come out the following morning to go to mass. I have said here before that the Government has the churches closed, along with the Garda stations and many of the schools. Many people ask me why the Government fired my good friend and neighbour, Pat Spillane. He was doing great work on behalf of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of the Minister's Bill, whether it is the young fellow who cannot drive on his own on a provisional licence or those facing the morning checkpoints initiated across all county boundaries and Garda divisions. Whatever type of service is put in place, it will not deal with the issues that people are facing the following morning when they cannot go to work. The social fabric of rural Ireland...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----the churches will be closed soon. I will not say where but gardaí held up a poor man coming from church two weeks ago. After he had struggled to put his poor wife into the car, they asked him to blow into a bag. When he asked whether they thought people were drinking inside the church, they replied that he could have been drinking the previous night. He told them he had not been...

Juvenile Crime: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...serious crimes involving robbing or beating up elderly people. There is a case here of one rape; that is not to be tolerated. We cannot accept those kinds of things. People may criticise the Garda for not prosecuting these crimes, but gardaí are doing their level best. We must go forward; we cannot keep going backwards all the time. Social farming is a great initiative is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of State, Deputy Griffin, and Deputy Heydon promised they would provide plenty of funding for transport, yet there has been no extension of services as promised. What we do have is plenty of Garda checks. It is not the gardaí who are to blame, because direction is coming from on high. This is happening across every county and every Garda division. People are being checked going to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----while criticising the Garda about the number of checkpoints that it organised.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the Government that is attacking democracy. Its members were giving out about the Garda over the number of checks.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was Government members who were giving out about the Garda.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: As a result of the passing of the Bill of the Minister, Deputy Ross, the people of rural Ireland throughout the country are angry and frustrated. As a result, Ministers are complaining about Garda checkpoints. I remind them that it was they and the Minister who voted for this Bill, as did Sinn Féin, while no member of Fianna Fáil voted against the Bill. Here they are now,...

Rural Crime: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the opportunity to talk on this very important motion. It is important for people living in rural areas and perhaps not so rural places, as Deputy MacSharry said in his speech. It is a fact that gardaí were very effective when they lived in the local community. In many instances a house was provided locally for the sergeant to live in. There was one in Kilgarvan until very recent...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting (18 Dec 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is a delay regarding the Garda vetting process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53061/18]