Results 61-80 of 110 for garda speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

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

Danny Healy-Rae: 269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the current Garda vetting process will be reviewed under which multiple applications are needed when working with groups, clubs or employers in the same area or field; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53098/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...do at that stage. The law provides for a situation where a health care professional, a doctor or someone else finds out about something like this, and he or she is bound by the law to notify An Garda Síochána that such a thing has happened. The matter is dealt with professionally and legally after that, and there are rules and regulations that protect the vulnerable or abused...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...are going to do to help people in rural Ireland to get around. They do not have the train, taxi or DART services that are available here. There can be no checkpoints on roads around here. If a garda was to stand there for five minutes, there would be a five-mile tailback. It is very easy to have a checkpoint at a crossroads when people are going to mass on a Sunday morning, but I do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...; the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan; or the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross? People are being checked in going to and coming from mass. I am not blaming An Garda Síochána or individual superintendents because it is occurring across divisions and county boundaries. Does the Minister, Deputy Ross, now also want to close churches, as...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...stop people cutting turf in their own places where they have traditionally cut it over the years. That is how my grandmother survived and that is how she reared my father and all the rest of them by selling a bit of turf to the local garda or whoever it was. They did not hurt the country or the world one little bit. With regard to the people who are still doing it, it was grand to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...vehicles travelling those roads in the coming weeks. It is wrong to say that some bus contractors are in some way cowboy operators. I have to point out that, along with the departmental test, the Garda has to check public service vehicles. Bus Éireann also employs Freight Transport Association, FTA, at least in Kerry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...I was listening to them on the monitor in my office and I agree with everything they have said. There has been an increase in rural crime and where I come from we all agree that the closure of Garda stations, lack of squad cars and the lack of visibility of and availability of the local gardaí has led to this. That is fine where we have it and it is not fine where we do not have it...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to Emma and many other women like her. If somebody's life was neglected or lost like this in any other system, somebody would be brought to account. It is time to call in the special branches of the Garda to see what happened and get a fair assessment. We must bring somebody to account for what happened in these sad cases. It is sad to think other women are out there with a death...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...first thing the operator has to get. Is it correct that the bus operator and the driver have to do CPC training for one day every year? That is part of the regime. Many contractors have an issue with Garda vetting. It is proper and right that the bus driver has to be Garda vetted, but if, say, Deputy Eamon Scanlon's bus driver, who has been Garda vetted by him and is working for Bus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...promise it made in that regard, and it has happened in every parish and county in Ireland. That is very unfair because there are so many services being taken from parishes, including post offices, Garda stations and so on. These people will have to pay someone or take their children to school themselves. That is what happening. The Department went back on its promise. I am not blaming...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. The Minister is saying communities should connect with the Garda, but that is impossible because of the closure of Garda stations in rural areas. There is no Garda station in Sneem and it is 35 minutes before a garda lands from Kenmare and almost an hour before a garda land from Killarney when gardaí based in Kenmare are out. Communities do not have the same level of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda stations in Lauragh and Sneem, County Kerry, will reopen on a full-time basis. [29825/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ..., Dr. Bryan MacMahon and others. Both of their names are synonymous with Listowel and they have done great work for Listowel and Kerry, of which we are very proud. I heard the witnesses mention Garda vetting. I know about the situation because I own a school bus. If my driver takes a day off I cannot borrow a bus driver from another local contractor, for example, without him or her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The current scheme of Garda vetting is so ridiculous that this country is tied up in knots. One may have someone who works in a nursing home in Kenmare but he or she cannot work in a nursing home in Kilgarvan without being Garda vetted again. That proves that it is not just volunteers for arts festivals that are affected. I have raised the issue of Garda vetting with the Taoiseach in the...

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...before the judge and jailed right away. They should get no other chance as that is what they deserve. They do not appreciate what is right and wrong and they should be made to understand it. Garda stations have been closed in rural Ireland and I call on the Minister to reopen them, particularly as they had a positive effect in the past. They were there since the foundation of the...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...up immediately, I do not see anything wrong with that. What is happening is ridiculous. Drugs and drug lords are causing mayhem in every part of the country. I have said here previously that the Garda needs many more resources to deal with the drugs problem. Drugs are so available now it is like going into a sweet shop; one can get them anywhere. How is that happening? The Minister...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: A week ago this evening, in Cahersiveen, more than 500 people attended a meeting on the same issue, looking for their Garda station to be manned and open 24 hours a day and looking for more gardaí to address anti-social behaviour, which recently culminated in a murder in their town. The Taoiseach said in the programme for Government that he would open six new Garda stations. I am...

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too ask the Government to bring some common sense to our Garda vetting regime. Some might say I have a conflict of interest because I have an old bus and my drivers have to comply with Garda vetting guidelines. The escort on a bus might be vetted by the Garda to mind the children on the bus but he or she must be vetted again if he or she wants to drive the bus. Transport services are...

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is absolutely ridiculous. If a person has been vetted by the Garda once, it should last for five years at least, or until the need arises to vet him or her again.

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...or whether those in other countries can still evade our laws and operate criminal rackets from afar. This is important. There are drugs coming in around our shores. We must congratulate the Garda on the great work done and for much of the apprehending of people caught bringing drugs. People are serving time in many cases. However, the problem remains because of the people who put...