Results 21-40 of 78 for garda speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Health: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Carol Nolan: 1226. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical threats being addressed to staff or Ministers, at any level, working within the Department during the period 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11597/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (20 Mar 2024)

Carol Nolan: 1542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical threats being addressed to staff or Ministers, at any level, working within the Department during the period 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11596/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Carol Nolan: 1574. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical threats being addressed to staff or Ministers, at any level, working within the Department during the period 2020 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11601/24]

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Carol Nolan: ...more emphasis on drug use prevention and avoidance. My counties of Offaly and Laois are profoundly under-resourced when it comes to tackling illegal drugs. As I understand it, there is just one Garda member assigned to the Laois-Offaly divisional drug unit. My constituency's local drugs unit had fewer gardaí assigned to it than any other unit in the country. That is unacceptable...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Carol Nolan: 386. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to address concerns arising from the discontinuation of the pay/pension parity link that will severely impact serving members of An Garda Síochána; if he will consider maintaining this precedent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57163/23]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...against women, and this should be acknowledged. At the same time, however, the Department of Justice, under the Minister's watch, has overseen a complete breakdown in morale among rank-and-file gardaí. The Department has utterly failed to ensure that our immigration and entry procedures in this State are robust. The Minister has become a distraction from the kind of focus the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Nov 2023)

Carol Nolan: 432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the status of An Garda Síochána as an impartial, neutral and apolitical organisation; if she supports the view that all members of An Garda Síochána, including the Garda Commissioner, should refrain from making overtly political statements in line with an instruction issued in 2015 by a former...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...event. This was the result of thugs who were more than willing to hijack public anger to advance their own petty criminality and complete disregard for law and order and the lives and safety of our gardaí and first responders. Much has been said about the political causes of this shameful episode. Some of it has been accurate. There is a lack of resources, and a city has been...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 Nov 2023)

Carol Nolan: 322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address concerns around the increasing rate of resignations within An Garda Síochána, to the extent that this will impact on the capacity of the State to provide safe and effective policing for all communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 Nov 2023)

Carol Nolan: 341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm that on retirement, all gardaí employed since 1995 will be required to apply for jobseekers' payments for nine months; if she is aware of the concern this issue is causing garda members; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49657/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: Page 84 of the programme for Government states: Community safety is at the heart of the ongoing transformation of An Garda Síochána. The...Government will ensure that this will be a key part of our social contract with citizens. An Garda Síochána is enriched by its resilient links in the areas it works with and protects. In Laois-Offaly, there is an ongoing and...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...with states like Saudi Arabia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Again, serious questions present in that regard. Why did it happen that we slipped further down the rankings? The Garda National Immigration Bureau confirmed to me that it has detected 279 illegal immigrants in transport vehicles at Irish harbours since 2018. This number points to the terrifying scenario of...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: I support the motion and commend the Regional Group on bringing it forward. In particular, I support the call to increase the number of gardaí in the State to 16,000 by 2028. In May this year, I was informed that the Laois-Offaly divisional drug unit of An Garda Síochána has the lowest number of Garda members assigned to it compared to every other county and Garda division in...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...for the Bill before the House today know that no harassment is taking place outside GP surgeries or hospitals where abortions are happening. They know that if any harassment were to happen, gardaí already have sufficient powers to deal with such a situation. There is a skyrocketing abortion rate in Ireland and that is a fact. Yet the Government spends its time caving in to the...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...are being used to transport drugs from one location to another in this country. Indeed, as the findings of the national prevalence study show, a minority, or one in eight, children involved in the Garda diversion programme fit the profile, indicating that an estimated 1,000 children across the State could be involved with criminal networks. In terms of the drugs issue, I want to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Electoral Process (20 Apr 2023)

Carol Nolan: 304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints of alleged electoral offences which have been made to An Garda Síochána for each year from 2000 to date; the number of Garda investigations which have been conducted on foot of such complaints; the number of individuals against whom charges were brought; the number of convictions; and if he...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: I raise the need to reopen Garda stations and increase the operational hours of stations in areas in which there has been a growth in population. In my constituency, Laois-Offaly, the number of probationary gardaí has only gone from nine to 16 between 2015 and 2023. Many towns in the constituency, including Kilcormac, Banagher and Kinitty, need to see more operational hours in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form and by county the number of checkpoints conducted by An Garda Síochána to ascertain immigration status in each year from 2018 to date; the number of individuals found to be in breach of immigration requirements at these checkpoints; the actions taken in response to this; and if he...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...draft legislation has not fully embraced the principle of institutional independence that should underpin an ombudsman's office. GSOC is further concerned that this Bill still imposes a degree of ministerial and occasionally Garda involvement in the governance and operations of the police ombudsman. That is not consistent with the independence envisaged in the report of the Commission on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (21 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: 572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Garda checks at Dublin Airport for travel documents of those disembarking from aircraft were discontinued. [8443/23]