Results 81-100 of 255 for garda speaker:Martin Kenny

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Martin Kenny: ..., to ensure that everything is done correctly and properly. There is a barrister or other individual in charge of the investigation to ensure everything is done as it should be. That majority of Garda investigations, even the most serious kinds, are carried out properly, but sometimes we have difficulties. Additional oversight in respect of that needs to be considered. Is that part of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Martin Kenny: Many key findings of the report point to there being no strategic analysis of the risk of corruption or the dangers of corruption that may exist in many aspects of An Garda Síochána's work. Like many parts of our public service, the gardaí's work is based on trust. We have to trust that the person in the organisation will deliver and is doing the best for everyone concerned....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate there has been work and advancement. One area which requires focus is gardaí carrying out work outside of their work as a garda. Sometimes that has compromised them and others around them. The work that they often engage in after retiring from An Garda Síochána also needs to be looked at. There is a network that has developed over the years that certainly needs...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Martin Kenny: 11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to publish the implementation plan for the Garda Síochána Inspectorate report on corruption; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26067/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Martin Kenny: I will ask the Minister about the plans she has to publish the implementation plan for the Garda Síochána Inspectorate report on corruption. I understand that some progress is being made on this but we need to see delivery in this area, as soon as possible.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Crime Prevention (24 May 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...many rural organisations that represent people in rural communities. At the core of this issue, as I said as the outset, is the fear many people who live in isolated areas have. When they go to a Garda station to get a form signed, they cannot find a garda. It gives them little confidence that they will be able to get a garda when they are in real trouble. There are issues in large...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Martin Kenny: .... With some of those professions, we absolutely need their work. We need them to come and help out because we have shortages of those skills. As mentioned earlier, however, the issue of Garda vetting and so on comes into play. Where will they go to get Garda vetting? They cannot go to the authorities in Ukraine, obviously. That will not happen. Therefore, some other system needs to...

Eurojust: Motion (4 May 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...to play in that. Many of the refugees who are coming here have footage on their mobile phones of atrocities they have witnessed. I think the Minister of State mentioned that there was a role for An Garda Síochána, possibly looking to carry out investigations with people who come here. That needs to be looked at as well. We certainly need to gather evidence and feed that in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...this before, my understanding was that they will give notice, if you like, to the divisional headquarters and it would probably end up that they would make an appointment to see a member of An Garda Síochána in a Garda station close to them. Is that the intention here?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...to delete line 12 and substitute the following: "(i) by the substitution of "48 hours" for "7 days",". These amendments deal with the issue of when a sex offender has to report to the Garda station, whether divisional headquarters, local Garda station or whatever. A little more clarity needs to be brought to this and the Minister accepts this. In the modern world we live in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: I accept that it is a limit, and it is not something that people have to push out to the limit. They could contact the local Garda station within hours of arriving in an area if they wish. The sooner it is done, the sooner local gardaí are aware that a person who has a past and who has had a conviction for a very serious sexual offence is living in the area or coming to live in there....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I understand that. Nobody wants cameras everywhere or for the whole country to be covered in them but there is a recognition that they have a key role to play. An Garda Síochána recognises that and so does the public. The slow and difficult roll-out of these schemes across the country has dented public confidence in the commitment of the Government to ensuring this is done. I...

European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...of system. That causes difficulties and problems and we need to acknowledge that and consider it when we examine these types of legislation. I have come across many incidents, some of which members of An Garda Síochána have spoken to me about, where persons have been the subject of European arrest warrants and the arrest warrants have sat on the shelf for years before anyone...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: I understand that but I turn to another side of this, which is the issue of people's trust in An Garda Síochána and trust that they will get a response when they look for one. I think of the incidents of assault we have seen recently. I am conscious of the case of Alanna Quinn Idris in Ballyfermot, which was probably one of the most extreme cases we have seen recently. There have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...a response. They do not feel that the protection is there in their community for them. Going back to examples in rural Ireland, I have had cases in which people have told me they have rung the Garda where they have come home and discovered their house burgled and it has been hours before anybody arrived because the Garda was so busy, there were only three patrol cars in the area, all of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: 102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for when the Garda Reserve will reopen for recruitment of new volunteer members given recruitment is currently under way in all statutory and non-statutory voluntary emergency services with the exception of the Garda Reserve. [8795/22]

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: .... While this legislation is welcome, I am very doubtful that it will change one thing in this State because there is no will among the senior people in any of the Departments to change it. A garda told me once that he reported a particular situation to a chief superintendent. The chief superintendent called him to one side and said: "Don't mess with city hall." That was it. He...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (16 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: 197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide information on cost breakdown and tender process in relation to the new uniform for members of An Garda Síochána. [8786/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (15 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...documentaries. He said that in all of those cases he was convince from talking to the families that there was a clear trend in all of them of the same modus operandibeing used by the same group of gardaí who continued to go into places and very often decided who the guilty party was and then made the evidence fit. That is the difficulty we have here. It is the way this was done and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses today for all their submissions. First, I know Fórsa's primary issue is around the change of the status of civilian staff working in Garda stations throughout the country and what that will do. I thank Fórsa very much. We met a couple of months ago with regard to this issue. We recognise it is a serious problem that really changes the status of so many...