Results 21-40 of 99 for garda speaker:Gerry Horkan

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...continually acting up. I refer to people who go into town to pickpocket or cause trouble for the sheer fun of it from their perspective. I was at a civic reception last night celebrating 100 years of the Garda Síochána in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. Gardaí work under exceptionally difficult circumstances. We have seen the awful incidents in Ballyfermot, Cherry Orchard...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Young Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Discussion (30 Sep 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...who are not registered to vote. How do you engage? It is a challenge. The witnesses are here and engaged but in the South of Ireland we have recently seen young people who should not be driving at all ramming Garda cars and not participating or getting involved with organisations like those here today. How do you get those people engaged? How do you get people who are very comfortable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Gerry Horkan: This is something I want to come in on. What is the make-up of the Taxi Advisory Committee? Is it the Garda, the county council and so on?

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...to specific cases and I know there is a balance between data protection, the GDPR and freedom of information but there is a higher purpose, as Senator Mullen alluded to, in terms of allowing our gardaí to get evidence that exists and allowing that evidence to be used to prosecute people and for these people to go in front of a judge and jury and be convicted. Of course, nobody wants...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...not present earlier, I have read all of their opening statements. I thank them all for being here so late on a Thursday evening. I attended a nice event this morning to celebrate 100 years of the Garda. It was hosted in, of all places, the famous Stepaside Garda station and the former Minister for Transport even turned up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...urine tests and blood tests is relatively low in light of the size of our population and the number of vehicles on the road. That said, the positivity rate is quite high. This is probably because gardaí are only testing the people they are suspicious of in the first place. Do we need more of a Garda presence? The Chairman generally takes the train. In the context of speed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...in incidents, fatal or otherwise? Generally, motorways are probably the safest roads we have per percentage of the volume travelled and the volume of people on the road, etc. However, has the Garda seen a reduction in the number of incidents since the cameras on particular stretch went live?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: All kinds of things turned up during Covid. The Garda discovered all kinds of nefarious activity that it would not normally find because the volume of traffic was low. Has the Garda seen a difference in behaviour coming out of Covid and behaviour pre Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: Do the statistics drive the detection strategy? Does the Garda locate more checkpoints in areas that have more activity in order to improve compliance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...a seat belt and every car is equipped with seat belts for every seat. I certainly never sit in a car even as a passenger without wearing a seat belt, even if I am seated in the back. Does the Garda Síochána still encounter drivers who are not wearing a seat belt and are involved in collisions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: From the Garda point of view, is it illegal to drive with an out-of-date NCT?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: What are the penalties being enforced? If a garda at a checkpoint finds an out-of-date NCT, what happens next?

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jun 2022)

Gerry Horkan: As somebody whose grandfather was a garda for almost all of his career a long time ago, I echo those comments. It is important the message go out from this House that we fully support our gardaí in everything they do in trying to keep our streets and communities safe. There is an element of parts of urban areas, in particular, that are not quite no-go zones but are heading in that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Apr 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...Dublin Airport on Monday to understand the challenges it is going through. It has approximately 600 security staff and needs to increase that to approximately 900. The biggest problem it is having is Garda vetting and what is called enhanced background checks, which involves referring back to another jurisdiction if people have lived out of the State for more than six months. The...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Mar 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...notes, given he has already very well articulated the purpose of this Bill. As a party, Fianna Fáil, the party of Government, supports this Government legislation which is effectively bringing Garda compensation claims within the remit of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. As a former member of the finance committee, which often discussed the cost of insurance, I know...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State for his opening remarks and for bringing this Bill so speedily to the House. When the Garda became aware of this issue, it was unfortunate that the way it implemented the initial process was to go and tell publicans that they may not have been legally entitled to do what they were doing. It was particularly unfortunate, as other Members have said, that this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2021)

Gerry Horkan: ...very concerned that certain parts of Dublin city are getting out of control at particular times of the day and on certain days of the week. They are very concerned about the lack of resources and gardaí available to deal with organised groups who come into town to cause trouble and to annoy people who are dining, shopping or drinking outdoors. People are just getting back to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2021)

Gerry Horkan: I want to express my sympathies to the poor cyclist who was injured last night in a hit-and-run incident. That was the second hit-and-run in that particular area. I call on the Garda Commissioner to pursue what is happening in that area and to investigate it. Cars are being abandoned after accidents. That somebody was hit is bad enough. To do a hit and run and leave a person by the side...

Seanad: An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála eile ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (20 Mar 2020)

Gerry Horkan: ...of the struggles and hardships through which people are being put. This legislation is important and Fianna Fáil is supporting it. We must all work together in solidarity. Where people are not behaving correctly, we need the Garda public order unit, or whoever it needs to be, to intervene if there are large gatherings of people, house parties and social gatherings that completely...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...for a debate on cycling previously and we need to make sure that when we design cycling infrastructure we do not design it in such a way that people are vulnerable to being attacked. We talk about Garda resources, but equally we cannot have a garda on every stretch of cycle lane.