Results 61-80 of 99 for garda speaker:Gerry Horkan

Seanad: Gambling Legislation: Motion (27 Feb 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...regulation is not left lagging behind by rigid fixed rules. The Bill also aims to curb money laundering and criminality that may use the gambling sector with robust checks and powers with respect to the Garda and international bodies. Ireland has the third highest per capitarate of gambling losses in the world. We lose approximately €470 per adult on different forms of gambling...

Seanad: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...of claims made against them before a settlement has been reached has stalled and it looks like the Government is rolling over on this point also. A mechanism to set up the anti-fraud unit within An Garda Síochána was to be approved by the third quarter of 2017. This has yet to be achieved. I acknowledge the Minister of State's comment at the end of his contribution, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Gerry Horkan: What is the position regarding the Garda fraud unit? When the Minister of State attended an earlier meeting of this committee, he said he did not want gardaí being taken away from an investigation into real crime to deal with fraud. We have established that fraud is real crime. I am not saying that we should stop members of the Garda investigating gangland murders and deploy them to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Where are we with the Garda fraud unit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Can the Minister of State ask the Garda Commissioner to do this work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Will the Minister of State ask the Garda Commissioner to do this work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Gerry Horkan: When is the Minister of State likely to discuss the matter with the Garda Commissioner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Has the Minister of State received any indication from the Garda Commissioner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I accept that the Garda Commissioner is only newly appointed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Gerry Horkan: In order for sections 25 and 26 to be used, who can bring the matter forward? Is it the Garda or insurance companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships - Liquidation of the Carillion Group: National Development Finance Agency and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (26 Jul 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...contractor fails. It is not right that the system allows Carillion and other main contractors to obtain money from the State and then let down the subcontractors who are doing work on schools, Garda stations, courts and universities, from which all of us will benefit. I know of examples of subcontractors being let down to a greater or lesser extent because extras were added on or...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Gerry Horkan: -----but the Minister seems to be spending far more time on judicial appointments and other matters, including Garda stations, than he is on his own brief of transport. Cycling is a positive activity for all of us. I want to acknowledge the death at the weekend of Shane Duggan, a 16 year old from Straffan. We must make our cycling infrastructure safer and spend more money on it. That...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Gerry Horkan: We celebrated 60 years of UN peacekeeping at the weekend and acknowledged and remembered the 85 members of the armed forces and one Garda who lost their lives on UN peacekeeping service on behalf of Ireland. It was a lovely ceremony in Dublin Castle. Indeed, there were two very nice ceremonies in Dublin Castle on Sunday. The other ceremony related to the decriminalisation of homosexuality....

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...more widely and fairly shared, but we must ensure there is enough cybersecurity. I have spoken on this previously on behalf of my colleague, Senator Clifford-Lee, in terms of cybersecurity in the Garda Síochána. We must ensure there are no issues with cybersecurity. That security must be ramped up to ensure the citizens' data are intact in the various Departments and are...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...and shops and staging accidents. Only for the CCTV footage there would have been payouts in these cases. In many cases these incidents involve a family industry and these people are known to the Garda for staging fraud. We do not, however, have a fraud unit within An Garda Síochána to look at these cases. The costs of insurance working group recommended such a measure and I...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Senator Conway-Walsh started it. It is important to have a debate on the issue of insurance fraud and on whether or not An Garda Síochána should be resourced to tackle it. The Minister was before the committee some weeks ago and said that gardaí were to be diverted away from crime into fraud. Fraud is a crime, however, and the exaggeration and staging of claims are all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...of State's officials got a chance to watch that meeting, and I presume he was doing other things. Point No. 8 of their submission states:The CIWG motor insurance reports promised a dedicated Garda unit to focus exclusively on the investigation of insurance fraud. We want the unit established as a matter of urgency. [That is their request.] The Minister tells us that there is not enough...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: What is the Minister of State's opinion? Does he think it should be set up or would he be concerned that by setting it up, it would be taking resources away from other Garda priorities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Who asks the Garda Commissioner to do this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: In the absence of a Garda Commissioner being appointed would it not be perfectly reasonable for the Minister for Justice and Equality to ask the acting Garda Commissioner?