Results 121-140 of 251 for garda speaker:Roderic O'Gorman

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (19 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...current arrangements are underpinned by standards and regulations, to support high quality and safe provision. The statutory bodies with primary responsibility for child welfare and protection are Tusla and An Garda Síochána. Tusla assesses all child welfare and protection concerns that are reported to it. This includes historic allegations of abuse made by persons who were...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (4 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...children and families who are referred. Anyone can report a concern about a child to Tusla, and information on how to do so is available on the Tusla website. Reports can also be made to An Garda Síochána (AGS). Children who are in a situation of immediate risk may initially be dealt with by AGS or Tusla but usually both agencies work together in such cases. Where...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (4 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...accommodation. My Department’s role is to provide short-term suitable accommodation. Whilst guidance is provided to staff in relation to the matters the Deputy has raised, staff would call upon An Garda Síochana in relation to issues of public order and prevention or investigation of crime. I trust this information is of assistance.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (4 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...and NGO implementing partners for activation. As the details supplied by the Deputy confirm, vacant pledges are assessed by the local authority. Shared pledges are invited to move forward through the Garda Vetting process which is coordinated by the Red Cross. This process can take some time dependent on the circumstances of the pledge and the requirements of the beneficiary. I can...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ....sexualwellbeing.ie/for-professionals/research/research-r eports/ 15 21.2 Ireland has strong legislation and supports in place to combat hate crime and encourage people to report it. Update the Garda Pulse system to include a “Hate Crime” tag and subcategories including sexual orientation and gender identity. Department of...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...to the registration of non-nationals. These amendments will facilitate the operation of the registration function jointly by the immigration service delivery function of the Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána, and will support online registration processes. The purpose of Part 5, relating to the processing of certain personal data, is to allow for the establishment of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...should be reported to Tusla. Anyone can report a concern about a child to Tusla, and information on how to do so is available on the Tusla website. If a child is at immediate risk or in danger, An Garda Síochána (AGS) should be alerted without delay. Tusla acts urgently on notification of an immediate risk to a child. Children who are in a situation of immediate risk may...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (7 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...safe; action 21 of the strategy aims to ensure that Ireland has robust legislation and supports in place to combat hate crime, and encourages people to report it. The Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána lead on this action, and have introduced several measures to protect LGBTI+ people including changes to the recording of motives on the Garda PULSE system and the...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...burials have occurred, as is the case at the site of the former mother and baby institution at Tuam. These amendments will also represent a strong interference with the jurisdiction of An Garda Síochána and the coroner. Any intervention and investigation where there are questions regarding the lawfulness of a circumstance surrounding a death should clearly come under the remit...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the removal of all restrictions on the jurisdiction of the coroner. Under this legislation, if evidence of violent or unnatural death emerges, the director must notify the coroner and An Garda Síochána immediately and, following an amendment made in the Dáil, the director's post-recovery analysis report must include whether any notification of evidence of violent or...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...manifestly inappropriate burials occurred, as is the case on the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam. These amendments would also represent a strong interference with the jurisdiction of An Garda Síochána and the coroner. Any intervention in an investigation relating to a violent or unnatural death or where there are questions regarding the lawfulness of the...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am not in a position to support these amendments. The criteria set out are all-important factors that need to be considered in deciding whether or not to make an order. If an investigation by An Garda Síochána or a coronial inquiry is taking place, an intervention under this Bill could potentially interfere with the investigation or inquiry. This is precisely why the...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ..., particularly trans members, have shaken the community in Ireland. We are all aware of that. It was good to have an opportunity for the Minister for Justice to outline the extensive measures An Garda Síochána is taking, both at the national level and at a very localised level, to ensure all members of the community feel safe and that we have the very best mechanisms in place...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...significant addition to the general scheme, which responds directly to issues raised during pre-legislative scrutiny about the need to address how people died. A director of an intervention will be required to inform An Garda Síochána and the relevant coroner where evidence emerges of a violent or unnatural death or where remains are not those of a person who died while...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 44: In page 34, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(iv) whether a notification was made under subsection (2) ofsection 36to a member of An Garda Síochána and the coroner referred to in that subsection and, if so, whether the evidence related to subsection (1)(a)or (b)of that section.”.

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...change the underlying objective of the legislation. I disagree with Deputy Whitmore in that I believe these amendments would represent strong interference with the jurisdiction of both An Garda Síochána and the coroner. After the pre-legislative scrutiny, I took significant action to ensure the jurisdiction of the coroner would be maintained. That had been asked of the...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...standards that apply in the context of excavation, recovery, identification and the obligation on the director to attempt to identify the cause of death and inform the relevant bodies, such as An Garda Síochána and the coroner. It also establishes a very important obligation in respect of the identification programme, so we can reunite family members who are still alive with the...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...of the director's functions and to consider whether the description of the post-recovery analysis report could make an explicit reference to the matter of evidence of a violent or unnatural death being shared with An Garda Síochána and the coroner. I have tabled amendment No. 1 in response to the issues the Deputies raised. Amendment No. 1 incorporates an explicit reference to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Action 21 of the Inclusion Strategy aims to ensure that Ireland has robust legislation and supports in place to combat hate crime, and encourages people to report it. The Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána lead on this action, and have introduced several measures to protect LGBTI+ people including changes to the recording of motives on the Garda PULSE system and the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (14 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...an increase across the majority of sources between 2020 and 2021 and although it is difficult to say for certain, there may be particular reasons as to why. For example, an increase in referrals from An Garda Síochána may be due to Gardaí being more attuned to the issues of domestic and gender-based violence leading them to increase the number of referrals made. Increases...