Results 181-200 of 874 for garda speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...hardship in the case of one or two people who do not have either passports or driving licences. Such individuals were obliged to scurry about in an attempt to obtain some form of identification from An Garda Síochána or whomever which might prove acceptable to the banks. The banks are becoming more difficult to deal with, even when the form of identification presented is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: (Resumed) Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (18 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of the US military or the US authorities. For instance, a lot of the flights involved in rendition were chartered by the CIA. The list has been provided and has been cross-referenced. Would the Garda or Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport personnel have been able to check them when they arrived in Ireland? If so, was that ever done? Is it open to our authorities to undertake...

Opposing Domestic Violence: Statements (18 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...in the first place or, at the very least, to give a societal response when abuse occurs in a family home or a community setting. There is also the question of the provision of specialist training for An Garda Síochána. The Minister made mention of the Garda Inspectorate report findings, which were very stark and made sobering reading. The inspectorate found that rape and...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the NTMABS published a report on the scheme which found that 25 MABS offices supported more than 400 clients in paying debts via the scheme. Examples of debts repaid through the scheme included credit union loans, Garda fines and court fines. In one case three debtors owed up to €20,000. It was also possible to pay private landlords through the scheme. With the discontinuation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Age Identity Cards (2 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the reason the national age card is not accepted as valid ID for many purposes, for example, to sit the driver theory test or as ID for financial institutions despite being authenticated by An Garda Síochána, requiring a birth certificate, passport or GNIB card and a fee of €10, while less secure ID, for example, student ID, is acceptable; and the steps she will take to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Age Identity Cards (2 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 326. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to An Garda Síochána of administering the national age card scheme; the number of cards issued each year since it was launched; and the total income received from applications. [46027/14]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...organisations, and 25 MABS services supported 400 clients in paying debt via the scheme. The scheme is now at an end. Examples of the debts that were being paid but that cannot now be deducted include credit union loans, Garda fines and payments to private debt companies - for example, if people bought furniture on the never-never - as well as money owed to private landlords. I gather at...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...be an immediate flight risk and may carry out the marriage elsewhere, whereas if the registrar forms an opinion he or she should not bother the Department of Justice and Equality but inform the Garda Síochána because it is a criminal act. The couple is sending a form to the registrar and swearing.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...child in one sense, but also with a criminal offence which now is reportable. In such a case, any official, doctor, nurse or registrar would have to report it immediately to social services and An Garda Síochána, and rightly so, but it is in some ways the unknown consequence. I am not saying that we necessarily create a loophole, but we must be aware that sometimes when we try...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 332. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the delay in processing an application for Garda vetting in respect of a person (details supplied); and when they may expect a decision on their case. [40174/14]

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...as the father. It was a scam. Another woman on the ward registered a foreign national as the father so he would have the status of the father of an Irish-born child. That was not the problem. The Garda admitted it was a scam. The Office of the Registrar General accepted the mother's bona fides. It was hugely complicated to change the birth certificate at that stage. The woman had to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (7 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 273. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a Garda vetting application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and when they can expect a decision on their case. [37784/14]

Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom ceist a chur maidir leis an nGarda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014. The House has discussed a number of scandals recently. There are a number of measures that the Minister intends to introduce in the forthcoming Garda Síochána (amendment) Bill. The Cabinet agreed the heads of that Bill on 1 July. Is it intended to put that before the committee in the...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 19:In page 18, to delete lines 1 and 2.This pertains to the proposal by the Minister to second 20 gardaí to the Department of Social Protection to help in the detection of fraud by people who are claiming social welfare benefits. On Committee Stage, I argued that while I was not opposed to the measure, I found it strange that it was included in this legislation...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...people who do not own one or are using it fraudulently. Such provisions are in the Bill but there are already ways in which this can be done. It is just a matter of putting a phone call to An Garda Síochána, and it is fraud if somebody uses another person's identity for such purposes. I have major concerns about lining up public services for privatisation. We even heard with...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...regard to the role of the CAB, we were promised many years ago that it would not only concentrate on high level crime but that its focus would start to filter down. I am trying to imagine what 20 Garda officers being seconded to the Department - rather than social welfare officers being seconded to the CAB - would achieve that the CAB would not have achieved in the first place, which was...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no major issue with this amendment as it is in line with changes in recent years such as multi-agency task forces. I do have an issue with the deletion of subsection 16 on the fact that a Garda must be in uniform. Why is this a requirement? Social welfare inspectors do not wear a uniform so they can act undercover. The same applies to the Revenue Commissioners, though they have a...

Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...change in the justice system. The Government has indicated it will move on some of the measures and hopefully this will be done fast. The issues have hung around for a number of years since the Garda Síochána Act 2005 was passed. The measures will address the future and we must address some of the cases highlighted to date. When dealing with the outworkings of the Morris...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...in this Bill, with the addition of whatever changes are required on Committee Stage, when my party would put forward a number of amendments, then we would be standing still and letting down the public. We would also be letting down those within An Garda Síochána and those who are now, regretfully, out of the force but who brought us to this stage, namely, the whistleblowers, to...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...seo dírithe. Tagann an leithscéal a ghabh sé níos luaithe sé mhí ró-dheireanach. Glacaim leis go bhfuil brón ar an Aire agus go nglacann sé leis go bhfuil sé ag gabháil leithscéil leis an mbeirt garda ar chaitheadh smál orthu toisc an méid atá ráite fúthu thar roinnt míonna. Ach tá an...