Results 41-60 of 81 for garda speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...issue for a small baby, but for the parents it is also a human rights issue and certainly my experience of how a disability was contextualised was negative. A number of services, for example, An Garda Síochána, are being encouraged to undertake training on the person-centred, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, idea of people with different...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Chairman. I have two quick questions. The first is a question I ask of An Garda Síochána a lot. I am interested in the key performance indicators, KPIs, and understand an ambulance service will always look at its indicators based on how may calls it takes and how quick it is. However, I am interested in whether the service, bearing in mind it is the first point of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...PEA is that the facilities are cheaper to run. They do not necessarily have the kind of trauma-aligned care we would like to see for homelessness accommodation. We discussed in 2020 the issue of Garda vetting, which I would like to revisit, but is there any information about developing the tender process for NGOs in providing emergency care?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: As part of the service level agreement, was there a requirement that every staff member be Garda vetted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...2020 at a meeting of this committee, I believe. It would seem to me that trauma-supported or trauma-led care of people in homelessness is quite a complex issue. A bare minimum would be to include Garda vetting as part of a service level agreement when entering into a contract with a private provider. We are now two years into that discussion. Mr. Doyle has said he does not have his...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 1337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí stationed at the Bridewell Garda station and Cabra Garda station, respectively; the comparable figures for each station in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 1348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of her plans to establish the necessary mechanism to allow relevant information from An Garda Síochána be shared with Operation Denton; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30393/22]

Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...seek help. Both groups talked about working with other institutions or service providers. I am interested in the level of communication, particularly between the groups and institutions like the Garda. Perhaps we could start with the Garda but I also want to move on to the accident and emergency services issue. I do not know who wants to take that. I am interested in the level of...

Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...the issue of debt and drug-related intimidation. I am trying to get a sense from both groups how much of their interaction with people is based on the extent to which they are in contact with the Garda. Someone said to me recently, when talking about addiction and addiction services, that one of the issues around diversion programmes is that often the point when one interacts with the...

Joint Committee On Health: Addiction Services: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to get in a data question, which is one I very often ask the HSE, the Garda or any forum to do with justice. Do the two organisations feel they have access to data about what is really happening? Is anyone collecting data from our guests' organisations about what is happening? Who is collecting the data and how complex are those data? It is important in health-led approaches that we...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...I am making is that for somebody like me coming from the outside and looking at a large increase from 2020 to 2021, I am trying to understand if that is something to do with the relationship of An Garda Síochána with the community or is there some sort of operational issue here? Without knowing how many complaints were actioned and then upheld, or resulted in a prosecution, it...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Ms Hall for that answer. I am now going to move onto another topic. At the end of February 2022, there were 227 sworn members of An Garda Síochána at the rank of superintendent or higher. Of these, 38 were women while 189 of their counterparts were male. The Policing Authority is responsible for carrying out selection competitions for the senior ranks of An Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...influential in both decision-making and policy-making. It would be helpful for the authority to set out what it considers when it sets annual policing priorities and performance targets for An Garda Síochána. We will also bring data collection into that discussion. Looking at the information before us, there has already been consideration of quantitative reviews or KPIs that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...am wondering what the process is. Who decides what we measure? Is there a process in the Policing Authority, for example, where there is a new undertaking? I will give an example. Last year An Garda Síochána formally established the organised prostitution unit. Sex work in general is a matter that I am very interested in. It would be interesting to have information...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...communities and double-checking that work is being implemented as envisaged. I know, in the short time in which the authority has operated, there has been a discussion around the relationship with Garda representatives. How is that relationship right now? Does that kind of work pose issues? How is that working out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...her leeway. We spoke to GSOC this morning about the new legislation coming through and the expansion of some of its remit. One of the areas of expansion is the inclusion of the laypeople and non-Garda people who work in Garda stations. Will that change the way the Policing Authority operates, or will it have any impact on the work it does?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...Committee of Public Accounts before. The question was whether the Department or anybody related to it required under the SLAs that staff members in privately provided emergency accommodation be Garda vetted.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is Ms Timmons' position that she has no data on compliance regarding whether people providing homeless services are Garda vetted?

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I take that point, although considering how long we have been waiting for the report on the Tánaiste I am not sure I believe the Garda will be looking at dates on particular forms. I wish to discuss the use of the phrase "chemical restraint". The phrase "chemical restraint" may suggest perhaps not malicious intent but that it is not about the best care of the patient but about the...