Results 81-100 of 391 for garda speaker:Ivana Bacik

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...amendment, simply offering a definition of a person who is employed in the service of the State. It specifies that a person is employed in the service of the State if he or she is a member of the Garda or the Defence Forces, or a civil servant. I support Senator Ruane's amendment No. 3. On Second Stage I made reference to the need to ensure diversity. Clear respect for diversity is...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...of the person was that he or she was a practising barrister or solicitor. We are proposing to qualify what a person employed in the service of the State should be, that is a member of the Garda Síochána, Defence Forces or a civil servant of the Government or of the State. Senator McDowell and others have spoken about the oddities and anomalies in the definition provisions as...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...of the Attorney General, a "dog's dinner" to date and the reports about the GRECO report raise serious additional concerns about the new measures.Finally, I join with others in wishing the new Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, well. He has a challenging role to fill in terms of ensuring policing reform.

Seanad: Death of Shane O'Farrell: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...following the hit and run are also listed, such as ensuring that criminal justice was effective with regard to the further charges being faced by Mr. Gridziuska before the courts, at which points the Garda failed to raise the breaches of bail and suspended sentences and where answers were not given to judges in courts who were seeking information, and information was not provided. When we...

Seanad: Prohibition of Conversion Therapies Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 May 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...Government amendments. Similarly, it created extra-territorial effect for various criminal offences. It has been an important Bill not just in terms of the practical impact, and there have been Garda investigations under it where the dreadful practice of FGM has come to light in Ireland, but also in that it has provided an important tool for advocacy to the many women's and other groups...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Prosecutions Data (27 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...sexual services. However, I am conscious that a three-year review period is built into the Act and one year has passed. The organisations are seeking to ensure adequate resourcing and training of gardaí to operate the new offence successfully, and my party colleague, Deputy Sherlock, will ask questions in the Dáil about that. My question relates to the measurement of the impact...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Prosecutions Data (27 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...tribute to the Minister's predecessor, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, who played a key role in driving through the legislation. I accept that data gathering mechanisms are operational matters for An Garda Síochána and the office of the DPP but there has been a good deal of concern about how data are gathered by the Garda in recent weeks, particularly homicide data and data on...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jan 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ..., I was too young to know the details of the case at the time. I do remember in school hearing about it and being aware even then of the immensely brutal way in which Ms Hayes was treated by the gardaí.At the time a "heavy gang" was operating within the Garda and there was quite a notorious culture with regard to the extraction of confessions. Mr. Brendan Kennelly at the time...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: .... Women's Aid says that a significant gap in the proposed legislation is a lack of measures to provide for immediate protection in an emergency situation when the courts are not sitting. It points out that while gardaí may arrest a perpetrator, he will be usually granted station bail within a few hours and a woman, often with children, in the absence of immediate protection, will...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...a problem with the current enforcement of domestic violence is that very little is prosecuted under the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act or under criminal law relating to assault.The 2014 Garda Inspectorate report, which was critical of the policing of domestic violence generally, raised concerns about high numbers of call-outs but low numbers of arrests. Therefore, it seems that...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...with her the issues around the serious matters that have come to light in respect of what she knew or did not know when she was the Minister for Justice and Equality about the campaign to smear the Garda whistleblower, Maurice McCabe. The efforts of the Labour Party's Deputy Alan Kelly in the Dáil have tried to ascertain the truth and have led to the situation we have now, where we...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...on this. Their point is that "competent authority", the term used in article 4 of the victims' directive, is broader than a law enforcement authority. It envisages that authorities beyond the Garda or the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission would be covered. It is clearly up to each national jurisdiction to decide what a competent authority would be. It seems that, at the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...to insert the following:“(3)(a) Part 2 ‘Right to Information’ applies to an authorised person, while performing functions referred to in paragraph (b), in the same way that it applies to the Garda Síochána and the Ombudsman Commission; and references in that Part to the Garda Síochána and the Ombudsman Commission shall be construed accordingly. (b)...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (27 Sep 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...entitled to the protection of the Act. That is envisaged by the directive, that it would be broader than simply offences prosecutable through the normal mechanism of criminal offences through the Garda Síochána or the DPP.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...support Senator Ardagh's request that the Minister for Justice and Equality come to the House to discuss the findings of the report of the Committee of Public Accounts into the financial irregularities at the Garda Training College in Templemore. These were very serious findings, particularly in respect of the Garda Commissioner. Many members of the committee, particularly Deputy Kelly,...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Second Stage (13 Jul 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...of contact, which is welcome. Senator Boyhan raised an issue that the Victims' Rights Alliance has raised with many of us, namely, the fact that currently the Bill appears to only apply to the Garda Ombudsman Commission. There are other prosecuting bodies like the Health and Safety Authority. I know this matter has been raised in the Dáil. I ask that other bodies with the...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Olympics. I understand that he is basking in the success of a Rugby World Cup potentially being held here, but I think we might all be concerned and do not want to see a stadium in Stepaside. A Garda station is probably enough.

Seanad: Report on Use of Section 12 of Child Care Act by An Garda Síochána: Statements (31 May 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...this audit. I acknowledge also that what prompted it was, of course, the report of the then Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, in 2014. She had been asked to inquire into the exercise by the Garda of the section 12 power in respect of a number of children in Roma families, a case which, as we are all aware, gave rise to a huge outcry. The ombudsman's report in 2014 called for an...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...securing the support of colleagues for the legislation. I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on policing, now that the detail, terms of reference and membership of the root and branch review of An Garda Síochána have been announced. I understand that while the review group will report within 16 months, it envisages making a series of rolling recommendations. I ask the Leader...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...this Bill. I know Senator Norris has worked on this issue for a long time. I join other Senators in calling for the Minister for Justice and Equality to come to this House for a debate on Garda mismanagement. It is clear from last night's edition of "Prime Time" and the revelations at last week's meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts that there is a discrepancy between the various...