Results 101-120 of 391 for garda speaker:Ivana Bacik

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...Oireachtas, we could repeal the 2009 provision by taking out the statutory offence and thereby removing the crazy situation whereby someone like Stephen Fry was apparently facing interview by the Garda for his comments.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...to have attended the conference. It is the norm for the Minister with responsibility for justice to attend. There has been a good deal of adverse commentary from among the middle management ranks of the Garda as a result of this. Tomorrow at 11 a.m. on Kildare Street outside Leinster House we will have an Oireachtas all-party cyclists' group convening for a photo opportunity. All...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...the Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016. This is a late change to the schedule and I am concerned that we were not given notice of it. I welcome the announcement of a root-and-branch review of the Garda in light of the very disturbing reports on discrepancies in policing figures, including the 1 million breath tests that did not take place. That matter was debated in this House and...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (9 Mar 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...permitting the neglect of children under the Children Act 2001 so there are other issues beyond issues relating to the commission of investigation. Other agencies should also be involved, notably, An Garda Síochána. Finally, there is a broader context here - not just about the treatment of whistleblowers and the appalling abuse of children and young adults with disabilities...

Seanad: Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Feb 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...going missing. Others have quoted figures on that. Certainly, when we were compiling our report, we noted that in the previous five years there had been 40,000 reports of missing persons to An Garda Síochána, the vast majority of which, happily, as we acknowledged, were resolved and persons were found safe and well within 24 hours. Nonetheless, there are a small but...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...policing that Maurice McCabe exposed through his whistleblowing. I ask the Leader for a debate on policing issues and in particular on the oversight mechanisms that have now been established within An Garda Síochána, largely as a result of the brave actions of whistleblowers such as Maurice McCabe. When I was a member of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, we...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the announcement that the Government is establishing a commission of inquiry into the allegations of a campaign within the Garda to discredit whistleblowers within the force. I know that announcement has been made following a Cabinet meeting today. It is in keeping with the recommendation made by Mr. Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill in his inquiry earlier last year. I call on the...

Seanad: Public Bodies Review Agency Bill 2016: Second Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...Science Foundation Ireland, to the Parole Board to Fáilte Ireland to Irish Water, which as we know is a task in itself and in which Senator Ó Céidigh has a role, to the Irish Film Board, the Charities Regulator and An Garda Síochána. We already have the Garda Inspectorate. Coming from my criminal justice background, I would say the Garda Inspectorate has a...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Female Genital Mutilation (26 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...is responding to this issue. I raised it with her at the UNFPA launch last Friday. In light of recent media reports that an act of female genital mutilation, FGM, was reported to the HSE and the Garda in September, will the Minister of State say how many cases of FGM have been reported to the Garda since the enactment of the Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2012? What...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Female Genital Mutilation (26 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...are reported to ensure we can identify how many instances of FGM are reported in any one year. I ask the Minister of State to follow up the matter with the Central Statistics Office and the Garda and I will do so as well. It is unacceptable that we do not know how many cases of FGM there are and that we are reliant on media reports. Second, the funding the Minister of State pointed out...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: .... We need to have the Minister in again given the grave crisis we see in policing, not only with the concerns about whistleblowers raised in this and the other House, but the imminent withdrawal of labour by gardaí. As I said in the debate with the Minister last week, there is a way forward potentially through taking note of what the European Court of Human Rights has said on the...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments and Threatened Industrial Action by An Garda Síochána: Statements (12 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...aware we will have a debate on judicial independence in the House next week, at the behest of Senators Boyhan and McDowell, and we will be able to say more about that. Turning to the issue of the proposed strike by gardaí, this is the second cause of crisis in policing at present. We read in recent weeks the revelations about the treatment of whistleblowers in the force and we await...

Seanad: European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training: Motion (19 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...element of the major reforms of 2005. For all of the reasons that I have cited, I support this measure. It underlines the benefits of training and development, which were identified in the Garda Síochána Modernisation and Renewal Programme 2016-2021 as key requirements for developing a modern and efficient police service. As the former Chairman of the justice committee, the...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...bureau officer concerned as soon as he or she has enough evidence to make such an application”. As I said previously, it is similar to the power of detention under the Criminal Justice Act 1984 where the Garda is obliged to release or charge somebody once it has sufficient evidence one way or another, without waiting necessarily for the expiry of the maximum period of detention for...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...-fencing of any proceeds or money confiscated towards disadvantaged communities. The Minister said she would be seeking Cabinet approval today for new legislation allowing increased interception powers for gardaí to intercept e-mails, social media accounts and so on. She has spoken today of the further motion that will be brought before this and the other House concerning reducing...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...in the south east which occurred over a prolonged period of time. I know every colleague shares my concern about that. I note reports were carried out, but these have not yet been published. Garda investigations are ongoing. There may well be evidence that points towards an offence of reckless endangerment, something about which we need to be mindful in any debates on this issue. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)

Ivana Bacik: He also noted that Fianna Fáil closed more Garda stations and rural post offices than this Government.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (21 Jan 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...the new offence in section 7A. That is the provision I specifically sought on Committee Stage. I am glad to see that included as it will make the legislation clearly workable and enforceable by the Garda. On Committee Stage I expressed a concern about an amendment made to insert section 21 which will make it an offence to fail to comply with a Garda direction where a person is offering...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...are broader than the issue of access by GSOC to journalists' phone records. I note the revelations in The Irish Timestoday that 62,000 requests or applications were made, mostly by members of the Garda, for access to phone and Internet data over five years to the end of 2012, so clearly there is a bigger issue here.The impact of the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 needs to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...the immense success of the Irish film industry has been achieved in spite of these funding cuts.However, I support the film board's calls for a review of those cuts. I support also calls for a debate on the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission's powers of phone surveillance. Serious issues have been raised in respect of the apparent surveillance of journalists' phones without any...