Results 61-80 of 191 for garda speaker:Mark Daly

Seanad: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (9 May 2017)

Mark Daly: ...State has outlined the various sections which all deal with matters of procedure. We welcome the introduction of the third payment option that will ensure a more streamlined and effective use of garda time in not having to appear in court where the courts dismiss charges. If one looks at the 7,500 cases dismissed and calculates the figure for Garda man hours, it is a phenomenal waste of...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Mark Daly: ...is of real concern to the people on the ground is the central issue of the treatment of Sergeant Maurice McCabe, a whistleblower who was doing his job as he saw fit and who raised concerns about An Garda Síochána. He has made allegations that he was targeted with a smear campaign of the worst and most vile type. That is why we welcome a tribunal of inquiry that will get to the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: ...be aware, of 16,000 people disqualified from driving, 500 were subsequently involved in serious accidents, some of which caused death. If electronic monitoring or smart tagging had been used, a member of An Garda Síochána would have been able to determine if the person was in a car at any time and could have had the vehicle stopped. Provided someone else was not driving, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Expressions of Sympathy Following Paris Attacks (18 Nov 2015)

Mark Daly: ...Paris in other European countries, including Ireland. We need to ensure that that does not happen. I propose that at some stage we should have the relevant leaders of various State agencies, the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces in here to outline what they are doing to prevent this. It has been pointed out for many years that there are elements within the communities in...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)

Mark Daly: ...not by the Government to relieve the housing crisis but by private investors. That is the epitome of a lack of joined-up thinking. I also seek a debate on the issue of leave of absence within the Garda. This year, 1,050 gardaí have taken leave of absence from the force. The force strength is 12,000 so almost one in 12 gardaí are on a leave of absence. As Senator Paul Coghlan...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Mark Daly: ...force to have the equipment and the wherewithal needed to enforce the law. We have seen gangs travelling around the country and terrorising communities, yet their members are out on bail and the Garda does not know where they are. If we were to provide for smart policing, it would allow the Garda to know where criminals were at all times. Believe it or not, section 102 of the Criminal...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: ...are not satisfied with the way our Judiciary hands down sentences. A gender quota is needed in our Judiciary. Even though we have women at the highest ranks of our justice system, including the Garda Commissioner, some Supreme Court judges and the Attorney General, our judicial ranks are full of white middle-aged conservative men who hand down appalling sentences, unfortunately based to...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: ...those on tracker mortgages or will they continue a policy of light-touch regulation? I ask the Leader to organise a debate on the matter. It is reported in today's newspapers that in 1973 An Garda Síochána was aware of the abuses of Fr. Brendan Smyth.

Seanad: Broadband, Post Office Network and Energy White Paper: Statements (27 Jan 2015)

Mark Daly: .... They will get some level of coverage but if one wishes to download a file or run an office from home in a rural area, the infrastructure is not in place. Rural Ireland is suffering enough with Garda stations, schools and shops closing and post offices under massive pressure. Not to have broadband, the modern equivalent of roads and electricity, is costing jobs and preventing us from...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Communications Surveillance (17 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: ...place on telecommunications from this State. Like Senator Reilly, I am amazed that there seems to be no concern about another government surveying everything that goes out of this country. If the Garda Síochána or the Irish Defence Forces was doing it, or the Minister's Department was sanctioning the surveillance of Irish citizens - any one citizen or a journalist - there would...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)

Mark Daly: ...Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, stated last week that he intended to leave a legacy. While there is no doubt that he will be remembered, unfortunately, it will be for all the wrong reasons. A new Garda Commissioner was appointed two days ago. Despite being an insider, we have been promised that she will sweep the Garda clean. Somehow or other, the Commissioner saw nothing when so many...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Mark Daly: ...she was a Member of this House, she was fair and equitable and it is great to see that, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of Cuman na mBan, the Minister for Justice and Equality, the acting Garda Commissioner, the Deputy Leader of the Seanad and the Attorney General are women. I think Countess Markievicz is probably smiling down on all of them. As I said, Deputy Fitzgerald is a...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to An Garda Síochána and other persons) Order 2014: Motion (16 Apr 2014)

Mark Daly: We question the terms of reference in getting to the truth of the issue of a Garda Commissioner being asked to consider his position. Who applied the pressure and when?

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

Mark Daly: I support my colleague on the issue because the Attorney General has many more questions to answer than the former Garda Commissioner. She has been sitting at the Cabinet table since 11 November. She has been sitting next to the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Taoiseach who was disturbed by what he had learned last Sunday night week and decided to ask for the Commissioner's head-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

Mark Daly: -----yet she appears to have no questions to answer and the former Garda Commissioner has paid for it with his job.

Seanad: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Feb 2014)

Mark Daly: ...of the Supreme Court rulings on the rights of private property owners. Perhaps he will clarify what is meant by the words "where appropriate". I know that the use of State facilities, such as Garda stations and other facilities, including ESB and Telecom Éireann yards, and even hospitals, are utilised by agreement. The term "compensation where appropriate" is worrying. What does...

Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2013)

Mark Daly: ...with whomever is in possession of the file in question in the Attorney General's office. That engagement could take place in the first week of January and should also include a representative of Garda headquarters. Getting everybody around the same table would allow us to review what has already been done and consider what changes should be introduced on Report Stage. It could all be...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2013)

Mark Daly: ...context of the NAMA and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Transparency Bill that every asset for sale by NAMA would be available on a public list. This has not been done. As a consequence, the Garda Commissioner is to investigate NAMA, which is a serious issue. This matter has been ongoing for two years.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Court Sittings (15 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I will conclude on this point. The overall cost in terms of man hours and time used by the Garda and other professionals has not been taken into account. In fact, there are no savings. It is simply a question of more man hours being tied up sitting in courts far away from the Garda barracks.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Court Sittings (15 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: ...measure. I am afraid the service has not carried out a comprehensive analysis of the cost to the State of this move. It has not considered how much it will cost the State in man-hours given that gardaí who normally give evidence in Kenmare, Cahersiveen, Killorglin or Dingle will now need to travel to Killarney and will have to wait there for their case to be heard. Witnesses,...