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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Murphy: 344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reserve gardaí that are suspended; the duration of their suspension including the year in which it commenced; the maximum duration that a reserve member of An Garda Síochána can be suspended for; if the number of reserve gardaí that have resigned their position; and the number that have been...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...Ireland’s ongoing contribution to international peace and security and I thank our Defence Forces for their professionalism and commitment to their overseas roles. At home, the funding provision allows the Defence Forces to continue to provide essential support for An Garda Síochána, as requested, across various roles such as explosive ordnance disposal call-outs, Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Fines Administration (22 Feb 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency, is responsible for the compilation and publication of all crime statistics. The CSO produces these statistics using data recorded on An Garda Síochána’s PULSE system and makes regular releases under reservation in relation to various crime statistics. The CSO also continues to work with An Garda...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Helen McEntee: At a time when we celebrate the centenary of service by the members and staff of An Garda Síochána, I am pleased to say that the Government is in a position to continue to increase the number of gardaí on our streets. A sign of that was seen last week with the new recruitment competition that was launched by An Garda Síochána through the Public Appointments Service....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this answer

Martin Kenny: 102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for when the Garda Reserve will reopen for recruitment of new volunteer members given recruitment is currently under way in all statutory and non-statutory voluntary emergency services with the exception of the Garda Reserve. [8795/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Feb 2022)

Helen McEntee: At this time when we celebrate a centenary of service by the members and staff of An Garda Síochána, I am very pleased that the Government is in a position to continue to increase the number of Gardaí on our streets and last week a new recruitment competition was launched by An Garda Síochána through the Public Appointments Service. Budget 2022 includes an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (17 Feb 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency, is responsible for the compilation and publication of all crime statistics.  The CSO produces these statistics using data recorded on An Garda Síochána’s PULSE system and makes regular releases under reservation in relation to various crime statistics.  The CSO also continues to work with An Garda...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...during the founding years, the Emergency period and the Cold War, members of the Defence Forces prepared for and met any eventuality presented to them by way of domestic or foreign threats. In partnership with An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces have, time and again, protected the State from internal threats and, in more recent decades, the aid to civil power relationship has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Feb 2022)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible under the law for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including by arranging for the recruitment, training and appointment of its members. As Minister, I have no direct role in the matter. I am very pleased that, as we celebrate 100 years of service from An Garda Síochána, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Ms Antoinette Cunningham: Thank you, Chair. I also thank the committee members for the opportunity to present to it this afternoon. The AGSI represents almost 2,500 members of middle ranking gardaí, sergeants and inspectors, within the Garda organisation. Most of us know that the policing, security and community safety Bill, has its genesis in the Commission on the Future of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 – Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 – Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Helen McEntee: The intention this year is to have 800 new recruits. We have allocated additional funding. More than €2 billion is being allocated directly to An Garda Síochána. Consequent to that, 800 new recruits will come out of Templemore. The campaign should open in the next two to three weeks. There will be a significant campaign to try to open up recruitment to as many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (3 Feb 2022)

...procedures under which these increasingly degrading monuments will be properly safeguarded and cared for? Since 2007, nine prosecutions have been taken by the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, on the recommendation of An Garda Síochána for alleged offences under the National Monuments Act 1930 and the National Monuments (Amendment) Acts 1954 to 2004. The proposed Bill...

Seanad: Search and Rescue Policy: Motion (2 Feb 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerard Craughwell: ...We need to remember that this is a notional commercial operator without any ties to or facilities in this country. The optimal configuration for SAR in Ireland is four operational bases with five helicopters, including one in reserve. Given this requirement, why did the business case require the Air Corps to provide three helicopters to support its single base at Baldonnel? This would...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...OPW programme, estate management, continues to fund the design, upkeep and modernisation of a significant number of properties within the State’s property portfolio. These include heritage sites, Civil Service office accommodation for all Departments, An Garda Síochána and many State agencies. In all, the OPW manages more than 2,500 properties on behalf of the State,...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Bunriachtanais Teanga sa Gharda Síochána: Plé (2 Feb 2022)

..., that have been taken and I have outlined the development of the strategy which will be the cornerstone of how we progress, develop and achieve our statutory obligations on the proficiency of all Garda members and those who are serving in the Gaeltacht areas. I would point to that as one of the key pieces of work that has been achieved since the most recent visit of the Commissioner...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2022)

Michael McDowell: ...with me. The state of the Defence Forces in Ireland has been run down deliberately and systematically by Government after Government to the point where they are no longer fit for purpose. The Reserve Defence Forces, formerly Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil, FCÁ, has effectively been contracted to nothing. It is a shadow of its former self, just as the Garda Reserve was simply...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (27 Jan 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael McDowell: I welcome the Minister. I fully support this legislation. The need for An Garda Síochána to modernise its structures is beyond contradiction. I recall that when I occupied the current Minister's office I introduced the Garda Síochána Act 2005 as part of the reorganisation of An Garda Síochána. However, we knew at that time it was very definitely only the...

Seanad: Local Government (Surveillance Powers in Relation to Certain Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Jan 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State. I understand the motivations of the proposer and seconder of this Bill, but I have reservations about it. As I understand it, the Bill seeks "to empower local authorities to authorise the installation and operation of surveillance devices for the purposes of deterring, preventing, detecting and prosecuting certain offences, to provide for exchange of certain...

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...is an issue that effects every socioeconomic group in the country. It is an abuse that can manifest itself in many different ways, be it through physical violence or coercive control, and is not reserved for any particular age category. In 20% of detected sexual violence incidents, both the victims and the offenders are under 18 years of age. Unfortunately, we are not witnessing the...