Results 1-8 of 8 for garda reserve speaker:Fergus O'Dowd

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister’s comments. In particular, I welcome the reassurance for the whole country that we will have more gardaí, that they will be better looked after in terms of better training and that there will be an additional Garda Reserve presence. I would like to ask a question without going into the detail. I appreciate the position as to why people resign as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (29 Mar 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ..., Martin O'Brien of the Louth and Meath Education and Training Board and Chief Superintendent Christy Mangan are doing fantastic work. An issue has arisen with one of the recommendations. The Garda Commissioner has agreed to review the Garda subdistrict boundary line between Drogheda and Laytown. I acknowledge that is a reserved function of the Garda Commissioner. Would it be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Deployment (14 Nov 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...only members of their own organisation. The fact that ordinary citizens could be killed, bombed, shot or attacked at any time is entirely unacceptable. I very much welcome the response of the gardaí. They are on the streets. All garda leave has been cancelled in County Louth. Regrettably, what has been happening has also necessitated the armed reserve police being on the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Fergus O'Dowd: I hear what Deputy Mac Lochlainn is saying but An Garda Síochána is accountable to the Oireachtas in terms of appearing before this committee. In other words, if there is an issue which is germane to this committee, we make a request to An Garda Síochána to appear before us to discuss it. Indeed, we are arranging to have the Garda Commissioner appear before us shortly....

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (29 May 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: ..., ISIF. This is one of the key elements of the programme for Government and the medium-term economic strategy published last December. The ISIF will take over the assets of the National Pensions Reserve Fund, comprising some €6.9 billion in the discretionary portfolio at the end of the first quarter of the year, to be used for commercial investment in the economy to support...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Properties (14 Mar 2013)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...of Lifford and Rockhill to Donegal County Council. Discussions are ongoing about the possible sale of Clonmel Barracks to South Tipperary County Council and the remaining part of Longford has been reserved by the OPW for the local Garda Síochána. Magee Barracks in Kildare and Columb Barracks in Mullingar remain the property of the Department of Defence. As with previous...

Written Answers — Garda Reserve: Garda Reserve (25 Apr 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 688: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda reserve force will be empowered to work on traffic management duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14853/06]

Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Apr 2005)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...the words it has just mouthed is insincere and hypocritical in the absence of such a commitment and decision from the party and its different organisations, which are all the one. The issue of the Garda is one on which the Government campaigned strongly. In The Irish Times of the election date on www.ireland.com the security correspondent wrote that the significant difference between...