Results 101-120 of 10,620 for speaker:Catherine Murphy in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Can I presume that was agreed at ministerial level?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: On the use of overtime, between 2020 and 2023 almost half a billion euro was used on overtime. There are also additional payments for travel and subsistence. For people who are doing overtime, such as those who are bussed in from outside of Dublin to Dublin for overtime or for special events and things like that, for example, there are probably additional amounts of travel and subsistence....
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: To short-circuit this, I ask the Garda Commissioner to supply in writing details on travel and subsistence. I would also like details in writing on the arrangements in terms of travel and subsistence, for example, when overtime occurs outside the district? Do they differ from Civil Service rates? If so, I ask the Commissioner to supply a note on that to the committee, please. That would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I ask the Commissioner to provide the information in writing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: There was a fairly high-profile case involving a bicycle where a Garda was suspended for three years. I completely understand that An Garda Síochána is a hierarchical organisation and when a complaint is made it must be dealt with. However, in this case it seems like a sledgehammer was used to crack a nut.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: It has.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Some information is in the public domain and this goes to the heart of how resources are deployed. For example, the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation was deployed. If I am not right about this, the Commissioner should feel free to correct it. There is supposed to be a review of suspensions every three months. It affects approximately 100 gardaí. We have seen...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I just find this case to be extraordinary. Often, examples have to be used to get under the bonnet and see what is happening and how resources are being deployed. On the face of it, it seems this is an extraordinary use or misuse of resources. I am not satisfied. A hundred or so people are suspended. Some people are suspended for a very long time, which could be for justifiable...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Deputy Devlin focused on the resignations from the finance side of the organisation, including the executive director. Some other people departed at the same time, including staff at principal officer level. Was there a commonality to the reason they all left roughly at the same time? This is the Committee of Public Accounts so if there was a commonality, are there any concerns about the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Was there a commonality of reason for these events?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Was there a spending plan - I presume there always is - in relation to the visit by President Biden?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Can we have a note on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: With the Garda strained numbers-wise, that will obviously create additional pressure. I want to move on to the figures for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I would be happy to get a note on that as I have only a small amount of speaking time left. I will skip through a number of other issues. The non-Garda staff members of the force are important. I am told that a large number of these staff are seeking to transfer out. I believe the figure is some 1,600 out of 3,000. Would that be correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: The number of people applying for jobs from other parts of the Civil Service does not give rise to the same movement as there is among the civilian staff of An Garda Síochána. Is that not the case? Is it an impediment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: That is movement within the Garda.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: I presume An Garda Síochána has put in place contingency plans because of the very large number of staff involved.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Catherine Murphy: At the same time, the Garda would want to hold onto people. It takes a long time for people to be trained. The Garda wants a degree of stability. That kind of movement would not fill me with confidence about viability in the context of stability within stations, for example.