Are all gardaí Garda vetted?
TDs / Pearse Doherty
Pearse Doherty
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Answer the question.
Are they Garda vetted?
Why do you not answer the question, if you may?
Are they vetted?
Are they all vetted?
I move amendment No. 1:
To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:
"notes the draft Council Decision authorising enhanced cooperation on the establishment of a Loan for Ukraine, a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 21st January, 2026;
recognises that:
— the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was an act of aggression, which was motivated by expansion and imper…
The Bill before us makes a number of important changes agus is maith an rud go bhfuil sé sin ag tarlú. Táimid ag caint sa Bhille seo ar pháistí atá i ndeacracht, go leor acu páistí atá gan dídean, agus an dóigh atá Tusla ag caitheamh leo. Mar atá ráite ag mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta Kerrane, tá píosaí den reachtaíocht seo a chaithfí moill a chur orthu, go háirithe mír 21 mar a luaigh sí, ach tá rudaí eile fosta. Rin…
D'admhaigh cathaoirleach Bhord Bia go mbíonn a chomhlacht ag iompórtáil feola ón Bhrasaíl do mhargadh na hÉireann. Tá dualgas curtha ar fheirmeoirí cloí le caighdeáin timpeallachta, leasa agus rialacha atá ag dul in airde i gcónaí. Ag an am céanna, áfach, tá an cathaoirleach ar Bhord Bia, foras Stáit atá freagrach as bia, feoil agus feirmeoireacht na hÉireann a chur chun cinn, anois ceangailte le hiompórtáil feola ó …
The legislation is very clear. The Minister has the power to remove the chair. Indeed, the board on its own does not have that power. It needs the consent of the Minister. There are a number of facts that are undisputable.
The chair of Bord Bia, the State agency responsible for promoting Irish food at the highest international standards, is also the director of a company that is importing Brazilian beef. Another fac…
Do you have confidence in the chair?
Do you have confidence in the chair?
Do as I say, not as I do.
Protect your own. Do as I say, not as I do.
It is not about the organisation.
So, is Brazilian beef okay?
This debate is happening in parallel with the World Economic Forum - a get-together where the political elite meet with billionaires in the Swiss Alps. Far removed from the lives of ordinary people, they meet to discuss the world's problems. Billionaires solving the world's problems is like Jack the Ripper trying to solve crime.
Trump, another billionaire, spoke at Davos earlier today. Let us be clear: the US has be…
We are told time and time again by this Government that water services have been improving, that everything is now under control and that Uisce Éireann is fit for purpose. In fact, Uisce Éireann is so content with the job it is doing that it gave €21,000 in bonuses for good performances, no less, in 2024 to hundreds of its highest paid executives, some already earning over €200,000 a year. If Uisce Éireann or indeed …
The Department of the Taoiseach's annual report talks about values of treating the public fairly and promptly. I question whether the Government has treated the survivors of industrial and reformatory schools who were on hunger strike outside the gates of Leinster House fairly and indeed promptly because they are very angry at the lack of progress on the commitments the Government entered into over two months ago whe…
They have received it.
Is there an apology next week?
Seacht mí ó shin, cuireadh Rialtas an Aire ar an eolas go raibh Airí, daoine atá íoctha suas le €200,000, i bhfad níos mó ná gnáthoibrithe na tíre seo, tar éis an iomarca pá a fháil. Seacht mí ar aghaidh, tá a fhios againn anois go bhfuil deichniúr Aire sa Rialtas seo nach bhfuil tar éis pingin rua den airgead sin a thabhairt ar ais. Ba chóir dúinn a bheith ionraic faoi cad go díreach atá i gceist anseo. Ní airgead a…
Give the Minister a wee clap there because he defended some of you anyway. God knows, it may be the people beside you who owe the tens of thousands of euro, money that is still resting in their accounts no doubt.
Let me make the point. Maybe the Members heckling have the most to answer for in relation to this. The core issue is that Ministers were overpaid tens of thousands of euro. Some Ministers paid that money back. In fairness to the Minister, Deputy Jack Chambers, he called on all the Ministers to pay it back. The Minister, Deputy Burke, did not even have the audacity or cop-on to do that. This money is not the Ministers…
-----owed €20,000 or €30,000 to the public purse and has been refusing to do it over the last seven months.