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- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I would add that gardaí themselves, through the Garda Representative Association and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, AGSI, have stated repeatedly that they want politics removed from policing. It is not only the public who wants this following the episodes and the failure of the Department of Justice and Equality and Ministers to oversee An Garda Síochána...
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is a large grouping of amendments so we are forced to speak to a range of them at the same time. I imagine this will take considerable time. The first group of amendments I wish to speak to are amendments Nos. 9 to 13, inclusive and 15 to 21, inclusive. These amendments are in line with the need for the authority to be truly independent. The Minister should not be permitted to...
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not finished yet.
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a right to put this on the record. It is the Government's-----
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Okay. That is fair enough. I have made my point. It is unprecedented and outrageous. Many Ministers receive amendments. We put a huge amount of work into our amendments and we engaged through all of it. Unfortunately we were disadvantaged by the fact that the justice committee was scheduled for a date and time at which all the Opposition made clear we could not make it. The committee...
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a feeling that exchange will go viral.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy should cop himself on. This is the people's Parliament, not just a place of work. This is the people's Parliament. The Deputy should cop himself on. His Government has destroyed people's lives.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputies should cop themselves on. They are a bunch of babies, whimpering babies.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Whimpering babies is what they are.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy should cop himself on.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Was Deputy Butler there?
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He should cop himself on. He is an eejit and should cop himself on.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As well as spinning it and leaking it to journalists.
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That approach is working.
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 6:In page 7, line 16, to delete “the Minister” and substitute “a member of the judiciary”.
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 4:In page 7, line 15, to delete “the Minister” and substitute “a member of the judiciary, as delegated by the Chief Justice”.
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am.
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: An Garda Síochána is perhaps unique. I am not sure if it is the only one, but it is one of the few police services in the world that retains security and policing responsibilities. To compare it with the North is not to make an exact comparison. There are a number of intelligence agencies, including MI5 and MI6, that operate internally and externally from Whitehall and on the...
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (11 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Minister of State will recall, we had an extensive debate on this matter on Committee Stage. I am very alarmed. When the Minister was in attendance at an event organised by the Law Society and the IHREC, Mr. Conor Brady, a former member of GSOC, made the sensible proposal that wherever something was deemed to be a matter of State security by the Garda when the police authority or...
- Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (11 Nov 2015)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: For the record of the Dáil, there were two sittings at which this Bill was considered on Committee Stage. The Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy, presided over the first sitting. The Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, presided over the second sitting which was unfortunately and disappointingly scheduled at a time and date when it could not be attended by any of the...