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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: The issue that flows from the GSOC bugging controversy is disconcerting. What resources will be made available to Mr. Justice Cooke? What is the exact timeline for him to report? Will he have the imprimatur of the Minister or the Government to interview all relevant parties, including Rits, the outside agency introduced by the Minister late in the process to conduct a peer review?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: I want the Minister to expand on the peer review conducted by Rits. It seems curious that the Minister brought in this company to second-guess much of what was said at the committee and reported by Verrimus. A lot of briefing of the media was going on and we witness Verrimus, a UK-based company, issuing public statements to correct what it described as highly inaccurate reporting. Why did...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 1. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons behind his decision to relieve the Garda confidential recipient of his duties; his plans to change his relationship with the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9777/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Following the removal of Mr. Oliver Connolly from his position as confidential recipient, the Minister for Justice and Equality stated that he was asked to step down or was removed because he did not repudiate or deny what was in the transcript of the conversation between himself and Sergeant Maurice McCabe. I ask the Minister to expand on that statement and to outline the change in his...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: The Minister did not tell us whether minutes are kept in his Department of any meetings that he has had with the confidential recipient and I ask him to address that question. The Minister has also not addressed the fundamental issue here. What is contained in the transcript is not disputed by anybody, including by the Minister himself, but the Minister asked the confidential recipient to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 11. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he commissioned and received his Department's peer review report on the Verrimus report on potential unlawful surveillance in the offices of the Garda Ombudsman Commissioners; its conclusions on all three anomalies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9578/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 177. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he commissioned and received his Department peer review report on the Verrimus report on potential unlawful surveillance in the offices of the Garda Ombudsman Commissioners; its conclusions on all three anomalies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9779/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Act (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of resolutions made to date under the new personal insolvency regime; the number of applications made; the average time before deals are concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9580/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 34. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for changes to legislation setting out the relationship of the Garda Ombudsman and An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9579/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 40. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the senior counsel investigation into the serious crimes review team report into the death of Fr. Niall Molloy; the timeframe for completion of same; the process following its completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9581/14]

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Will there be a second round of questions?

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Listening to the Minister's statement in the Dáil this morning and following events as we have been in recent weeks, we would all agree that nobody in this House - no party and no individual - has a monopoly on pledging support to An Garda Síochána or wanting to see the force do the right thing. That is to what everybody in the House aspires. Unfortunately, part of the...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (25 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 156. To ask the Taoiseach if he has established an information officer; if this person is in charge of developing and implementing data protection in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8970/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Investigation (25 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 516. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the number of times An Garda Síochána applied to the courts to mount surveillance or interception operations under the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act in the past five years. [9191/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (25 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 539. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total strength of the Garda National Surveillance Unit on an annual basis since its inception; the total budget per annum since its inception; the number of operations conducted per annum since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9406/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Surveillance Operations (25 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 544. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has signed any document approving surveillance - covert, electronic or otherwise - on any serving Member of the Oireachtas since 9 March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9495/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Surveillance Operations (25 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 545. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that no serving Member of the Oireachtas is currently under surveillance of any kind by any agent of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9496/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Surveillance Operations (25 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 546. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has signed any document approving surveillance - covert, electronic or otherwise - by agents of the State on any person in the employment of a media organisation or publication operating in Ireland since 9 March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9497/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Surveillance Operations (25 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 547. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that no person currently in the employment of a media organisation or publication operating in Ireland is currently under surveillance of any kind by agents of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9498/14]