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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: Just to be clear because I am having difficulty ---
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: I am having difficulty reconciling what the Minister said last night with what Mr. O'Brien is saying today. Mr. O'Brien has told us that when he briefed the Minister on Monday he informed him that he opened a section 102(4) investigation into An Garda Síochána. Is it the case that GSOC is now conducting an internal investigation to ascertain the source of the leak? In other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: I would like to thank the commissioners for their presentation and for the timely fashion in which they came to meet the committee. I thank them for the work they do and acknowledge they have a very difficult job. With regard to informing the Minister of their concerns following the checks made, has the commission previously had to inform this or previous Ministers of concerns that arose...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: Is it custom and practice to inform the Minister of all public interest investigations the commission initiates under section 102(4), but which it did not do in this case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: Mr. O'Brien said in his opening statement that the commission opened the public interest investigation into An Garda Síochána on 8 October 2013. Was that investigation into the Garda body as a whole or into one or two members or a group of members? Was the Garda Commissioner informed at the time the commission had commenced that investigation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: If the investigation was not into an individual or a body of individuals within An Garda Síochána, is it fair to say that the investigation was into the entire body of An Garda Síochána?
- Judicial Appointments Bill 2014: First Stage (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the selection, appointment and promotion of members of the judiciary, to establish a judicial appointments board with responsibility for recommending to Government who should be nominated for appointment to judicial office, to give effect to the declaration of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary on...
- Judicial Appointments Bill 2014: First Stage (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: It might be a bug.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: I hear them as well.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: Will the Minister give us his opinion on the provision of non-legal services? As outlined in the submission, is he open to restricting the range of non-legal services which might be provided in future under the multidisciplinary practices?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: I move amendment No. 155: In page 65, line 5, after “partnership.” to insert the following:“Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of a professional body to regulate the conduct of the members of that body and to make rules of membership for that purpose.”.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: I apologise for being late. I did not hear the Minister's introductory speech entirely. With regard to multidisciplinary practices and alternative business structures, has the Minister received conclusive proof that legal costs will reduce for the consumer? The Minister mentioned competition. If there are a number of multidisciplinary practice structures that manage to corner the market...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Suicide Prevention (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: 156. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to publish Garda procedures dealing with suicidal drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7140/14]
- Reports of Unlawful Surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Statements (11 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: It was proven that it is not fit for purpose.
- Reports of Unlawful Surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Statements (11 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: This was brought into the public domain last week, was raised again today and I am raising it now. It is necessary for us to get a response in respect of the comments made by the confidential recipient to the whistleblower. It is simply not good enough. What we have seen in the Minister's statement is a play on words in respect of what the GSOC statement said in respect of whether there...
- Reports of Unlawful Surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Statements (11 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: There is no doubt the last 48 hours have been a defining period in what is an exceptionally dysfunctional relationship between An Garda Síochána and the GSOC, which is all happening under the Minister's watch. It is a very regrettable situation. To recap, we had the penalty points controversy which dominated the headlines and has served to damage the morale of the force. We also...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Expenditure (11 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: 415. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the total amount of money spent on civil legal aid in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6220/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Expenditure (11 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: 417. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money spent on family mediation services under the Legal Aid Board in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6223/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Expenditure (11 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: 416. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the total amount of money spent on criminal legal aid in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6221/14]