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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: There are two issues I want to raise. The first arises from what we have just heard. I certainly will not contradict anyone on what they said, but could we explore a bit more the issues of natural justice that have been outlined? Two things were said that I am concerned about. First, on the issue that a garda can be investigated by GSOC without being on notice of that, I do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: Any of the Garda representative organisations. It is for the sworn members rather than for the civil servants.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: I totally agree that is wrong. There is no defence for that. I am talking more about when somebody is under investigation and he or she does not know it. That does not pose a problem for me. I do not know what Mr. McAnenly thinks about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: I agree. However, if a garda has been under investigation by GSOC for a period and does not know it, that in and of itself is not a problem. Would Mr. McAnenly disagree with me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: That is something that would not necessarily be accorded to a member of the public who was under investigation for some wrongdoing. He or she would not necessarily be aware that he or she was under investigation, up to a certain point. Obviously, a conclusion could not be drawn under the investigation until such time as that person's point of view had been canvassed one way or the other....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: Let us say that I am being investigated for fraud by An Garda Síochána. All of the investigations would take place. My bank accounts might be examined, there might be surveillance and whatever else might happen by An Garda Síochána, and rightly. It would not want to tip me off to the fact it is on to my wrongdoing. Obviously, before the Garda sends its file to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: Mr. McAnenly and I are agree on the cases mentioned. I do not know if Ms Cunningham wants to come in on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: Would Ms Cunningham agree, though, that an investigation could evolve and that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: If I have time, Chair, may I just mention the Civil Service aspect as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: I make a distinction between civil servants in ordinary Civil Service roles, if we can call them that, and those who are engaged in An Garda Síochána. There is a higher standard required of them. I wonder, in respect of the regulation of those people, if it is not fair they are subject to greater regulation and greater transparency in their activities. What was described earlier...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: Would Mr. Mullen accept Civil Service members working within An Garda Síochána are in a different category from somebody working within even the Department of Justice or the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or wherever it might be, and there is a basis on which they should be subject to more stringent regulation in the context of the sensitive material to which they...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Driver Licences (10 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The issue I raise relates to driver licensing. Until 2006, it was standard in this country that the B category licence people hold, that is, an ordinary car licence, also included other categories, namely, the W category for work vehicles and the AM category for mopeds. On the back of the driving licence the categories people are qualified to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Driver Licences (10 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate his remarks. I am sorry the Minister does not have plans to change this rule. I hope we will be able to convince him otherwise. There are still inconsistencies. I acknowledge the road safety imperative involved and that being on two or three wheels is different from being cocooned in a car, and we can see that in the way the respective drivers...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: I want to raise the issue of hyperemesis. Morning sickness is an unfortunate and unpleasant part of pregnancy for many women but hyperemesis is much more serious. It is a condition that results in very severe sickness and renders women malnourished and dehydrated at times. One in 100 pregnancies will result in hospitalisation of the expectant mother because of hyperemesis. There are drugs...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: I have raised a number of times in the House the issue of water quality, not just around our coasts and in our rivers but in particular where people swim. During lockdown, many people availed of the opportunity to swim in the sea, rivers and lakes, and they do so sometimes at their peril.They do so sometimes at their peril. I am coming from Dún Laoghaire where Dublin Bay creates its...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: I will very briefly acknowledge much of what Senator Chambers said and the initiative behind this Bill. I congratulate her on the progress it has made. It sets down an important message regarding the ability of non-Government Members, if I can put it in those terms, to bring forth legislative proposals that work. There is a body of elected representatives in this House in particular who...

Seanad: Uyghur Tribunal: Motion (9 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach agus cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit freisin. At the outset, let me say that I have read this report. It took a little bit of time because there is an enormous amount of detail, testimony and evidence in it. It is disturbing, in no uncertain terms, but it is not surprising, because this is not the first we have heard...

Seanad: Uyghur Tribunal: Motion (9 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: I condemn China. No one condemns China quite as much as I do in this House. I am a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, which I co-chair with Senator Malcolm Byrne. We have been to several meetings with our parliamentary colleagues around the world. We are doing our best to bring a message to China that it cannot and must not continue. The Uyghur case is perhaps one of...

Seanad: Uyghur Tribunal: Motion (9 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: -----that if we do not stand up as respectable and consistent members of the international community, we diminish our power on the world stage. We are not a great military or industrial power so for us, that power is soft. It is exercised in the Security Council at the UN, in our embassy in Beijing and in contact between the Minister of State, Deputy Thomas Byrne, the Minister for Foreign...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2022)

Barry Ward: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus an Ceannaire Gníomhach. Cuirim fáilte léi. Go n-éirí léi mar Ceannaire Gníomhach an tSeanaid. I want to raise an issue today that is quite delicate. It is something that I am conflicted on as a criminal barrister and somebody who has practised in an area of law that requires principles of justice to be applied...