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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is Deputy Munster happy with the answers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Commissioner has indicated he is happy to speak to the Deputy privately at the end of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Commissioner should know that I am always last to ask questions. Not every committee does its business like this but that is my choice. He referred a couple of times to the report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was waiting for the Commissioner to reference the report of the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality in respect of community policing and rural crime. He referenced non-appropriate demands being placed on gardaí, including mental health interventions. All of those issues were reflected in the report we presented. I hope I am not promoting him - I think I have it right - but I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I was promoting him. Deputy Commissioner Twomey can tell him I did that. I want to acknowledge that Assistant Commissioner Finn attended the launch of the report here, which was very much appreciated by the members of the committee. I would commend the report and its recommendations to the Commissioner, which only last Thursday was the subject of a full Dáil debate during which it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Some of the examples the Commissioner cited are part of the story going back over many years, given the location and the reality of the Border-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----but two relatively new challenges present. I refer to anti-social behaviour to a point where the impact on innocent people in the community and the efforts of An Garda Síochána are almost irrelevant. Some of that is drugs related. Drugs activity is taking place openly within the community, which I have only recently referenced both in terms of our local authority and An...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I want to raise an issue which occurred since we last met the Commissioner. On Tuesday, 26 March 2019, at approximately 8.30 a.m. a man in his night attire believing his life was in danger jumped from an upstairs window onto the street below in an attempt to get away from heavily armed black clad individuals who had their faces covered and who had just broken through a number of doors and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I would appreciate that. It gives me no pleasure to raise the issue but that is the situation as I understand it and I would appreciate the Commissioner's taking the time to inform himself of what was involved. The deployment, according to the Minister, was sanctioned either by the Commissioner or members of his senior management team. That was the reply given to me on the floor of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Commissioner do that, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you. I thank the Commissioner, Mr. Harris, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Twomey, chief administrative officer, Mr. Nugent, director of communications, Mr. McLindon, and Superintendent Broderick for their attendance here. It might interest them to know that commentary among colleagues afterwards will be that the Commissioner has trimmed the attendance at the committee and at least ten...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: On the same issue-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----Mr. Paul Reid, the newly appointed director general of the HSE, has just received a series of briefings from senior HSE managers, including the warning that there will be a deficit in relation to fair deal funding over the course of this year of up to €30 million. This will contribute to an ever-increasing backlog of elderly patients in hospital wards moving into long-term...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The solution is no more talk of tax cuts.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Let us improve services provision.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: They are insufficient.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Acting Chairman proposing one minute?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is miserable.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The issue at the heart of this dispute is one of rights, primarily the right of workers to join and be represented by the trade union of their choice. We have had six days of protest action, including one of 24 hours duration, by the more than 500 ambulance staff who are members of the National Ambulance Service Representative Association, NASRA, branch of the PNA. We are now to face...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Trade Union Recognition (3 Jul 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: First and foremost, the Minister, Deputy Harris, should be here to answer this issue. He continuously absents himself on health matters. This is as grievous an issue as any other that will present itself. The Minister of State said that the HSE and the National Ambulance Service have no obligation to recognise NASRA, or the PNA to represent ambulance personnel. I contend that they have a...