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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I thank the Commissioner and his team for being here. Many of the points have been covered. I have a few brief questions. In regard to the issue of this committee meeting with the whistleblower and the conversation the Commissioner had with the Chairman earlier in the meeting, I understand that the Commissioner would welcome receiving a copy of the redacted material which we have in our...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I wonder what the Commissioner then intends to do. In an effort to assist us with our look at this matter, is he going to look at the box and then endeavour to respond to us on the contents of the box, or what is his intention? What is the Commissioner hoping to garner from looking at the box?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: The Commissioner, and, presumably, particularly assistant commissioner O'Mahoney, who has done all this work on the Garda's report, will probably be able to garner relatively quickly whether he is looking at material similar to what he already looked at.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Would that be a fair assumption?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Mr. Callinan is the Commissioner. He will give the job to whom he likes. The Commissioner should be able to garner fairly quickly whether he is looking at new material or, as I say, material the assistant commissioner has already looked at.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I wonder should we garner from the Commissioner's comments regarding his heading up a disciplined force and his right to take legal advice that he intends to consider preventing us meeting with the whistleblower next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Please.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I thank the Commissioner for clarifying his view. Can he clarify - he has discussed some of these matters to some degree already - the issue of a garda at the appropriate rank cancelling a fixed charge penalty notice from outside of their district? Why would that happen? It is a genuine question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: That is good to hear. On the issue of the blanks - both reports refer to this and it is something we have seen in the material that we have - was this just a case of sloppiness, for want of a better word? I know the Commissioner has given some examples already as to why this might have happened in the sense of people rushing about their business - gardaí are busy - and just not...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I am talking about some of the information we have received which has now being discussed where when we look at the file there is a box which is meant to contain the reason and there is no reason given in the box.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I have a final question and comment on which I would like to get the Commissioner's view. I accept the 95% or thereabouts figure because we have that roughly in the Comptroller and Auditor General 's report and in the assistant commissioner, Mr. O'Mahoney's report. We are homing in on the 2.7%.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: That is what I am talking about. We are acknowledging that 95% plus is beyond question but it is the 2.57%. When I look at some of the information we have been sent and some of the information that has appeared in both reports, it makes sense that gardaí have to apply discretion, and I accept the Commissioner's comments on that. It makes sense that somebody could be sick once and in a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I take that point but I am specifically talking about the multiple occasions. Let us take the Commissioner's example of the person with the bees. I do not mean to trivialise it but that person was speeding, they were breaking the law. They might have had to rush home but, ultimately, the life of a person is obviously more important than the life of the livestock or of the bees. If the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: The Commissioner is working on the systems too.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: If a figure is available in the public domain of the number of complaints made or if it has been given to the Minister, I am not sure why the Commissioner cannot share it with the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: It is in the annual report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I thought the Commissioner said it was an annual report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Which is not published?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (28 Jan 2014)
Simon Harris: 117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the issue of youth unemployment falls within the remit of a Cabinet sub-committee; the Departments and Ministries under which that responsibility for addressing youth unemployment falls; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2195/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (28 Jan 2014)
Simon Harris: 132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has submitted her Department's plan for the implementation of the youth guarantee in Ireland; the actions in this plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2194/14]