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- 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."
- 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]
- 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...
- 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: 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: 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.
- 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: Was the Garda Commissioner informed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: He was not aware that this investigation was going on. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: Last night statements were made in the Dáil, of which I am sure Mr. O'Brien is aware. The Minister said that no evidence of unauthorised technical or electronic surveillance was found. He went on to say that it was unfortunate that An Garda Síochána has found itself during the last 48 hours the subject of what appears to be completely baseless innuendo. He added that no...
- 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...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: Since last Sunday, the Government has engaged in a co-ordinated strategy that has served to undermine the Office of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. On Monday, the Taoiseach took to the media and demanded that the GSOC level with the Minister for Justice and Equality. He further chose to repeatedly misquote section 80 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 and misinform...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: It is difficult to figure out what the Labour Party stands for. The Tánaiste is continuing the narrative that the Government has been peddling all week. The message is that there is nothing to see here and we should move along. I asked the Tánaiste whether he was concerned that the Taoiseach publicly demanded of an independent office that it level with a Minister. Is he not...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2014)
Niall Collins: The committee heard exactly the opposite of what the Government has been saying all week.