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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (25 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 569. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of times the courts either rejected or accepted the grounds put forward by the Defence Forces for using surveillance or interception methods permitted under the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993 during the past five years. [9194/14]

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Hear, hear.

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Listening to the Minister's statement in the Dáil this morning and following events as we have been in recent weeks, we would all agree that nobody in this House - no party and no individual - has a monopoly on pledging support to An Garda Síochána or wanting to see the force do the right thing. That is to what everybody in the House aspires. Unfortunately, part of the...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Will there be a second round of questions?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 1. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons behind his decision to relieve the Garda confidential recipient of his duties; his plans to change his relationship with the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9777/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Following the removal of Mr. Oliver Connolly from his position as confidential recipient, the Minister for Justice and Equality stated that he was asked to step down or was removed because he did not repudiate or deny what was in the transcript of the conversation between himself and Sergeant Maurice McCabe. I ask the Minister to expand on that statement and to outline the change in his...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: The Minister did not tell us whether minutes are kept in his Department of any meetings that he has had with the confidential recipient and I ask him to address that question. The Minister has also not addressed the fundamental issue here. What is contained in the transcript is not disputed by anybody, including by the Minister himself, but the Minister asked the confidential recipient to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 4. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the remit, resources and powers given to the High Court judge led review of the Garda Ombudsman Commission investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9778/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: The issue that flows from the GSOC bugging controversy is disconcerting. What resources will be made available to Mr. Justice Cooke? What is the exact timeline for him to report? Will he have the imprimatur of the Minister or the Government to interview all relevant parties, including Rits, the outside agency introduced by the Minister late in the process to conduct a peer review?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: I want the Minister to expand on the peer review conducted by Rits. It seems curious that the Minister brought in this company to second-guess much of what was said at the committee and reported by Verrimus. A lot of briefing of the media was going on and we witness Verrimus, a UK-based company, issuing public statements to correct what it described as highly inaccurate reporting. Why did...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Why does the Minister not answer the questions?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Why does the Minister not answer the questions?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Yesterday evening in the House, the Minister was asked about comments by the Garda Commissioner, Martin Callanan, at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts and he quite conveniently relied on saying that he had not read the transcript. The Minister should not come into the House and give me that load balderdash that I did not read the transcript. I was at the committee meeting but I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Answer the questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: Frankly, I am astonished the Minister did not read the transcript of the Garda Commissioner's appearance at the Committee of Public Accounts. The Minister should judge others by his own standards.

Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 6. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the follow up action he has taken in view of the Smithwick tribunal report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9582/14]

Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: I reiterate our party position that we welcome the State apology to the families following the publication of the Smithwick tribunal report. There has been some recent reportage of potential challenge to some of the findings of the report. Can the Minister expand on the follow-up action he has taken arising from the publication?

Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: The Minister stated that he met his counterpart in Northern Ireland. Can he clarify what, if anything, was agreed, the follow-up actions arising from that engagement and the timeline for them?

Other Questions: Ministerial Responsibilities (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: He is having a fight with himself.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (27 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 11. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he commissioned and received his Department's peer review report on the Verrimus report on potential unlawful surveillance in the offices of the Garda Ombudsman Commissioners; its conclusions on all three anomalies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9578/14]