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Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 37:In page 10, line 25, to delete "or Deputy Garda Commissioner" and substitute ", Deputy Garda Commissioner, Assistant Garda Commissioner, chief superintendent or superintendent".

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 37:In page 10, line 25, to delete "or Deputy Garda Commissioner" and substitute ", Deputy Garda commissioner, Assistant Garda Commissioner, chief superintendent or superintendent".

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (27 Sep 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 395: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give an assurance that no Garda stations will be closed in County Donegal following national media reports that 24 Garda stations in County Donegal have been submitted to the Garda Commissioner as possibilities for closure. [25984/11]

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (8 May 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí that are to be relocated due to his station rationalising plans; the date on which this was agreed with the Garda Commissioner; and the timeframe in which gardaí affected by this were told of these plans. [22682/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (10 Jun 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 455. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality having regard to the widespread disquiet among sports shooting organisations at the manner in which the Garda has administered the firearms licensing code over the past four years, the enormous number of court judgements against the Garda arising from their members' complaints and the importance of the integrity of the firearms licensing code...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To summarise, essentially, Ms Fisher is saying the Department of Justice and Equality is to oversee the various bodies - the Garda Inspector, the Garda professional standards unit, GPSU, the Garda Ombudsman and the new policing authority - to ensure that they are complementing and, collectively, overseeing the process of change as best they can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My next question is for the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, which in fairness has acknowledged the professionalism of the Garda Inspectorate, and the curricula vitae of the three senior personnel in the inspectorate show they obviously are people of the highest calibre. However, the ICCL makes the point that in the forthcoming new dispensation its existence might not be necessary....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Extradition Arrangements (30 Apr 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...publicly that he would consult the Attorney General on the matter. On three subsequent occasions, the legal representatives of Mr. Ian Bailey corresponded with the Minister on the failure of An Garda Síochána to fully co-operate with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission in respect of documentation. As the Minister is aware, a similar issue arose the following year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Alert Programme: Muintir na Tíre (4 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The issue of Garda station closures in rural areas has received much prominence. What Mr. Cronin has asked for, rather than focusing on Garda station closures, is more resources for community alert and text alert programmes. I am a big supporter of these programmes, having seen waves of crime and criminal gangs so many times in Donegal. The only way to truly defeat them is with the...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It has been a bad week for senior gardaí. This week the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission published a seven page summary into the public interest investigation into the Garda and expressed concern that the recommendations of the Morris tribunal on the handling of informers, and very serious issues arose at the time, have not been implemented by the Garda Síochána....

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...of the reasons my party has no confidence in him. Let us go through the others, from the handling of the penalty points issue, the procrastination from the moment the whistleblowers went to the Garda confidential recipient, through to the decision to go for an internal Garda investigation, the repeated attempts to discredit the Garda whistleblowers, to the two year delay in referring the...

Guerin Report: Statements (15 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...so far in response to some of these crises, I will detail, with the Minister present, what has gone wrong. The Morris tribunal in my home county, Donegal, revealed an appalling abuse of power by the Garda Síochána at every level throughout the county that shocked people throughout the State. It was not isolated and is not unique to Ireland but happens in police forces...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...all of this. Many more will be outraged that under a succession of Ministers for Justice from Fianna Fáil, the Progressive Democrats and Fine Gael, thousands of telephone calls in and out of Garda stations were recorded, inappropriately and illegally in some instances. Did these include detained persons speaking to their solicitors? This is the latest in a series of debacles around...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...and it is overdue in terms of what we need. Much of the focus in recent times has been on issues that are certainly important but they are not the most important in terms of what we need from An Garda Síochána. I believe every Member of this House would agree that the overwhelming majority of the men and women in An Garda Síochána are people of the highest calibre....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (15 Jan 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the promotion of any member of An Garda Síochána under investigation over matters of serious public importance in the GSOC Special Report from May 2013 issued pursuant to Section 80(5) of the Garda Síochána Act, 2005; and her views on the promotion of such a member of An Garda...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (11 Jul 2012)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the growing concerns in the Inishowen area of County Donegal at the response of Gardaí to a number of incidents over recent weeks including delays of over 24 hour delays in taking statements from some victims of crime, the lack of availability of Gardaí in Buncrana in the early hours of weekends...

Other Questions: Garda Strength (15 Jan 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to draw the attention of the Minister to the fact that in the past week the Garda Representative Association, GRA, issued a serious statement with regard to Donegal. It is concerned about staffing issues in the county. Gardaí based in rural areas are being drafted to Letterkenny, which is the main town in the county. In fairness, for operational reasons the GRA has not...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The term "As soon as practicable" does not deliver what we want here. I was chairing the public oversight committee when the Garda Ombudsman Commissioners came before us to speak to their seven- or eight-page summary of the report into the Kieran Boylan affair. I appreciate that protocols are in place and that levels of co-operation have improved, but what they revealed then was disturbing....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Promotions (9 Dec 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 255. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that the practice whereby the Garda Commissioner forwards to her the names of two members to be appointed by her ceases forthwith and that all future appointments to Garda promotion boards will be made by her from the established panel, independently by her and without any reference formal or informal to the Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Human Rights and Equality Commission, Amnesty International, Transparency International Ireland and other contributors raised the issue of security oversight. Unlike in the North of Ireland, An Garda Síochána has responsibility for intelligence, security and policing all under the one roof. The contributors last week made the suggestion that we need more scrutiny similar to...