Results 21-40 of 117 for gsoc speaker:Clare Daly

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Staff (25 May 2017)

Clare Daly: 70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the two investigators seconded to the Charleton tribunal from GSOC have been covered by alternative recruitment; if not, the way in which she envisages the shortage of GSOC resources would be covered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25226/17]

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)

Clare Daly: ...issue of the Minister himself. He defended lock, stock and barrel the operation of the Garda when Deputy Wallace moved legislation last summer calling for reform. It has been our experience that GSOC desires to be what it was set out to be - a body to oversee complaints relating to the Garda force - but that it has been made toothless by the existing legislation. I am not sure what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: The Minister has misrepresented and quoted selectively throughout. Most of his submission to us allegedly relied on what GSOC had stated. GSOC, including Mr. Kieran FitzGerald, stated there was no evidence of Garda misconduct. Will the Minister state it is equally the case that there is no evidence of the Garda having been exonerated? It is a "Yes" or "No" answer. We have not received a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: The problem is that again, the Minister said that he does not want GSOC to be in a position where it does not have the resources to do its work. However, it does not have those resources. On 8 June 2017, GSOC was given a commitment that it would be given the resources by the Minister. We are in June discussing the annual budget. More than half of the year has gone, and the commission has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (15 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 35. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the controversies surrounding the relationship between GSOC and the Gardaí, and the fact that the outgoing Chairman of GSOC was directly overseeing a number of important cases with very serious implications for senior Gardaí, if she will confirm that these issues are unconnected with their decision to resign and that she...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: ...a key issue when the previous Garda Commissioner and Minister for Justice and Equality were in office. The perception at that time, which I believe reflected reality, was that in the case of a conflict between GSOC and senior Garda management, namely, the Commissioner, the Minister would side with the Garda Síochána to the detriment of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman...

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: This question relates to the adequacies, or rather inadequacies, of GSOC with regard to its ability to deal with its function as the recipient of protected disclosures from Garda whistleblowers. This is a matter Deputy Wallace and I have raised on repeated instances, even at the time the legislation was brought forward. We are heartened by the fact GSOC now agrees with us and has itself...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: ...dodged the fact that the report does not deal with the issue of lawful surveillance. Why was that excluded? The Tánaiste talks about the public interest inquiry under section 102 which provides for GSOC to investigate wrongdoing by gardaí. If the surveillance was lawful, there would be no wrongdoing to investigate. The Tánaiste knows and Cooke reports that the backdrop...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: ...Bill, we believe that this is the best way to deal with the issue. This relates to the point on State security, which is not defined in the Garda Síochána Act 2005. In certain cases where GSOC wanted to investigate matters but the Garda authorities or the Garda Commissioner objected to that on grounds of national security, the Minister was the final arbiter in the...

Committee Report on Garda Oversight and Accountability: Motion (2 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: .... 7 o’clock It is a matter of record that many of the recommendations contained in the report and the Minister's Bill were made by us a number of years ago during the debate on the first GSOC and Policing Authority Bills. I am not saying this to score points, but people have suffered as a result of some of these provisions not being available during the two years since the most...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: ...not know whether the Minister is playing dumb or he just does not get it. He will not escape behind this and this will haunt him unless he starts dealing with it properly. The Minister states GSOC needs time. It is the fifth year since this complaint was made. It involves gardaí involved in the heroin trade in the Minister's constituency. One young man has died - possibly two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Clare Daly: I am somewhat at a loss as to why, if all these processes are in place, GSOC and the whistleblowers are not happy. How can there be such a contradiction between the public statements the Garda authorities are making about how everything is grand and things are improving and the direct opposite position that is being set out by GSOC and the whistleblowers? The witnesses have said they were...

Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (22 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: ...the information that is in her possession and charge. I asked the Tánaiste if she had read it. The Tánaiste seems to think it is sufficiently important to commission a section 102 investigation with GSOC into these matters which, the Tánaiste told us earlier, was critically important. What will GSOC find out or what will it look for? Was evidence given to the...

Cooke Report: Statements (19 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: ..., Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, echoed those sentiments earlier. The former Garda Commissioner, Mr. Martin Callinan, previously said there was no question of any garda being involved in such wrongdoing. GSOC said it was all right too as it was said to have acted in good faith. The problem is everyone is capable of saying a black page is white but this doesn't make it true. The roots of the...

Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: ...relates to the previous one on foot of the Minister's decision to have a review of the 2011 Act regarding journalists' records. It obviously arose from the controversy and media backlash over GSOC accessing journalists' phone records, which was a little ironic given that some of the most vociferous objectors to the powers of surveillance for GSOC over the Garda are some of the quietest...

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)

Clare Daly: ...he would have been long gone. We say this particularly given the crisis he has weathered over the past 18 months, when the Taoiseach stood by him through the major scandals relating to the bugging of GSOC and the serious allegations of Garda malpractice put forward by Sergeant Maurice McCabe. Let us remember that Maurice McCabe, who last week had to make a complaint about bullying he is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: The ICCL has teed this up very well. Mass surveillance is a very broad issue and Deputy Wallace and I have raised Garda oversight and surveillance in the context of the GSOC bugging scandal, as well as the limitations in our legislation in this respect. We do not agree with the State being empowered to get its hands on anyone's private information, whatever his or her profession. All...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: ...to the authority which is thereafter accountable to the Minister. One of our key points is that this confused model will not work and will result in future blame games similar to the ones which arose around the GSOC controversy. There is nothing wrong with our proposal to give GSOC a role in deciding these matters. There is no unified body that says it should not have that type of...

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: That was three years ago but the money has not been spent by GSOC. Nothing has been done to call those individuals to account. We need an overhaul of GSOC with more funds and fresh blood from outside with the power of the Garda to launch a criminal investigation into these matters. My last point relates to the sitting Commissioner. It is untenable to have a Commissioner who is the subject...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: ...conversation. We have consistently tried to raise it in this House but to the complete disinterest of the media and political establishment. There is a certain double standard in the outcry over GSOC accessing of journalist phone records and the response has been entirely disproportionate. Citizens have had their telephone conversations from prison with their solicitors tapped into and...