Results 21-40 of 97 for gsoc speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...emanating from a particular Garda division or station in whatever area? To qualify that, I acknowledge some of the complaints made are not admissible, as can be seen from the figures presented by GSOC. There are many vexatious complaints but there are also some genuine complaints. If there are several admissible complaints in respect of a particular area, division or station, does that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Finally, on the new legislation, Mr. Justice MacCabe said in his opening statement that some of the challenges faced by GSOC arise from the mandate under which it operates, but this is likely to change in the shape of the new broad reforms to be proposed in the policing, security and community safety Bill. It was outlined earlier that the Commissioner has described the new proposals as...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...McPhillips, Secretary General of Department of Justice, dated 15 March 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding the workload of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, complaints referred by it to An Garda Síochána and vice versa, and an update regarding the meeting with regard to senior members of the Garda facilitated by the Workplace...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Regarding case management and complaints, according to the figures supplied by GSOC, I see that 485 criminal investigations were opened in 2019, 572 were opened in 2020 and 557 were opened in 2021. A total of 658 disciplinary investigations were opened in 2019 while 752 were opened in 2021. GSOC corresponded with the committee last year and sent us figures for 2020 last July. If we look at...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Sport Ireland and the Football Association of Ireland to 8 February 2024. On 15 February, the committee has agreed to meet with An Garda Síochána and GSOC on the 2022 appropriation account for Vote 20 – Garda Síochána, and GSOC’s 2022 financial statements. The timelines for the processing and...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: GSOC needs to be more active in following up on what action is being taken. If it has looked for something, it should ascertain what is happening in that regard and whether progress is being made. That is important. I ask that GSOC follow up in that way. The committee should be making a recommendation that the issue needs to be fixed. There is a problem there. I will bring in Ms...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have had complaints over the weekend from gardaí and their representative bodies saying that investigations about complaints lodged with GSOC about individual gardaí can take years. They outline the matter in stark terms. Judge Rory MacCabe stated that a further issue was that of resourcing. He stated: "The committee will – at the risk of my rehearsing the broken record...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...report. Representatives of the HSE have also been invited to attend. On 8 February we meet with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission on its 2022 financial statements. The resourcing of GSOC and timelines for processing and completion of complaints by GSOC have been flagged as areas of interest. This is going by previous meetings in respect of the shortage of resources, I...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Feb 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...of Justice, dated 16 February 2022 providing information requested by the committee regarding the impact of industrial action on the operations of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. The Secretary General advises that: ...agreement was reached between the parties on a mechanism to move the matter under dispute forward over the next two months. As part of this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...It provides information requested by the committee into reports of unofficial strike action by senior officers in An Garda Síochána, and its impact on the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission's, GSOC, investigations. This was raised by members here. The Secretary General states that while both GSOC and An Garda Síochána are statutorily independent, the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...the process takes time. There are things that cannot be rushed and it takes time to get information and evidence and all that, but it is clear this is a fundamental problem at the heart of GSOC and the process. There is a new Act but it will not be worth the paper it is written on if the tools to implement it are not provided. It is not fair to GSOC, gardaí who have complaints...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: .... With him is Mr. Ciaran Crowe, audit manager at the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. This morning we will engage with officials from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, to examine financial statements for 2022 for the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. The committee has flagged the timelines for the processing and completion of complaints...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...in relation to its investigation was to request that the names of those involved not be published as to do so may prejudice any possible criminal investigation. In regard to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation, the correspondence states that a Garda liaison officer has been appointed to assist GSOC with its inquiries. At our meeting on 4 March we...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I think it was acknowledged here that there is a shortage of actual investigators and a problem recruiting them. I also want to put a follow-on question. Has GSOC, through the Department of Justice, fed this into the Department of further and higher education? One of the things that niggles at me - hardly a week goes by without us dealing with it - is that we are awful in this State at...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: We did not seek that information from GSOC but it is on the work programme for next year.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Representatives of GSOC will be before us in a few weeks' time. Maybe we will ask them to bring that information with them on the day.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Representatives of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, will be before the committee next week. I call Deputy Munster who has ten minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Just to better understand, I am trying to get a picture of the organisation of GSOC. Who would the other 33 be? What qualification-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Justice MacCabe welcomes the Bill generally. What is the single biggest change it will bring about to strengthen GSOC?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: What is the biggest fence GSOC has to jump at the moment?