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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: It has never come to your notice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Fine. Deputy Commissioner Twomey has apologised for not contacting the Policing Authority last year, last month or at any time about this issue. There would not necessarily have been a need for a formal structure to make contact with it. It could have been through an e-mail or a phone call, and I am sure Deputy Commissioner Twomey meets people from the Policing Authority the odd time. Is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Yes, but Deputy Commissioner Twomey has already admitted he should have told it sooner than he did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Yes, but we have not really heard an explanation as to why he did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Apart from the letter, I cannot believe there was not a phone call.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: With regard to the Commissioner, on "Morning Ireland" Cathal Mac Coille interviewed Professor Cusack of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety. Cathal Mac Coille stated the bureau knew enough in 2014 to ask the question, to which Professor Cusack replied the numbers simply did not add up. Cathal Mac Coille asked whether Professor Cusack had a meeting with the Garda, to which he replied he had...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Senior Garda indiscipline is not in the remit of the Policing Authority but it is within the Commissioner's remit. Does the Commissioner agree there is a problem with how Garda indiscipline is dealt with? Did Superintendent Pat Murray have an involvement in the internal inquiry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I just read a press report that Superintendent Pat Murray was involved, but I do not know whether it is true. I want the Commissioner to confirm "yes" or "no".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: There is, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I am referring to a new internal investigation the Commissioner is setting up. In light of the problems dealing with indiscipline in the force I wonder whether Superintendent Pat Murray, who is the subject of a protected disclosure, got a job involved in the internal investigation, "yes" or "no".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: So the Commissioner is saying Pat Murray is not involved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Is he not involved in it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I will move on. I realise it is hard to get answers to questions. The Commissioner said in her submission her real fear is this falsification is not confined to traffic data. Does she have anything else in mind?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: There is nothing in particular in mind at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: For the record, I have been speaking for 13 minutes and the average so far has been more than 20.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: The last one was 25.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: The Commissioner said she will ensure people responsible at all levels will be held to account. Who will hold the Commissioner to account?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: In most jobs, people take responsibility for their performance. It goes without saying at this stage that there have been so many investigations and reports. Things are not really running awfully smoothly. Surely the buck stops with the Commissioner. The last Garda Inspectorate report in 2015 stated that no one had made the change happen. The Commissioner was almost two years in the gig...