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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)
Imelda Munster: I want to come back to the changes that will occur within the BAI when it is, if we like, dissolved when the media commission comes into being. I was going to ask about additional staff needs and what the witnesses expect, and they have covered that as best they can. I want to ask how the content levy will affect BAI funding and how the witnesses see that transpiring. From the point of...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)
Imelda Munster: Yes, I want to ask how that will affect BAI's funding.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)
Imelda Munster: That is fair enough. The witnesses touched on the issue of the new complaints mechanism that will come to pass with regard to tech giants. I note that they said the BAI had already made a submission and proposals in regard to issues of scale and so on. Will the new media commission be responsible for all complaints in Europe or just those that come from Ireland? Did BAI make reference to...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Discussion with Chairperson-Designate (23 Mar 2022)
Imelda Munster: I do not know if I am speaking out of turn, but is it possible for the BAI to furnish a copy of its submission to the committee? I say that in the context of the committee's ongoing wide-scale engagement with stakeholders regarding the Bill. The one key thing that came out, above all others, was the importance of an independent complaints mechanism. That is the one thing the majority spoke...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: I thank the Chair. Good morning everybody. I will start with the cancellation of 999 emergency calls. Will the Commissioner give us some information on the methods used by the gardaí involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: In respect of circumventing having to deal with those emergency 999 calls.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: Is the Commissioner or is the investigation confident that it has identified all the gardaí involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: There is retraining or further training. The Commissioner gave us some figures. Can he provide an up-to-date figure without those cases that could warrant cancellation? Initially there were 200,000 calls and then a further 19,000 were identified as having been cancelled. Can the Commissioner give an up-to-date figure of the total number of cancelled calls that could not be justified?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: On cases relating to domestic abuse, how many calls have been identified in total as having been cancelled?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: How many prosecutions have resulted from revisiting the cancelled calls?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: Sorry, what was the reason for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: Was that because the calls were cancelled initially, there was no follow-up and they were not logged?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: I asked about prosecutions earlier. What about disciplinary procedures as a result of the missed calls and so on? It was reported that gardaí had discussed in a WhatsApp group exactly how to circumvent having to deal with those emergency 999 calls. Did the investigation seek access to that chat group?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: Before that, 134 cases were not prosecuted. Does the Commissioner feel that is a crime in itself? I am referring to gardaí not doing their job.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: Yes, but I am talking about a crime stemming from the cancelling of calls. Can we get an answer on the question about access to the chat group?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: I also want to know whether the records were requested.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: Okay. On that, how many gardaí have been suspended to date because of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: Two gardaí.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022) Imelda Munster: All right. I appreciate that this is ongoing to a certain extent, but given that there were 2,932 cancelled domestic violence calls, I would be worried that there are just two gardaí suspended. Two gardaí did not cancel 2,932 domestic violence calls. Then there are all the other ones. This was widespread.
- Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)
Imelda Munster: The housing crisis continues to escalate. The war in Ukraine and the resultant humanitarian crisis has highlighted the state of housing in Ireland yet again. We need to allow for thousands of refugees to come here to seek safety but our housing market is an absolute mess. By Easter weekend, we are expecting the number of arrivals to be between 26,000 and 32,000. Fine Gael has been in...