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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: It is amazing to members of the public and of this committee that it can take from April to February of the following year for An Garda Síochána to prepare a report which the Policing Authority found acceptable. Although I accept what Ms Feehily says on the subject, to many people it seems - at least initially in the April presentation - some deliberately misleading information was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: Does Ms Feehily think the way she treated the two witnesses who appeared before this committee was appropriate? I ask Ms Feehily that specifically allowing for her initial or non-contact with them and the fact that subsequent to that there was contact with them. Even allowing for what Ms Feehily said was a policy, she seems to have adjusted that half way through because she seems to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: The impression I gained from their evidence to us at our committee meeting was that felt they had pretty much hit a stone wall in trying to communicate with the Policing Authority and have their views heard. Does Ms Feehily believe that is misleading?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: For the purpose of clarity, Ms Feehily is quite happy that the engagement by the Policing Authority with them was at all times professional, that it was reasonable and correct and she could 100% stand over the way the Policing Authority dealt with this as having been the correct way to deal with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: It seems quite obvious that they do have a different perception of the engagement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: I am just trying to figure out what occurred. I am not trying to trip Ms Feehily up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: She believes the authority's engagement was at all times correct and professional but they obviously has a very different perspective on that. Is there an internal process that the Policing Authority should be examining in regard to how it deals with people who contact it in these kinds of circumstances? Ms Feehily seems to say she did nothing wrong and that the authority does not need to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: In light of that answer, does Ms Feehily believe it was inappropriate for the authority to be contacted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: Can I move on to one final area, on which I would like to ask Ms Feehily for an overview? I echo Ms Feehily's sentiments on getting this done as quickly as possible and on circulating the information as quickly as possible because there are victims, families and people with genuine concerns. In the section of her opening remarks that dealt with how the investigation is proceeding, she noted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: With a view to having a more generic or complete overview, is there any other area in respect of this type of review or otherwise where the Policing Authority has experienced this type of difficulty?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: It was really disappointing to hear Ms Feehily having to say that, after the whole process associated with the homicide review, involving the three reports and an 18-month period, the Policing Authority is still receiving the same types of treatment and reporting from what is at this point nearly the third reincarnation of Garda management, that it is still being handed material at 6 p.m. the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: I apologise but I must leave this meeting early. I thank Ms Feehily.

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: I wish to rase this issue again, and I agree with what Deputy Curran has said. Without repeating the points he made, there are a couple of aspects I would like to make very clear. Citywest is one of the fastest growing areas where new housing is concerned. A community's parents and children cannot be expected to rely on a school located in Kingswood or a school proposed to be located in...

Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and will pick up on that straight away. The real solution is in the nationwide demographic exercise. The Citywest-Saggart area must be an area in its own right. The Department has models it likes and a way in which it likes to work. Nobody on the ground locally or who is in any way involved in a daily life in Citywest would tell the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (28 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: 197. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether Addison’s disease should be included in the list of illnesses under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14323/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (28 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: 223. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether heated tobacco products should not be given a reduced and more favourable excise treatment than cigarettes in view of the World Health Organization’s position that all forms of tobacco use are harmful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14462/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (28 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: 224. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to engage with the Department of Finance on the excise duties of heated tobacco products in advance of their potential launch here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14463/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Apr 2018)

Colm Brophy: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance his views in relation to the excise of heated tobacco products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15412/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (17 Apr 2018)

Colm Brophy: 635. To ask the Minister for Health if a motorised vehicle grant for persons with disabilities which was discontinued a number of years ago will be reintroduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16415/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (18 Apr 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have not received any apologies today. At 3.45 p.m., the committee will meet the Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, to discuss the stability programme update. I now propose we go into private session.