Results 41-60 of 124 for gsoc speaker:Mick Wallace

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (21 Sep 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...to avoid serious scrutiny in the next couple of years. On the issue of the €1 million, it was used in the Chamber by the Minister saying that we are moving the whistleblower operation to GSOC and we will give it an extra €1 million. Obviously, the €1 million is for GSOC’s general operation but I brought it up because it was used in the Chamber as an excuse...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...he would have introduced section 106, because it would have allowed for a wider examination of the practices, policies and procedures of An Garda Síochána, which is necessary. Unfortunately, the GSOC's hands are tied unless the Minister introduces section 106. This legislative deficiency in our policing oversight mechanism was severely criticised by UN rapporteur Margaret...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Wallace: I have issues with it. We have dealt a lot with GSOC and we have been looking at its problems for the seven years we have been in here. Rather than reinventing the wheel, it would not do the Legal Services Regulatory Authority any harm to look at the problems GSOC has faced, the mountains it has run into and the obstacles put in its way. The witnesses are not going into an easy job. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Protected Disclosures (30 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: GSOC was supposed to look after protected disclosures, but the Minister has now had to establish a panel. Does that mean that the workload is too much for GSOC or that there is a lack of confidence in its role in assessing protected disclosures? Section 41(1)(b) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 reads: "significant developments that might reasonably be expected to affect adversely...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...have no doubts that an independent public inquiry is required to establish the truth - an independent and public inquiry into the penalty points episode, into the allegations of surveillance of GSOC, and into reported malpractice and corruption in the force over a long period. One does not need to be a rocket scientist to assume that justice is not being administered fairly in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: Given that GSOC confirmed to the committee and Kieran FitzGerald confirmed on "Prime Time" that the sweep for covert surveillance arose at a time of heightened risk, which they linked to the investigation of the Kieran Boylan case, the proposed paper review by Mr. Justice Cooke must be permitted to examine any possible connection arising with any garda connected to the Kieran Boylan issue, to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...that he has formally requested both the Garda Commissioner and the Lieutenant General of the Defence Forces to make detailed inquiries into whether any authorised surveillance or interception of GSOC was ordered under either the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993 or any part of the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009 or unauthorised...

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

Mick Wallace: ...strength that they were more or less the boss. The Minister of State rightly mentioned that there has not been a wonderful relationship between the Garda authority and the commissioners in GSOC. Having three commissioners rather than one head to deal with resulted in a lot of cat and mouse being played. As it turns out the senior ranks of the Garda did not seem to be answerable to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...be in a position to deal with complaints about solicitors, my God, it will be under an avalanche. I wonder if this will be possible? We know for a fact that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, does not have the colour of the money it requires to its job properly. We have argued that GSOC remains designed to fail because of a lack of proper legislation and funding....

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to An Garda Síochána and other persons) Order 2014: Motion (15 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...to know the truth until we have an independent public inquiry into it. We will get nothing from the investigation by Mr. Justice Cooke either. We need a proper, public and independent inquiry into the GSOC bugging allegations. The GSOC bugging issue is, for me, the biggest scandal of them all. The truth has not been told. What GSOC found out last summer was enough for the Garda...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Funding (30 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: I am aware that GSOC has more money now than it did before, but will it not need even more if it is to do the job as effectively as we would like? Last December, the Minister announced that the Government had endorsed the report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland and agreed to accept all 157 key recommendations. According to the Department's implementation plan, the new...

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

Mick Wallace: ...as an independent arbiter. We have partially touched on this principle already. The amendment is intended to prevent the excuse of national security being invoked by the Minister to prevent a full investigation by GSOC. The legislation as drafted proposes to set the Minister as the final arbiter where there is a disagreement over whether an issue is considered a policing or a security...

Other Questions: Departmental Reports (12 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...statute, is only to look at HSE powers and if it was otherwise, we would not have to introduce legislation to give her extra powers. We already have the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, set up as a statutory body to investigate Garda misconduct, but yet the Minister for Justice and Equality seems to be ignoring and bypassing the specific statutory role and remits...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has more faith in the system than GSOC has shown. Given the decision of the DPP not to prosecute, I assume the Minister has sought and received briefings from the Garda Commissioner on whether the relevant senior gardaí have been disciplined, demoted or whether they remain serving in the Garda Síochána. I would be obliged if the Minister will update the House in...

Other Questions: Garda Misconduct Allegations (15 Nov 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Minister says she referred it to GSOC but she will not give it the papers. The Minister knows at this stage that Commissioner O'Sullivan questioned the motivation, credibility and integrity of Maurice McCabe. Her legal team claimed that at a meeting in Mullingar with a superintendent and another garda, Maurice McCabe had behaved in such a manner. The legal team for Maurice McCabe asked...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Garda Operations (19 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...know who took these decisions and whether anyone will be held responsible for them. I know the Commissioner is having his own investigation into the matter. I know the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, cannot carry out a section 102 investigation without the Commissioner or the Minister authorising it, just as GSOC was not allowed to investigate the Corrib gas...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (10 Dec 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...problems. A section 98 investigation will more than likely blame individual gardaí for decisions made by a higher authority. First, does the Minister honestly believe it is satisfactory that GSOC's hands are tied unless the Minister consents to an investigation under section 106, a deficit that was criticised by the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Margaret Sekaggya, in her report...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Mick Wallace: Has GSOC ever requested the code of discipline from the Garda Síochána?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Mick Wallace: Has GSOC requested access to its precise contents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Mick Wallace: However, GSOC must find it to be highly frustrating if it is dealing with the public but cannot make public such information.