Results 41-60 of 621 for garda speaker:David Cullinane

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Can I make one point? I want to give Mr. O'Brien leave to answer the question. With all due respect, Mr. O'Brien offers up as an excuse as to why the HSE did not contact An Garda Síochána prior to March 2015 the excuse that if the HSE had asked, An Garda Síochána would have said "no". The HSE did not ask and that is the point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I raised this case because it was brought to my attention before the Garda Commissioner appeared before the committee. There was a value-for-money element to it because there was an allegation at the time that due process was not followed. That led to a criminal investigation that cost the State money. It went to court and the charges were dismissed. Leaving aside that case, I have no...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

David Cullinane: That is fine; that is reporting. What I am talking about is holding the Garda authorities to account. Recommendations were made. I am asking whether the recommendations were implemented? Are the changes that were promised being made? We need to give that some consideration. One could argue that we have to wait until the Garda Síochána come back before us again in the normal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: That might be a sore point in some counties in which Garda stations have been closed over recent years, particularly in rural areas. Thirty-two councillors on Waterford City and County Council and all of the county's Oireachtas Members bar one wrote to Mr. Harris outlining concerns about the headquarters of the new Waterford-Kilkenny-Carlow division potentially being outside Waterford. Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

David Cullinane: With respect, we need to get more information on almost everything. It seems to me that if this happened in 2014, there must have been an acknowledgement within the corporate entity - either An Garda Síochána or the Garda college - that there were issues that it needed to start addressing by beginning to make payments back to the OPW. I want to know what triggered that. Why did...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017)

David Cullinane: ..."; and that it had a lack of clear responsibility and accountability both within the Department and when dealing with external agencies. It then lists those external agencies and among them is An Garda Síochána. The report goes on to specifically state that the management of the relationship of the Department with An Garda Síochána also needed to be examined and then...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

David Cullinane: ...it would come to the view that there was a deferential relationship. Does Ms McPhillips consider it acceptable that an Accounting Officer, one of her colleagues, would send a text message to the Garda Commissioner following the Garda Commissioner's appearance before the Committee of Public Accounts saying, "Good job"?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: I wish to be clear that we will get the information relating to yesterday's hearings. I did ask for two specific reports, one from the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office and one from An Garda Síochána relating to reporting structures to the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office within An Garda Síochána. I want to know who is responsible for what...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Oversight (23 May 2017)

David Cullinane: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has sought or received a copy of a 2008 report from a person (details supplied) into alleged financial irregularities and maladministration at the Garda Training College; if the report examined years in which the Secretary General in her Department held the position of chief Accounting Officer and when the Garda Commissioner was the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2019)

David Cullinane: The Commissioner states the matter has been referred to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. It is not appropriate, therefore, for us to comment on it and he is correct that he is not in a position to do so either. We noted that his previous correspondence contained a mistake that everyone accepts was inadvertent because he was not given prior notice of the issue and may not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: I do not know how many times I have asked the question. I will ask it again. The Commissioner says she first became aware of issues at the Garda Training College on 27 July 2015. She was obviously briefed on the extent of the issues. The question I asked was, when she was first briefed and became aware on 27 July, was she aware of actual irregularities or was she aware that there was the...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Feb 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 9: In page 5, line 37, to delete “as soon as practicable” and substitute “within 30 days”.I will be brief. Sinn Féin has concerns that the Garda sometimes can cause undue delays in the granting of information or data to GSOC investigators. The amendment proposes to replace the words "as soon as practicable" with "within 30 days". Its...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Oversight (23 May 2017)

David Cullinane: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the nature of a meeting that took place in 2008 between senior departmental officials and the then Garda Commissioner regarding the Garda Training College; if minutes, correspondence, an agenda or notes exist regarding the meeting; the persons who attended and the role of each in his or her respective organisation at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)

David Cullinane: We sought a lot of correspondence from An Garda Síochána and we have now received some from Mr.Nugent. This correspondence is, unfortunately, still coming in to us now, at the 11th hour. They know that we are up against the clock and that we have to get a report out. It strikes me that An Garda Síochána is waiting until the very last minute to give us the information we...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

David Cullinane: Go raibh maith agat. I welcome Mr. Harris and wish him well in his role. Unfortunately, we have had a high turnover of Garda Commissioners and Ministers for Justice and Equality, and much of that was down to cultural and organisational issues we had in an Garda Síochána, as I am sure Mr. Harris is aware. We are hoping the changes that were promised are being delivered, and some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: It is always worth the wait to come into this committee. I welcome the Garda Commissioner and his team. I join in the strong condemnations made by the Chairman and Deputy Jack Chambers in respect of last night's incident. I hope people will come forward if they have information and that the perpetrators of the crime will be brought to justice very quickly. I thank the Garda Commissioner...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (4 May 2017)

David Cullinane: .... On 6 July 2015, the executive director of human resources and people development delivered a report to the CEO entitled Summary of Issues Arising from the Reports and Discussions Held at the Garda College. I understand the purpose of the report was to prepare the CEO so that person could brief the Garda audit committee. Who was the executive director at the time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

David Cullinane: ..., and at crucial times when people should have been informed but were not everybody seems to say they are not sure, maybe it was reasonable when it was unreasonable. Mr. Waters has said that. The Garda Commissioner has accepted there were irregularities at the Garda Training College. She accepts that because it is in the interim audit report. Does Mr. Waters accept that there were...

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

David Cullinane: Yes, I am aware of all of that. Mr. O'Brien is not answering the question I am putting to him. He has made it clear that the HSE only triggered that process in terms of getting advice from An Garda Síochána in February 2015. From the report landing on the HSE's lap in 2012 up to February 2015, the reason for not publishing a report was not any advice from An Garda...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2019)

David Cullinane: ...as well as the enormous challenge of tackling gangs which cannot be understated, the reality is that this Government is not doing enough. The response, to say the least, has been lacklustre. The Garda has done some good work in recent times. We have seen drug seizures and arrests but the Garda is operating with one hand tied behind its back. It is confined by a lack of resources and...