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- Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Jan 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I commend my colleague Deputy Mac Lochlainn on his introduction of this Bill, which adds our party's voice to the demand that Government regulate the charity sector. I agree with the Minister of State that, undoubtedly, the majority of charities act properly. Even in those cases in which board members or executives have been found wanting, the staff providing the services within those...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Jan 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: It was December.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the Commissioner and his colleagues to the committee. We have heard from him on the substantive issue of the striking out of fixed penalty notices. Would it be fair for me to summarise his position as follows? Of the notices issued, discretion was exercised in 2.57% of cases, a minimal number. Where there were difficulties, question marks or inconsistences in respect of those,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: To reach the rank of superintendent, one would have some years’ service.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: The individuals who were confused or even a bit sloppy in respect of the guidelines which were in place would not have been rookies or new recruits but experienced officers. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Yet they would have been confused in respect of their authority or jurisdiction to write off penalty points.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I am not asking the Commissioner to be a mind reader. That would even be beyond his pay grade.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: That is another day’s work. I would have thought, having given consideration to these matters and in light of the Assistant Commissioner O’Mahoney’s work, that the Commissioner would have established why it was these officers at superintendent level thought that they could either choose knowingly to step outside the process or were just confused as regards it. I do not...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to focus on the issue of the officers concerned acting outside of their jurisdiction. In his opening remarks, the Commissioner mentioned that disciplinary action had been taken in respect of a number of officers. He also has made reference to those files with the Director of Public Prosecutions. However, I was interested that he also stated that some note or notification had been...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: How many of those advices have been issued?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Commissioner have a precise figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I am happy to take a break for ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I also am happy to continue in my train of thought.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Commissioner have a more precise figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: So it is 39 officers who had acted outside of the process, as the Commissioner has put it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: The Commissioner has made his position clear as regards the handing over of information from the PULSE system to third parties and we may revert to that issue shortly. Notwithstanding the fact that it was not 300 per day but 30 per day in terms of cancellation of these notices, in view of the fact that seasoned and senior officers with experience and so on were stepping outside of agreed...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Commissioner not appreciate that the nub of this issue in the public mind is the concern that was raised at the outset by Deputy Nolan? I refer to the view or perhaps more correctly stated, the worry, that whereas the law applies to the 95.45% of persons who get these notices, one has the 5% who enjoy a particular status or a particular relationship with a particular garda and to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: ---- the rules do not apply.