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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 262. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to confirm that if any member of the Defence Forces who was prescribed Lariam subsequently presents with symptoms, Lariam will immediately be discontinued, as mandated by a company (details supplied) in its summary of product characteristics. [15869/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 263. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 1,330 of 21 March 2017, the potential side effects of mefloquine (details supplied) listed in the boxed warning that comes with the drug that are considered by his Department to be minor and tolerable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15894/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I thank the team for appearing. We agree with many of the points made in the Commissioner's statement, including that what happened is unacceptable, raises serious issues about how the service is managed, is a collective failure and that people at all levels should be held to account. There is a contradiction between this and the Commissioner's other public statement in that she is the only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: It was not just an anonymous correspondence that the Commissioner received in 2014. She was also informed of this situation by the Medical Bureau of Road Safety. The Minister told us the other night that in detailed correspondence to her, An Garda Síochána told her that the Commissioner was satisfied that the correct procedures were in place. Does the Commissioner accept now that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The Commissioner is saying that the correction she put in place was the instruction to ensure that effective mechanisms were put in place, which I think was around March 2015.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: In the Commissioner's opening statement it states March 2015.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: Yet we know that three months after that, in the summer of 2015, the Medical Bureau of Road Safety informed the Commissioner that it had conducted a pilot survey which showed that the figures were 100% over-inflated. When the Commissioner found out in the summer of 2015, that her previous instruction of March 2015 had been ignored by the assistant commissioners and junior officers, what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: If he can, I would be happy to hear him. Is the Commissioner saying that she did not know about the results of the pilot survey which the Medical Bureau of Road Safety conducted? Is the Commissioner saying she had issued an instruction in March 2015 about this, that three months later, the Medical Bureau of Road Safety provided information which showed that the Commissioner's instruction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: Sorry, was the Commissioner aware or not aware of the results of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety pilot survey?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: Would the Commissioner not accept then that there is somewhat of a crisis of authority in her leadership if she is issuing instructions, evidence is produced to show that the Commissioner's instructions are being ignored, and yet nothing happens to people who ignore those instructions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: So the senior Garda management did not know. It was something the lads in the stores had an idea of it, but nobody decided to tell senior management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: Would that not indicate that there is a certain crisis of authority if there issues which the Garda management now say have caused a national crisis, an absolute scandal because of the scale of the numbers involved which are totally unacceptable, that nobody choose to ask questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: It was actually after the tests the Medical Bureau of Road Safety carried out which showed that the figures were 100% over-inflated. Professor Cusack was on the airwaves the other morning and he made it very clear that it is quite simple to monitor these devices. Before the Garda goes out, a record of the number is taken and the same is done when he comes back. The Garda introduced that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I do not want to rush the assistant commissioner but we are pushed for time. I know it was in November. The point I want answered is why it took until April 2016, six months later, and a full year from the time the Garda were told for the second time by the Medical Bureau of Road Safety of the discrepancies that the Garda decided to implement a paper account of the situation. Why did it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I know that. My question is the reason it took the Garda until April 2016 to implement the audit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I do not mean to be rude, but I am conscious of time, and I have to ask the team to try to answer the question they were asked. In November 2015, as Assistant Commissioner Mr. Michael Finn has already stated, the Garda had the information from the Medical Bureau of Road Safety audit. I know that. The question is why did the Garda wait until April 2016 even to put in place a paper audit,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: Why did the Garda wait six months to bring in the paper audit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: It could have come in overnight, because it came in overnight in April 2016. The Garda waited months before it had an IT solution. A paper solution could have been introduced. I can see that the Garda are not going to give me any more meat in their answers. I want to come back to Assistant Commissioner Mr. Michael Finn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: Could Mr. Twomey answer the question that was asked, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The Garda introduced a system in April, which was a temporary measure, so that it could bring in the following system. On the question of data, which is of major significance, I noted at the press conference, Assistant Commissioner Mr. Michael Finn spoke about checkpoints. He told us there was a figure of 400,000 checkpoints carried out during the period. How can we believe that figure,...