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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The point I made about youth unemployment and youth employment was that if we extend people's working lives, 3,000 more people will stay in work each year, which means there will be 3,000 fewer vacancies at the other end. There is a consequence in terms of employment and unemployment, depending on the figures. That might have been one of the reasons the retirement age was changed from 70 to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the witnesses for coming in. They have tried to persuade us or impress upon us that no event triggered their decision in 2012 to have a sweep of their offices. I am not convinced. Nor am I convinced that nothing happened in 2013 to precipitate a repeat of that sweep. What was found in the sweep in 2012? If nothing was found, it points to incompetence by the company that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will just finish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Have they made any attempt to contact the journalist who published this story to allow them provide an answer with regard to some of the parts of the document which, they have stated, will be misrepresentative of the decision they took in the first place to have a sweep?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank Mr. O'Brien. I also have a few technical questions. Was the sweep confined to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission's building or was there a further examination of Mr. O'Brien's own home or his personal mobile phone? If Mr. O'Brien perceived a threat against the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, surely he would also examine his own telephones or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My final question is on a different matter, as I was trying to group them separately. Mr. O'Brien has ruled out categorically An Garda Síochána misconduct. How can he do this, or how can he rule out anyone, if he does not know from where or whom the threat came?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My final question pertained to how Mr. O'Brien had categorically ruled out An Garda Síochána misconduct. I do not know how he can rule out categorically any agency in Ireland or elsewhere or any individual because GSOC has been unable to identify from whom or where the threat came.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 770. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 [8351/14]

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What about Fine Gael's history?

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is no faith in the Minister.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What about the Minister?

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to share time with an Teachta McDonald.

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I, like other Members of the House, have sat through two long committee hearings on the matter already and a session of statements in the Dáil Chamber on the possible surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission's offices in Capel Street. In all of that period - there was another four-hour committee meeting today - I have become more and more convinced that the...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister's time will be up soon enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In the Minister's first statement to the Dáil on the matter of the surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission by people, as yet unidentified, he failed to outline the fact that GSOC had launched a public interest investigation. The Minister also failed to disclose to the Dáil the reasoning behind the launching of that investigation. At the same time, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To clarify, the two questions are linked. Both the Garda Commissioner and the chairman of GSOC, Simon O'Brien, have said the same thing, although Mr. O'Brien tried to backtrack from his statement when he was at the committee last week. The reason the investigation was initiated is that the Commissioner had access to a draft report GSOC was preparing and a paragraph in that report was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A definitive answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On that point, it would be worthwhile to go back over the whole meeting because some of the questions I asked are also missing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to ask brief factual questions. Has the company that carried out the first sweep of the GSOC offices in 2007 been ever named? It has gone out of business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is fine. My second question - I am now going over old ground but I am taking a different approach. Extracts from the Verrimus report have been published in bits and pieces in a newspaper by the journalist John Mooney. I asked the GSOC commissioner whether it would not have been better to publish the report or give the committee access to it rather than to read selected leaks?