Results 81-100 of 138 for gsoc speaker:Clare Daly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: ...Why does the Minister not think the adequate beefing up of the Policing Authority to make it genuinely accountable is sufficient? He thinks the report is fine but there is nothing new around the GSOC recommendations. There is nothing new in a lot of the report, which is not a criticism of it. It is a pulling together of ideas which have been out there for a very long time. It pulls...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Investigations (25 Mar 2014)

Clare Daly: ...for the steps they have taken, or intend to take, to investigate the unlicensed transmission identified by the reported broadcast of a UK GSM cellular ID in the Middle Abbey Street area near the GSOC headquarters in the Verrimus report. [13785/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Oversight (11 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: ...into account the recommendations in both reports calling for the repeal of section 106 of the GSA Act 2005; and if he will finally and immediately repeal section 106 by which the independence of GSOC is compromised. [6731/14]

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: ...interests are intrinsically linked and a proper independent scrutiny is prohibited because of that ministerial block. When the heads of this Bill were announced there was a huge welcome for the headline that GSOC would be given the power to investigate the Commissioner, that it would be independent and autonomous. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties and many of the other human...

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

Clare Daly: ...". He tells us he does not have any animosity towards Garda McCabe, but he spent most of his contribution trying to undermine the latter, in much the same way as he hold us he was a great supporter of GSOC while every action he has taken has been either to accuse the commission of not fulfilling its statutory duty or an attempt to undermine it at every turn. The Minister spent a great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Clare Daly: ...to do their job properly because of that lack of co-operation. Is the Commissioner aware of that situation? What steps has she taken to address the deficit and what could be viewed as the frustration of GSOC complaints because of lack of Garda co-operation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: ...last night in the debate on the appointment of the new Garda Commissioner. I refer to the Bill we recommended as part of our 2016 report that would give the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, more powers. Where is the Bill that was promised 18 months ago? The Minister keeps telling us he has been pushing it, but we have not seen it yet. I also refer to the business...

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: ...for. That is not proper oversight and scrutiny. A review was initiated last year when the media suddenly woke up to this issue when the phone records of some members of the media were being requested by GSOC. Those people were involved in criminality and GSOC was investigating criminal behaviour on the part of gardaí. That is when the media got interested. When are we going to...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: ...left. It sums up the situation we are in where the overall approach would seem to be characterised by broken promises, diluted reforms and a careful media strategy. It is also summed up in the GSOC Bill and Deputy Wallace made many points in regard to the detail. It improves the situation for GSOC a little but the Government could have done much more. I will not repeat the points but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Clare Daly: ...domain at the end of annual reports and all the rest of it. I do not know why the Commissioner could not tell us how many protected disclosures she has received, as distinct from those which have gone to GSOC.

Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (22 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: ...to believe that what the Commissioner states in public and what she does in private are two entirely different matters. Leaving this matter open or sending it to Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, will not resolve the issues. The Tánaiste has the transcripts and the documentation in her possession. I want to know if the Tánaiste has read them. If not, why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)

Clare Daly: ...the current scenario with respect to the handling of protected disclosures. It is clearly a growing area in which the witnesses have been involved. What is the average timescale being looked at for GSOC to assess and come to a conclusion with a protected disclosure? I know they can be broad in range but what is the rough timeline? What kind of co-operation is being received from An...

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

Clare Daly: .... Why would the media then bother having to engage in surveillance if they could get the information anyway? I do not think it is the complainant. Who has an interest in conducting surveillance on GSOC? Mr. O’Brien has said seven people had access to the commission’s secret report which he fears might end up with the media. Was the report in electronic format? Were...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Clare Daly: ...of the force when she was actually in direct receipt of 14 letters outlining precisely the situation. She has been the subject of a detailed section 41 complaint on which the Minister has been briefed. We are awaiting GSOC's finding. She has lost the support of the ranks of the force by intervening in a partisan way in their legitimate pay claim with threats of martial law. Why has the...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Clare Daly: ...a duty to tell him about Deputy Wallace's non-event, but now he is saying the Commissioner did not have a duty to tell him about the most recent issue and he does not have a problem with that. He berated GSOC for not telling him about the bugging. He listed every piece of legislation he could think of. Today he devoted several minutes of his speech to explaining why GSOC did not have to...

Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (1 Oct 2015)

Clare Daly: ..., we know that the court was not given evidence of the perpetrator's previous convictions. The Garda did not give that information to the court, so the court made the decision without it. GSOC is carrying out a public investigation in respect of this area into 59 admissible complaints of a criminal character, yet one of the policemen who is under investigation has been promoted. One...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Oct 2014)

Clare Daly: ...are exactly as they were, and I will deal with some of those issues. I apologise to the Minister of State and to Deputy Collins for being late but I was in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, dealing with my own complaint, which is in the public domain and therefore we do not need to be secretive about it. That complaint stems back almost 20 months - almost two years...

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Clare Daly: .... She was the second death from heroin in Athlone in the past two years, the same two years it has been since Garda whistleblower Nick Kehoe went to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, to complain about the manner in which the investigation into his protected disclosure about Garda involvement in that very same heroin trade was being handled by the now acting...

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: ...in the context of accountability, with people inside An Garda Síochána putting their necks on the line and not getting support from the agencies in this State. Deputy Flanagan is the Minister. If GSOC is saying it, the whistleblower is saying it and people in this House are saying it, then a lot more needs to be done than is the case at present. I think the Minister should...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceapacháin Bhreithiúnacha) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment to the Constitution (Judicial Appointments) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: ...has had. Ultimately, a judge is a person and what makes him or her different are the powers he or she has on becoming a judge. It is interesting that in a paper review of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, - not of the surveillance and who was responsible but of GSOC's handling of the recent situation - the Government has just happened to choose to appoint a judge....