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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: -----and the purpose of her call and that it related to concerns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: It was in advance. Despite the missing report, which the Garda never gave to the Policing Authority or which something happened to so it never went to the Policing Authority, the Policing Authority was aware in advance of the April meeting that when the gardaí publicly gave information to it that the report was from the team in the analysis service and the ordinary gardaí in it, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Based on my experience with it, I am very sure the message was relayed. We put it to An Garda Síochána that it gave information to the Policing Authority that was probably not correct. It is also true to say that the Policing Authority knew that when the information was given. That is something we will take up with it when it comes back to us after the recess. I was a little bit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Was this on 16 May?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Had Ms West sent a letter to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: For the purpose of accuracy, Ms West had sent a five-page letter to senior Garda management. I assume that went to the Garda executive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Two assistant commissioners, Dr. Singh, and the data analysis unit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Two assistant commissioners and the Garda executive received that letter - and it is interesting that the Policing Authority got it also. Other than the acknowledgment on 19 July saying "Thanks but no thanks" from the Policing Authority, there was no actual written-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Okay. Ms West was told on 1 August by a member of Garda management that the Policing Authority was aware of her approaches and so on. Did Ms West find this strange?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: That is exactly the note I have written down for myself; essentially it was telling tales. Someone in the Policing Authority had taken it upon themselves to not telephone Ms West - she has never received any telephone calls from the Policing Authority - but to telephone someone in Garda management to tell tales on Ms West along the lines "Do you know that your assistant head of analysis has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Was this Ms West and one other person, or was it Ms West and two others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Was it an official scheduled management meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: I thank Ms West for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: My last point then is about the 12 May contact and the phone call received by Ms West. She discovered then that the information had not been passed on to the Policing Authority. The report had not been given. Nearly a month after Ms West had produced the report for the Policing Authority Ms West was told by telephone that the authority had not received it. Ms West offered that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: We know the organisation was in possession of Ms West's doubts and her very strong disagreement with the report furnished in her name. We know the organisation had that information when it went to the Policing Authority. Can Ms West say with certainty that the individuals who imparted that information publicly, at the Policing Authority in April and in June, had direct, personal knowledge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: There was the letter from 11 May.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Prior to that it is not. Definitely for the June meeting that would have been, but for the April meeting the witnesses cannot say 100%. That is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: Would the relationship between civilians and the uniformed gardaí be very different from what Ms West experienced in the PSNI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: I thank the witnesses. It has been incredibly helpful to the committee's work to have them here today.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: As it is International Women's Day, I genuinely welcome the diligence with which the Government is prioritising the referendum on repeal. I am sorry that it has not had the same diligence bringing forward mandatory inquests in relation to maternal deaths. As it is International Women's Day and the Tánaiste did not answer Deputy Michael McGrath's points about the powerful, explosive...