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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: No. I refer to recent reports that appeared in the media. If the witnesses are not aware of it, then they are not aware of it. I am just asking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: It is to do with training of new recruits and people being interned there beyond hours as a collective punishment for the misbehaviour of one individual.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: In terms of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: I take it that the Policing Authority would not approve of the type of activity I outlined earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: Will Ms Feehily comment on the fact that the decision on that was taken by someone promoted into the job by the Policing Authority, even though there were questions previously about his activity in being answerable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: As a result of that promotion, the person ended up there. I shall now turn to some of the other matters that were raised earlier and by the two witnesses who were here last week. When Deputy Brophy asked whether it was the Policing Authority's opinion that it had been specifically misled by An Garda Síochána or if it was just an oversight, Ms Feehily said "I do not think so". A...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: At the time Ms Feehily did not believe she was being misled. Does she accept now that she was being misled?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: Can Ms Feehily think of any credible explanation - other than for the purposes of deliberately misleading - why a document prepared under protocol by the senior professional analyst in advance of a meeting and which had a heading to the effect that it was for the Policing Authority was not handed over? When did the authority find out about the report's existence, and that a document had been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: I am not asking about that report. I am asking about the evidence that was heard in public here. The deputy assistant analyst gave evidence to this committee that she had prepared a professional report for the Policing Authority on 11 April and found out on 12 May that it had not been handed over to the authority. When did the authority find out about the existence of that document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: That is a different report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: When the authority did not get it and subsequently got a telephone call from the person who compiled that report, would it not have been the most logical thing to say, "That is great. We must ask for the person's opinion on this."?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: Does Ms Feehily accept that this is clearly not their viewpoint now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: Ms Feehily has made the point that the evidence they gave here last week was clearly very powerful. She talks about it speaking to issues of culture and speaking out, which it most certainly does. However, she then appears to downplay it a little and says that it is an employment issue. She said the authority would be conflicted if it got involved with factions. To be honest, I found that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: Is it Ms Feehily's evidence that the head of their unit who was present at those meetings did not articulate sufficiently the problems at the professional end of the analysis being undertaken? One of the powerful points made by Ms West last week was her statement that if she was in a position where she was made aware of people who wanted to tell her something - individuals who were uniquely...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: They were not asking for Ms Feehily to sort out a workplace grievance. In her opening statement, Ms Feehily spoke about this being an employment matter and she stated that, therefore, the authority was excluded from involvement. I do not accept that. They did not bring to the attention of the authority for action any allegations about the manner in which they were being treated. They did...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: That is interesting. Ms Feehily also said in her opening statement that there was very little of substance that they said that the authority did not already know about. I find that difficult to understand. Very concerning evidence was given about people who remained at risk potentially through 2017, mainly domestic violence victims. In saying that there was nothing of substance that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: Why then did it take until February of this year for a working group to be established to deal with this issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: Much of that was highlighted by the two women who appeared before the committee and flagged it in their initial report in November 2016. This is March 2018. If the authority had taken on board their information and brought it to the attention of the Minister in the course of the last year, we could have been where we are now a year ago. That is the point. They raised the issue with their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Clare Daly: Which member of the Policing Authority telephoned senior management in August 2017 to inform them that these women had made a complaint?