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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: I do not know whether the Minister is playing dumb or he just does not get it. He will not escape behind this and this will haunt him unless he starts dealing with it properly. The Minister states GSOC needs time. It is the fifth year since this complaint was made. It involves gardaí involved in the heroin trade in the Minister's constituency. One young man has died - possibly...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: Nobody is asking the Minister to interfere with anything. It was pointed out to the Minister more than a year ago that the investigations have concluded. The Minister for Justice and Equality calls these organisations to account. It is a fact that An Garda Síochána breached existing protocols with GSOC and refused to hand over files for five months. It is a fact that An Garda...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: We, as much as our colleagues on the justice committee, have given this massive, careful and due consideration and I agree with the points made by Deputy Wallace that it has to be withdrawn. What was put out there, with absolute fanfare, as the supposedly greatest radical reform in appointments to the Judiciary in the history of the State has turned out to be an absolute and utter debacle in...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 25:In page 12, line 25, to delete “each of subsections (2) and” and substitute “subsection”. There might be an error in those two because if memory serves me correctly, our amendments Nos. 25 and 26 are consequential on our proposal that the chairman would be elected by the members of the commission, rather than appointed by the Public...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: Taking on board some of the points made by Deputy O'Callaghan, we will press our amendments Nos. 25 and 26. I want to concentrate on the last points concerning our amendment No. 38 and its intention to delete that lay members of the commission would have knowledge of the "processes and procedures for making appointments to public office or to senior positions in public or private sector...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: I am not going to labour the points. The issues at stake here are about the chair of the commission. We were trying to allow the members of the committee themselves to decide the chair, removing that function from the Public Appointments Service, PAS. On the section the Minister referred to, I will not repeat all of the points made earlier but it is expertise in effective board management...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 30:In page 13, to delete lines 1 to 11.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the repeated delay in publication of the coroners' (amendment) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22651/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Investigations (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 10 May 2018, if the report (details supplied) will be made available to persons who had co-operated with the investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22652/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commissions of Investigation (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 152. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports in respect of the Farrelly commission that some families at the centre of the scandal are threatening to withdraw their co-operation in view of the adversarial approach being adopted by the commission. [22857/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Superannuation Schemes (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the State is estimating that the trial alone for the current pensioners of IASS will take up to 12 weeks and has cost nearly €1.5 million already to bring it to this stage; if he will request the SCA to engage in mediation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22836/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. It must be incredibly frustrating that so long after the inspectorate's original report, only 45% of the recommendations have been fully implemented. This kind of carries on from the inspectorate's previous very insightful reports on overall policing needs and targets. A minority of what it is recommending is being implemented. Does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: The Garda national protective services bureau has been set up and localised and so on. Is that purely for investigative purposes? What is the difference between that and the multi-agency specialist child centres? Should there not be an overlap there, or would the bureau not be envisaged to be in a Garda station setting? I know it certainly should not look like a Garda station, but what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: The Garda would be based there as well. The Garda would conduct the interviews and be based there as well. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: That is regrettable since Mr. Toland recommended it so long ago and things have moved on so much. Of the 28 divisions, a total of four are operating with the national protective services bureau. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: Does that apply in all 28 divisions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: Is Mr. Toland confident the target is deliverable? Is the Garda on target?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: What dialogue has the Garda Inspectorate had in pursuing the implementation of the report? At what level does the Garda Inspectorate engage? How regular is that contact? I am somewhat shocked but only in the sense that nothing has changed by this. It seems 12 divisions out of 28 did not even bother to reply to the inspectorate. That is scandalous but it would indicate that perhaps...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: Are the 24 new recommendations altogether new? Has time moved on so much that some of the original recommendations are outdated? In that context, we had a discussion last week about the growth in online behaviour and the concerns of the inspectorate about the lack of monitoring. I am unsure whether the inspectorate was involved in the digital age of consent issue. Did anyone ask for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: I have two final questions. It is probably an unfair question – if it is Mr. Toland should say so – but it comes from my experience. Perhaps it is not about apportioning blame. It relates to liaison between the Garda and Tusla. From what Mr. Toland has said, it continues to be problematic. I do not mean to overstate that. I understand that at the top level those involved...