Results 101-120 of 143 for gsoc speaker:Mick Wallace

Adjournment Debate: Garda Reports (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...;300 per week and the other gets nothing. Every effort has been made to hound them out of their jobs. It is two years since Mr. Harrison tried to get a proper hearing and he has only had one proper meeting with GSOC. GSOC requested Mr. Kehoe's file after a poor internal Garda investigation. The Garda was given 30 days to deliver it but still has not done so. Ms Nóirín...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...granted judicial powers of compellability with regard to witnesses and the production and preservation of evidence and physical powers of entry and inspection; the reason terms of reference for the GSOC paper review do not request inquiries to be conducted to identify the source of any covert surveillance, do not allow for consideration of the role if any of the Garda Commissioner, rogue...

Other Questions: Corrib Gas Field (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...called again for an urgent and comprehensive independent inquiry into the policing of the Corrib gas project. Will the Minister finally bow to political public pressure and order an independent GSOC inquiry under section 106 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 or will he wait until the matter escalates into another full-blown wholesale fiasco as he did with the penalty points and...

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

Mick Wallace: ...commission received or sought unequivocal and categorical assurances from the Minister and the Garda Síochána as to whether any authorised or lawful covert surveillance has been authorised on the GSOC or any part thereof since its creation in 2007?

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...Síochana Ombudsman Commission. The organisation is still seriously underfunded. It still bears all the hallmarks of an organisation that was designed to fail. The Taoiseach talked about giving GSOC power to investigate the Commissioner and then the Government introduced a veto for the Minister for Justice and Equality. Why did the Taoiseach tolerate his backbencher and former...

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

Mick Wallace: ...or electronic surveillance found. He repeated that three times. There is an apparent need for definitive proof. Was that standard of proof imposed by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, or the Minister? With regard to the anomaly-----

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (25 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...has been significantly transformed" and lists, as an example, the new whistleblowing mechanism under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 now permitting a serving garda to make a protected disclosure to GSOC for investigation. Although investigation by an independent body such as GSOC is an improvement on the internal investigations preferred by An Garda Síochána and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Misconduct Allegations (20 Oct 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...Assistant Commissioner was involved with the other garda. It beggars belief that the Commissioner would make that decision. Zero tolerance is what the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, says it is getting from the gardaí in trying to address one of the cases. In terms of the other one, it has been an unmitigated cover-up for a long time in regard to drugs in...

Committee Report on Garda Oversight and Accountability: Motion (2 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...not make any sense for someone in an inspectorate capacity to have to give notice of a visit. I would like to address a couple of the recommendations. One of the recommendations states:Enhanced powers for GSOC in relation to reviewing investigations. In unsupervised investigations, a complainant has a right to have GSOC review the investigation. However, the outcome stands. That...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...not sought or received confirmations or assurances from the Army and gardaí regarding an assessment as to whether authorised or non-authorised surveillance took place with regard to the bugging of GSOC's offices; No. 18 - he eventually ordered a weak review by Mr. Justice Cooke but gave him no judicial powers and again bypassed the Commission of Investigations Act 2004; No. 19 - the...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...and the Garda Síochána. The JPCs should feed into the board, and given that they would be answerable to the independent police board, it is expected that we would see more of an appetite for engaging, from both sides. The reforms of GSOC contained in our Bill recognise that its remit was always intended to be investigatory, rather than one of review and oversight. As the United...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...on Monday with some of these people. We are introducing a Private Members' Bill to improve how the policing system works and with regard to holding it to account. We asked for a meeting with GSOC. I wish to rehearse some of the points discussed at the meeting in order to put them on the public record. The special report states that things could be better and that the commission could...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (19 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...Charles Flanagan, had received assurances from the United Kingdom that nothing was going on, even after GCHQ's oversight body had found it had been in breach of the law. I, too, think that before GSOC can look at anyone's phone, it should have to go before a court. However, as we have argued before in this Chamber with the Minister and her predecessor, Deputy Alan Shatter, so too should...

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

Mick Wallace: ...of law in this State. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil is the order of the day. The Minister wants us to believe several claims. First, that nobody told him about the content of the June 2013 GSOC report, even though it has been in the public domain for almost a year. Even if he did know about it, the Minister and his Department did not consider it their responsibility to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (28 Sep 2016)

Mick Wallace: The chairperson did not paint the same rosy picture that the Minister has painted. Sadly, by way of a couple of examples, GSOC has waited two years on documents from the whistleblowers, Nicky Kehoe and Keith Harrison, after asking for them. The documents in respect of one of them have eventually arrived. The chairperson says in public that she supports whistleblowers. I ask the Minister...

Other Questions: Corrib Gas Field (30 Apr 2014)

Mick Wallace: We can talk about the cost of it - we would all prefer if there were no costs - but that is a separate issue. GSOC is currently involved in a section 98 investigation into the delivery of alcohol to Belmullet Garda station in 2007. Section 106 was drafted to address the precise type of systemic policing issues relating to practices, policies and procedures that have arisen in Corrib. Rank...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...Act provided that the Minister shall establish by regulation a code of ethics, including conduct and practice for members of An Garda Síochána following consultation with the Garda Commission, GSOC and the then Irish Human Rights Commission and having regard to European standards. Neither the current nor any previous Minister ever did this. It is a major problem. We have never...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...an investigation into this alleged conflict of interests. There has not been a word of that since. I wonder where it is. Following its investigation into the matter, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, asked for disciplinary procedures to be taken against them. Who did Nóirín O'Sullivan appoint to look after it? Yes, the very same assistant...

Other Questions: Penalty Points System (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...will be introduced in the context of certain aspects of policing. I apologise for not being present earlier and for missing the Minister's reply to an earlier question. Will he confirm whether GSOC has direct access to the PULSE computer system? It may have been granted such access but I have not heard whether that is the case. Does the Minister have any intention of publishing the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...rather than on protection. It goes without saying that IHREC must be adequately funded and resourced if it is to be given new duties. We often give extra powers to bodies, as with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, for example, but if we do not resource them adequately, those powers cannot be used.