Results 101-120 of 139 for gsoc speaker:Clare Daly

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

Clare Daly: ...that rest with the Garda, the Revenue Commissioners, the Defence Forces and other State bodies which are not open to proper scrutiny or freedom of information requests. It is not just a matter for GSOC. If the Minister was serious about freedom of the press and citizens' humans rights, those aspects would be examined as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (17 Oct 2018)

Clare Daly: ...did not have sufficient legislative power. A number of the 50 recommendations are, basically, common sense but the Minister said he wanted a new complaints body, while the commission recommends a renamed GSOC with the powers that body has long advocated for as necessary to do its job properly. This is precisely the point made by Charleton. The legislation has been headed up and we could...

Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: ...s utterances on reform and accountability are belied by the experience on the ground. We do not have proper oversight, and that is not only my view. Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring, the chairperson of GSOC, has demanded increased legislative powers supported by the justice committee precisely because we do not have proper oversight. We do not have an independent Policing Authority. A...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: ...integrity of the system and the public interest is very important also. The Tánaiste needed to have an independent external investigation so she sent that to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. That was three years ago; nothing happened. Why should we accept another review when the reviews that have been done made recommendations which have not been...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (8 May 2014)

Clare Daly: ...and minimise people's grave concerns and engaged in repeated attempts to denigrate those who tried to raise particular issues. In that context, I refer not just to Members of this House but also to the whistleblowers, GSOC and others. Two commissions of investigation are about to be established. There is potential for a third to come into play as a result of the findings of the Cooke...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: ...do for the two women. Does she not accept that the issues that were being raised were not for the two individuals? They had absolutely nothing to do with something that would end up going to GSOC. They were raising an issue which is a function of the authority, the performance by An Garda Síochána of its functions in terms of the classification of data relating to homicide....

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: ...running police operations in the history of the State, in an area deemed to be the most heavily policed in Europe, coincidentally in the Taoiseach's backyard, where more than 100 complaints to GSOC have been made, that the Taoiseach would agree this obviously should be the subject of an independent inquiry? Such an inquiry has been sought for a long time by national and international...

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Clare Daly: ...this, brought in legislation, it was not enough. The Minister has already accepted that the recommendations of the justice committee, which we released and which argued for a massive strengthening of the GSOC oversight and the role of the Policing Authority, should be looked at and addressed. We said that two years ago. If the Government had done it then, we might not be in the mess we...

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Clare Daly: ...at the top, but also throughout the middle ranks in order that a new broom and a new culture could be developed. That is and has been the job on hand, and none of the bodies the Taoiseach mentions - GSOC, the Policing Authority and so on - have been fit for purpose. His own Government has identified as much. I therefore genuinely appeal to the old Deputy Varadkar, when he was a...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Clare Daly: ...other options and the Government could have given them proper consideration. For example, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC, had no difficulty with issues of, say, national security policing being examined by GSOC or overseen by the proposed authority, which we would like, where national security policing impacts on the fundamental rights of individuals. The authority...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2016)

Clare Daly: ...the Tánaiste think is normal or okay? We have an enormous crisis of confidence inside An Garda Síochána, primarily and largely centred on the role of the Garda Commissioner. The civilian head of An Garda Síochána, GSOC and the courts are investigating these matters but the Tánaiste seems to be okay with delegating to others her legal responsibility for doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: ...in terms of Garda information, was leaked. There is a certain irony in the fact that the appropriate attention being put on the State's surveillance mechanism arose out of the circumstances where GSOC attempted to bring to justice the garda or State agent who was responsible for that violation. That is how the attention was focussed on this issue, and we felt that there was a certain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for Garda Inspectorate: Discussion (19 Oct 2016)

Clare Daly: ...the Garda? Is it the fact that there are now three oversight bodies? How would the inspectorate see its relationship with the Policing Authority and the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC? Some have said it is a bit cumbersome having three oversight bodies. Would it be preferable to marry them into one overarching organisation? I see a particular role for the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: ...on women in prison? I will raise briefly the systems in place in the Prison Service for protected disclosures. We will discuss the handling by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, of protected disclosures by gardaí under the next heading. With regard to protected disclosures for members of the Prison Service, of which there have been a number recently, is the...

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Clare Daly: ...evil to survive is for good men to stay silent and do nothing. There are deep cultural problems but they have to be tackled from the top. The Commissioner's intervention today around referring cases to GSOC was wholly inappropriate when that type of systemic abuse of the breath test could not possibly be down to individuals; it is a systems failure. It is about time we dealt with it.

Other Questions: Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (5 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: ...to know why the DPP decided not to prosecute. That should have been done well before now. I am glad the Minister is looking at it now, but to my mind that is a basic human right. For example, the GSOC referred a number of cases to the Director of Public Prosecutions in respect of the Corrib incidents, but not one of them was prosecuted and nobody got information about it. I attempted to...

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

Clare Daly: ...of the Commissioner could, on the other hand, be a retrograde step for Irish policing, and this scenario would create a semblance of independence and accountability without the reality, just as was done with the creation of GSOC in the past decade. This would be a disservice to Irish society and to the members of the Garda Síochána. I totally and one hundred percent agree with...

Industrial Relations (Members of the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: ...seem to be using that organisation as a vehicle for promoting themselves or something. It is certainly not being used to challenge management by any stretch. That was really vindicated at the time of the GSOC bugging scandals when the former Garda Commissioner, Mr. Martin Callinan, contacted the four Garda representative organisations and asked them to issue a statement condemning...

Report of the Fennelly Commission: Statements (12 Apr 2017)

Clare Daly: ...or do not read them - drawing a different conclusion. It is incredible, unbelievable stuff which amounts to mass ignorance, until it gets to the Holness case in Waterford. Let us remember, that was the first time GSOC initiated a criminal investigation. Three gardaí were convicted of assaulting a citizen. It was a very serious case in the course of which evidence was attempted to...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2019)

Clare Daly: All of these amendments concern giving GSOC officers the same power as gardaí when they are acting as coroner's officers. As the Minister has explained, the amendments are for circumstances where it is more appropriate for a GSOC officer to act as an aid to a coroner, for example, where gardaí might be suspected of involvement in a death. I am happy to support all of the...