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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (21 Mar 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 265. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help that have been made but are awaiting approval in the south and north Lee areas in County Cork in each of the past six months in tabular form. [13213/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Data (21 Mar 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for tests at the Road Safety Authority test centre in Sarsfield Road, Cork; and the average waiting time. [13086/18]

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Ms Feehily and Ms Hall for attending this afternoon. I must apologise because I will have to depart for another engagement as soon as I finish my questions. First, I wish to deal with the initial public presentation of the homicide report, or document, as Ms Feehily has referred to it, in April. It is fair to say that it was an extraordinary episode when taken in the context of...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I do not disagree with that, but I take it that Ms Feehily is saying it was quite extraordinary that the Garda analysis service was not consulted.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Ms Feehily. During the course of the testimony I put it to Ms West whether the fact that they were not consulted could be an oversight and she responded that she was not sure she could conclude it was an oversight. I must say I am inclined to agree. Does Ms Feehily believe that it was an oversight or that it was something else?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Does Ms Feehily agree, given the testimony received here two weeks ago, that it is very clear that the senior gardaí who were present at the Policing Authority meeting were perfectly aware of the disquiet of the analysis service but presented the document in any event? The complaints and concerns had already been presented to them. Does Ms Feehily agree that they would have been aware...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is quite extraordinary. I appreciate that Ms Feehily has to be even-minded. However, she has said that, had the Policing Authority accepted the testimony given to it, it would have been misled and that she believes it was not an oversight. For any of us listening to her and the testimony we received two weeks ago, it is hard to conclude that there was not an attempt to railroad the...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In her opening statement Ms Feehily made reference to her own knowledge-----

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In her opening statement Ms Feehily stated:Returning to the homicide review, the position is that the authority has many sources of intelligence and information regarding this homicide review - perhaps more than Ms West and Ms Gavigan [it should be Galligan] realise - and has done a huge amount of work. That is quite a cryptic statement. Will Ms Feehily elaborate on it?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I obviously appreciate that Ms Feehily cannot go into the full details. However, is it fair to say it was not a communication made directly or officially by An Garda Síochána with the Policing Authority?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ms Feehily can answer as she sees fit. The context of this disclosure or intelligence was clearly the basis of disquiet and concern at what was happening.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In her opening statement, Ms Feehily placed considerable reliance on a distinction between what she has described as the fact and detail of the disquiet of Ms West and Ms Galligan and the content of their direct communication. That is a fine distinction to try and draw. I want to put several quotes from the committee meeting on 7 March with Ms West and Ms Galligan. Deputy Jack Chambers asked...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I want to put one more quote from that meeting. Deputy Clare Daly asked: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? Ms West responded:That was in the context of a management meeting I was part of. It was raised with me as part of a wider management meeting. Obviously, there...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Surely there is a distinction between correspondence from the Garda analysis service directly to the Garda Commissioner being referred to the Policing Authority and direct contact between Ms West and Ms Galligan and the Policing Authority. Surely those are distinct.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It seems there is something missing here or something, perhaps, I am not understanding. In the phone calls which Ms Feehily has described and has detailed to us, it sounds as though the sensitive details of this were not necessarily discussed. As I say, there is clearly a distinction between official correspondence to the Garda commission and then across to the Policing Authority and the...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Was it treated as fully confidential?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Was there no indication conveyed to the Garda of the fact that such correspondence had been received by the Policing Authority, whatever about the content of it and the correspondence being treated as fully confidential?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will finish on this.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am finishing on this. It seems Ms Galligan and Ms West felt let down. We can have differences of opinion on all of this. There is a clear distinction between those initial phone calls, which are information inquiries, etc., and the later correspondence. The later correspondence, which Ms Feehily stated is confidential, clearly was an escalation of a complaint and the detail of the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: My amendment obviously overlaps with that of Deputy Jim O'Callaghan and would have more or less the same effect. There should be a specific reference to an elected official. That is important. Unfortunately, there have been examples of corruption in a number of local authority areas so we need to be watchful. It is important to include the definition. I support the intent behind Deputy...