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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Fleming: That issue is being dealt with in consultation with An Garda Síochána. Commissioner Harris has indicated that rather than establishing stand-alone operations in each of the 17 divisions, he wants one national approach which will involve training and guidance for police officers in each of the divisions. The structure will be based centrally within An Garda Síochána....

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have followed the matter for a year or two. The Department of Justice and Equality had approved the initiative, as had the Garda and the OPW. I am now told that the cost to the OPW, for what one would have thought was a minor issue, is quite high. I accept that the OPW has to do whatever it must and that people have different types of properties. I have been told that the OPW has done...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: It will help people get into round 3 who have had no involvement in the process up to that point. I have heard the complaint from members of the Garda reserve who felt they did the best they could but did not get past step 1 or step 2. Then they hear from their neighbour that they had got the garda up the road to fill in their form. Is there anything the Minister can do about this? I am...

Written Answers — Garda Vetting of Personnel: Garda Vetting of Personnel (22 Sep 2011)

Seán Fleming: ...if all recent appointments of junior hospital doctors who in the course of their work will have substantial unsupervised access to children and or vulnerable adults received vetting from the Garda Central Vetting Unit and if this is not the case to outline the provisions to allow persons to be without Garda vetting in view of the fact that arrangements are in place with the Health Service...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence (20 Jun 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...of housing during the period when an emergency arises. Perhaps the local authorities can have a role in this regard. One thing I wish to say, and I think most of us will know, is that the Garda has really stepped up its involvement in this issue in the past couple of years. I have referred several times to the example I know of in the case of every incident that happens in my area,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes. The minutes do not stack up. If the briefing was very brief, the garda who is the secretary did tremendous work in the set of minutes produced. They are so precise that great notes must have been taken or the person must have been given a document. Was any document presented? From what did the garda prepare the minutes? Would they have had contemporaneous notes? They were very...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Apr 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...and for the further elaboration in response to my opening statement. We will continue to treat stalking with the gravity it demands and we encourage all victims of stalking to report it to An Garda Síochána. Offences now carry potential sentences of up to ten years. Some of these offences had previously only carried sentences of five years but they were doubled and came into...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...there be some amendment on this issue. My questions are technical in nature and relate to the amendment rather than the broad sweep of the legislation. The Minister is amending section 91 of the Garda Síochána Act. What does this section talk about? I know the Minister might not have the answer here, but if we are amending section 91 of the Garda Síochána Act, it is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I would not make this point but I will put it to Ms O'Sullivan. If the numbers were cut by another 1,000 and the Garda just did things more efficiently, would it be as good a force then as it is today? I do not understand how the Garda can lose 1,000 members and its service is improving. Was it not well managed up to now? Could further better management, rostering and so forth compensate...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)

Seán Fleming: On the work programme, I wish to deal with one item of correspondence that arrived this morning, 13 July, from An Garda Síochána. It was not listed on the correspondence because it was received only this morning. The letter is from Mr. Joseph Nugent. I will read it out because it has not been published. It states:I know from coverage in the media in recent days and from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Career Breaks (15 Apr 2014)

Seán Fleming: 494. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí that have applied for the incentivised career break under the scheme available in An Garda Síochána in view of the fact that the closing date is the 31 of May 2014; the numbers that are expected to apply for this scheme; the arrangements in place from the 1 June to ensure that there are adequate Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...is from Ms Oonagh McPhillips, acting Secretary General in the Department of Justice and Equality, enclosing the governance framework agreement between the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána. We note this. I note from the back page of page 28 of that document that that agreement was signed by the acting Garda Commissioner, Dónall Ó Cualáin on...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ..., which is fine. The next item is the work programme, which is set for the next number of weeks. We are engaging with the education sector today and next week we will have representatives of An Garda Síochána. It is very important we contact An Garda Síochána to see if there has been any further progress on the audits that were ongoing when we considered the matters...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...so I suggest we hold it over to another day. I have not had an opportunity to read through it. It is too large to discuss today. Is it agreed to hold it over? Agreed. No. 2373 is from An Garda Síochána dated 5 September 2019 providing information requested by the committee at the meeting on 9 May 2019. There is some interesting information provided. We asked why there was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: ...on this issue and I note that, in one letter recently received, the correspondent expresses the belief this committee's handling of the correspondent's case should be investigated by the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation, as the correspondent considers the committee has gone out of its way to cover up for misappropriation and, as they term it, "inappropriation" of citizens' money. This...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...In one session members took up to 20 minutes instead of ten. That was because of the debate on what had happened at Jobstown. Because the event happened in 2015, was relevant to the deployment of Garda resources and staffing and directly related to the vote today, I let the debate continue. Others might question why we had a debate on what had happened at Jobstown, but it was an event...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...a number of allegations are made. If he believes the allegations, he should pursue the matter further through the courts. If he believes there are criminal actions, he should report them to the Garda. That is not our function. For our part and with his agreement, I propose that we forward the correspondence to the HEA for whatever action it deems appropriate. Beyond that, I suggest we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)

Seán Fleming: Therefore, it predates 2014 and is now in the hands of An Garda Síochána which is where we are leaving it. The committee is not the Garda ombudsman. The next item is No. 1160C, correspondence, dated 26 February 2018, received from Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, thanking the committee and the secretariat as she has stepped down from the committee. We shall note and publish the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...money is not the function of the Committee of Public Accounts, it is a function of the line committee in respect of the Estimate in the Department. Any cost to be incurred regarding Stepaside Garda station, staff moving there and so on will be incurred in 2018. That is a matter for the Committee on Justice and Equality to consider and approve as part of its discussion of Estimates for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...a response from the Minister. When we receive that we will advance it further. We will note that. No. 304C is correspondence received from an individual alleging misconduct by members of An Garda Síochána and a waste of public money by gardaí, the Judiciary and State-paid solicitors in another Department. I propose that the Clerk to the Committee advise the person to...