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

Jack Chambers: Ms Feehily has said the Policing Authority had a meeting about the intelligence received. Is that the meeting at which they were on the public record or are they separate meetings?

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

Jack Chambers: We are taking a step back. The people who were uncovering the evidence and actually investigating the whole process were the two people who contacted the Policing Authority. I am not aware of anyone else who was actively pursuing PULSE system files at the time, apart from the two people who were actively involved and came before the committee. On a weekly basis they were uncovering new...

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

Jack Chambers: They had intelligence which the Policing Authority did not probe in a greater way. Does Ms Feehily accept that?

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

Jack Chambers: As such, the Policing Authority felt there was no need to probe it further.

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

Jack Chambers: Ms Feehily mentioned that the Policing Authority was trying to shine a light on issues. From my perspective and that of others on the committee, the people concerned had a torch of intelligence that they wanted to provide for the authority on which to engage. Their perception of the response of the authority is that they hit a brick wall. Despite the assurances given, there is a difference...

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

Jack Chambers: They have said they felt the Policing Authority let them down.

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

Jack Chambers: That is the same Garda delegation which, as Ms Feehily is aware, tried to get them to sign off on something retrospectively.

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

Jack Chambers: When did the authority become aware that pressure had been put on the analysts to sign off retrospectively on the report it had rejected?

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

Jack Chambers: The authority was aware.

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

Jack Chambers: That means the authority was aware of the pressure that was imposed on them.

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

Jack Chambers: I know, but that is the conclusion from what Ms Feehily has said. It is a big concern if the authority was aware of pressure that was imposed on the analysts to change, retrospectively, something the authority had rejected. Did the authority attempt to get clarification from them so that it could pursue the matter of the pressure that was brought to bear on them?

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

Jack Chambers: I want to ask Ms Feehily about what happened on 1 August 2017. The analysts were informed by a member of management that a member of the Policing Authority had made approaches to them. Who in the Policing Authority contacted and phoned Garda management about the approaches they made?

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

Jack Chambers: Is there a record of that?

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

Jack Chambers: I am just asking, for the purposes of transparency, who contacted whom. Can we just have the names of the people involved?

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

Jack Chambers: Is there no record of that?

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

Jack Chambers: It was referencing a contact over the phone from a member of the Policing Authority.

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

Jack Chambers: Let us take a step back to the time before the establishment of the Policing Authority and imagine this was a layer in the Department of Justice and Equality. If people approached the Department of Justice and Equality about a file that was submitted to it and about which they had concerns and someone from the Department contacted the Garda about the contact that had been made, there would...

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

Jack Chambers: We have a circular issue here whereby the authority was involved with informal contact. How then, in the interests of the two people who appeared before us, can it provide the level of transparency for them when they feel they were rejected? Procedures within the Policing Authority need to be reformed to ensure anyone who gives intelligence will believe it will be dealt with in such a way...

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

Jack Chambers: I am just saying a telephone call should not be seen as an official channel. The process should be more formal than that, particularly for an authority, and removed in terms of the need for regulatory oversight. I know that this is a procedural aspect, but when the authority will not meet people who wish to present matters to it, it should provide for the same distance and level of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (22 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: 99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to concerns held by the Garda youth diversion programme independent network, IGYD, regarding the future funding of the programmes following a call for proposal by the Irish Youth Justice Service; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that IGYD is of the view that the upcoming call...