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Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I stand in this House today to record once again my solidarity with the long-suffering people of Gaza and Palestine. Let me state in the most unequivocal manner that what we witnessed on our television screens from the Gaza Strip last Monday was state-sponsored murder involving the massacre of 60 Palestinian adults and children. It was a crime against humanity. The almost simultaneous...

Topical Issue Debate: Location of Victims' Remains (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Tánaiste for attending. I hope he will join me in expressing alarm and exasperation at the revelations contained in recent correspondence from the State Pathologist in the North of Ireland to the lawyers representing the family of Aidan McAnespie, who was shot dead by a British soldier on 21 February 1988 as he was making his way to his local GAA club grounds at Aughnacloy...

Topical Issue Debate: Location of Victims' Remains (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We must establish the when, the who and the where, that is, when this was done, who carried it out and under whose direction and where, and in what way, was Aidan's rib cage section disposed of? Is it retrievable or is it irretrievably destroyed? That is unclear from the letter from Dr. Lyness, which, more than 30 years after Aidan's murder at Aughnacloy at the Tyrone-Monaghan border has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I remind members to switch off their mobile telephones as they interfere with the recording equipment. Apologies have been received from Senator Frances Black. We will go into private session briefly to deal with housekeeping matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The purpose of the meeting is to meet the Garda Inspectorate to discuss a number of issues, including progress in the review of Garda oversight and accountability since the joint committee's report and recommendations in December 2016, the inspectorate's recent report on responding to child sexual abuse and the views of the inspectorate on the Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2017,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Mr. Toland for his submission. Deputies have indicated earlier the order in which they intend to ask questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is not often said by the Deputy that he is impressed. The witnesses should take that and pocket it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: And the Deputy does.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I enjoyed that - "Dog in the fight" and "skin in the game."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Mr. Toland said a number of things that most certainly struck a chord with me and, I am sure, committee members. The five-month delay in responding is interesting. The last correspondence the committee received from the highest office in An Garda Síochána was exactly five months after we had sought the information and, at that, it was anaemic. I can think of no other word to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will be addressing it next week with officials from the Department. The Ministers were not available. We will also be addressing it with the Policing Authority, representatives of which will be coming to engage in further scrutiny. I welcome Mr. Toland's further remarks on the subject.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Did he also support the Deputies getting back out again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the delegates for being patient with us. Deputy Mick Wallace raised with them the recommendation made in the inspectorate's report on multi-agency specialist child centres. Mr. Toland referred to two pilot projects to be undertaken on foot of that recommendation. Was the inspectorate specific about the projects to be undertaken? Was it just a recommendation that there be two or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If I could add to that, a pilot project is most certainly required for a significant population catchment with a city base. However, I do not know if we would be able to extrapolate all of the critical information if both pilot projects were city based. Different circumstances and realities apply in rural Ireland. I have in mind travel time from various locations. People in a city...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will each centre deal with all of the requirements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Mr. Toland's response indicates there will be a smaller number of such centres than I had anticipated on the basis of having two centres in the pilot. The number will be small, relatively speaking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I had not picked up on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I had intended asking a question on that issue but Mr. Toland indicated in an earlier reply that such an option was available. We have only two members left standing, as it were, because of other business in the House. I thank Mr. Toland, Ms Shields and Mr. Hume for attending today and being so forthright in their replies to the committee. I reiterate my apology with regard to earlier...

UK Withdrawal from the European Union: Statements (24 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We are just a month from the second anniversary of the British decision to leave the European Union. Despite the consistent interventions of political parties, businesses, academics, and civic engagement groups from north and south of the Border, it is a damning indictment of the current British Tory Government and its partners in the DUP that we are no closer to even an interim arrangement...