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Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: -----followed by the usual dosage of contrived outrage, something we see again this morning. The simple truth is GSOC did not furnish the report mentioned to me and I am advised that it did not furnish it to my departmental officials nor bring it to the Department's attention. GSOC, no doubt, can confirm this. Because of the background to the GSOC report, GSOC had no obligation under the...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...been there for many years and are coming into the light of day and becoming known through a variety of means. They need to be addressed. Mention was made of the matter in Waterford. Reading the GSOC report about Waterford, reference is made to recordings that the court did not admit. There is no indication in the report of the extensive nature of the difficulties that have now seen...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...the Garda Commissioner tried to prevent Sergeant McCabe giving evidence to the PAC. Then there was the scandal of allegations of bugging at the office of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. The Minister's response was to seek to put GSOC in the dock, aided by the Taoiseach, who misrepresented the Garda Síochána Act 2005 by implying that GSOC was the...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Niall Collins: ...that vein but for the fact that the independent constitutional office of the Comptroller and Auditor General did its work and reported coherently. We then had the issue on the alleged bugging of GSOC. The Minister immediately moved to turn the potential victim of a scandal into a villain. He put GSOC chairman Simon O'Brien into the dock. He brought in an outside company to...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I listened with some interest to Deputy Niall Collins. On one occasion, when matters were referred to GSOC, Deputy Niall Collins wanted to know why we did not have a commission of inquiry. When this matter is referred to a commission of inquiry, Deputy Niall Collins wants to know why it is not referred to GSOC. It does not matter what steps we take to deal with serious issues, a narrative...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Niall Collins: Why are we not having a commission of investigation to investigate the bugging of GSOC or the dossier produced by the whistleblowers? People died because of related issues, but we will not have a commission of investigation to examine that dossier. The public finds it difficult to reconcile all of this. The Minister did not indicate why he was circumventing GSOC with regard to the policy...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Niall Collins: On the penalty points issue, the whistleblowers were at fault, while in the bugging of GSOC, the chairman, Mr. Simon O'Brien, was at fault.

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Niall Collins: The Garda Commissioner is gone and the whistleblowers and GSOC have been blamed. It always seems to be somebody else rather than the Minister.

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...to do through all of the other crises - to set up a commission of investigation. Within hours the presented narrative had begun to unravel. We discovered that a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, report published last June had clearly identified the Garda practice of recording outgoing and incoming calls. In other words, this news was not new. At the time the...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Niall Collins: GSOC reported in 2013 and the Attorney General set up a working group in November of that year. The Garda Commissioner advised the Department of this by way of letter sent by courier over 16 days ago. Are we to believe the Minister knew about none of these events when, at the same time, a garda can pull alongside Deputy Mick Wallace at the Five Lamps, wag his finger at him for allegedly...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...The Minister sacrificed the confidential recipient because he raised the most alarming suggestions about the Minister's demeanour when it came to the whistleblowers. He rubbished the competence of GSOC, the body supposed to oversee the Garda, when it came to the serious question of the bugging of GSOC. He now tries to claim that he is the great reforming Minister who wants an independent...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Clare Daly: ...a duty to tell him about Deputy Wallace's non-event, but now he is saying the Commissioner did not have a duty to tell him about the most recent issue and he does not have a problem with that. He berated GSOC for not telling him about the bugging. He listed every piece of legislation he could think of. Today he devoted several minutes of his speech to explaining why GSOC did not have to...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...of law in this State. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil is the order of the day. The Minister wants us to believe several claims. First, that nobody told him about the content of the June 2013 GSOC report, even though it has been in the public domain for almost a year. Even if he did know about it, the Minister and his Department did not consider it their responsibility to...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: ...General on Monday evening to discuss these matters. I know there are reports that I knew of the system of recording in Garda stations last year, but this is not the case. Reference has been made, for example, to a case investigated by GSOC of a member of the public who was assaulted by members of the Garda Síochána in Waterford. GSOC, I have since learnt, reported on this on...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Niall Collins: ...leaders were receiving the briefing yesterday, the facts of the Waterford case were in the public domain for weeks, months and years. The Waterford case was one of the first high-profile prosecutions taken by GSOC following an investigation of a complaint in which serving members of the Garda Síochána were convicted and imprisoned. It is not credible that the Minister did not...