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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: My question to the acting Garda Commissioner was whether he believes it is credible that senior management did not know about this, despite the fact that it went on for years. "Yes" or "No"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: It relates to the fact that figures were being inflated for breath tests. Does Mr. Ó Cualáin think it is credible that this could have gone on for so many years in An Garda Síochána without senior management being aware of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: It is stated on page 76 of the report that "a degree of carelessness and estimation was part of the data collection process". Why is it that carelessness and estimation always seem to be in an upward direction? Surely an honest estimate would be too low as many times as it would be too high. The elephant in the room - the report goes out of its way to avoid pointing it out - is that many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: In March there was a discussion between the Chairman and the former Garda Commissioner about whether incompetence or deception was the root cause of these issues. The former Garda Commissioner concluded her appearance before the committee on 30 March with the following comment, "I will conclude by giving the committee an assurance, as I did at the end of my opening statement, that we will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: I get the impression that responsibility for deciding who behaved badly is now being passed to people who may have behaved badly. They oversaw the inflated figures. Is that a strange way of doing things?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: My point is the end result of Mr. O'Sullivan's report is that we are going back to the people who oversaw the malpractice for a verdict as to who is responsible. That is nuts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: I will ask Mr. Twomey some questions. For how long was he in charge of the Garda national traffic bureau?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: Would Mr. Twomey say he had extensive knowledge of the road traffic operation and how it works and runs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: When Mr. Twomey was in charge of the national traffic bureau as assistant and deputy commissioner, when was the first time it was brought to his attention that there was a problem with the breath test data? What did he do with the information and who did he inform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: When the deputy commissioner was first made aware of this matter, did he bring it to the attention of the senior management team?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: Did the deputy commissioner bring the matter to the attention of the senior management team at that time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: When the deputy commissioner was in charge of the Garda national traffic bureau was he briefed daily, weekly or monthly about statistics on breath tests?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: Bearing in mind that as the number of personnel in the Garda Síochána was going down, the breath test figures were going up, did the deputy commissioner query any of the figures he received each month?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: Let us compare what happened in Wexford with Tipperary. The report states there was an 18% disparity in Wexford and it was 385% in Tipperary. Given the deputy commissioner's position, did he not see fit to query each difference with each superintendent, the one in Wexford and the one in Tipperary, to see how in God's name people in effect lived on two different planets? Was that ever done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: Given the deputy commissioner's position, did he not have access to the information that came from Wexford and Tipperary? Could he not see that there was a huge difference between the two of them? Was the information not accessible to him?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: In terms of the information the deputy commissioner received each month, did he not know what the figures were, at any time, coming from Wexford or Tipperary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: My understanding is that it was a whistleblower who brought it forward and that it was not something the Garda initiated. As a matter of interest, did the deputy commissioner ever visit either of the divisions of Wexford and Tipperary in this period? Did he ever organise an audit of either of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: Did the deputy commissioner ever visit either division?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: The deputy commissioner has told us that Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan went out when he did. In 2014 or 2015, did the deputy commissioner ever visit either of the regions or did he ever initiate an audit in those regions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)
Mick Wallace: In what year?