Results 201-220 of 664 for garda speaker:Alan Kelly

Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (17 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...that is now in the public domain, is the Minister satisfied that his Department provided full information and co-operated fully with both the O'Higgins commission and the O'Neill report into Garda whistleblower claims and has he asked his officials for absolute assurances on same?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Operations (17 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: 61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure in his Department for logging all contact and communications with senior management in An Garda Síochána; if procedures have changed in recent times; and if so, when and the way in which this happened. [16447/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (17 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the number of cases referred to the Garda Youth Diversion Programme in each year since 2010 are accurate; his further views regarding the review into the programme that is being carried out; and when the report will be published. [16445/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (17 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: 515. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of expenditure on consultancy by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by his Department in these years; the names of the consultancy companies awarded contracts; and the steps which have been taken to reduce the expenditure on consultancy and the reliance...

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

Alan Kelly: ...Policing Authority, Ms Josephine Feehily, indicated that the Committee of Public Accounts had greater capacity to deal with issues related to tendering or otherwise and public procurement within An Garda Síochána than the Policing Authority. Unless the authority's functions are extended, it will not be able to deal with this matter.

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

Alan Kelly: I am paraphrasing Ms Feehily and do not want to misrepresent her views, although they will be in the transcript of yesterday's meeting. My understanding is that while An Garda Síochána must engage in a process with the Policing Authority to appoint a clerical officer, the authority cannot do anything about Garda expenditure of €26 million without a tendering process.

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

Alan Kelly: ...one tenth of my questions and do not want them to overlap with those of other members. There has been much forensic analysis. Does Ms Feehily see some patterns in how senior management in An Garda Síochána provide information for the Policing Authority?

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

Alan Kelly: I refer to the quality of information provided on fixed charges, breath tests, the Garda College and homicides. The next issue is the juvenile liaison programme.

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

Alan Kelly: ...I have great personal admiration for the work Ms Feehily has done previously, but I am not satisfied that the evidence that has been given is consistent on this issue. I am not satisfied that the Garda Commissioner's Gmail account was not being used. I am not satisfied that assistant commissioners and deputy commissioners have not been using Gmail for official Garda business either, and...

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

Alan Kelly: This is on the public record, and one can look back on the video. Who were the individuals from An Garda Síochána actually presenting on that report that day?

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...the different view is and how it will give protection to women and clear guidance to medical professionals on how they can act. Such Members must not leave the situation as it is. The situation where gardaí, barristers and other lawyers were debating various medical circumstancess involving women was not acceptable or workable. What is being proposed is practical, humane, sensible...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: The Garda Síochána has responded to the committee with a range of correspondence. I would like to highlight two issues with which I am not happy. First, when we were discussing issues relating to the Garda College, a document was sent to the then Garda Commissioner by the head of legal affairs, Mr. Ken Ruane, in July 2017. I understand it was a letter rather than a legal document...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: We asked for a copy of the risk register in respect of the Garda College. The response to that request states that An Garda Síochána risk registers are restricted documents, with only those involved in the risk management process or the auditing of risk being provided access to them. Would that be the norm? Second, are we not entitled to copies of the risk registers? I would...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...take it. That is not the issue. They are attacking me because through the process by which this committee works, in conjunction with the Comptroller and Auditor General, issues relating to the Garda College in Templemore have come through the pipeline and have been dealt with in here. Deputies are attacking this committee and by extension, me as a member of this committee. I have no...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: If we read the report it is actually a very good report. It raises a huge number of questions, and we really need to write to An Garda Síochána to ask very specific questions based on the report. I would encourage the secretariat, and there is a bit of work in it I am afraid, to go through the report and refer it on. There are some very specific questions in it, which may need to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...Deputy Wallace earlier, I felt like giving Ms West a round of applause when she spoke about the tension between expertise and rank structure. That summed up the situation we have all seen in An Garda Síochána for some time. With great clarity, Ms West spoke about ethics, truth and conviction and that she had to stand by what she was doing for the past 15 months. Has the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...of victims. In addition, what has come across clearly to me is that, because of the consequences of the 15 month delay and the fact that this has not been done properly, we have a situation where gardaí are not provided with the level of information that would link up ongoing investigations and that causes investigative risk every day. Would it be fair to say that is a serious...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...billion going to section 38 companies and how procurement was carried out. It is a huge amount of money. It is 38% of funding of the HSE. We are also hearing issues coming to the fore in respect of Garda contracts relating to IT. Again, we are talking about huge amounts of money. One contract that was not tendered was for €26.5 million. What is the consequence or the impact...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...are not generated by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General are brought to the attention of the Department, are they investigated? I refer to the €26.5 million IT contract for An Garda Síochána, for example.

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

Alan Kelly: We also requested correspondence from the CEO of An Garda Síochána. What is the status of that?