Results 201-220 of 504 for garda speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of finance, Mr. Culhane, attempts to lean on and goes so far as to threaten legal action against the head of internal audit. This matter is then raised with the Commissioner by the chair of the Garda audit committee. Far from being decisive, the Commissioner failed to act.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Commissioner failed to act decisively. Is this not a testament to the failure of her leadership within An Garda Síochána?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...is a little frustrated by the conflicting evidence and accounts being given. Notwithstanding the fact that the system and practices at Templemore college date back decades, we have not had from An Garda Síochána collectively a coherent or credible account or response in terms of what happened. I am not referring in the first instance to how all of these practices became...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: How long is the Commissioner in the Garda Síochána? Is it all her working career?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We might stick with that theme. I understand Mr. Barrett, head of human resources at An Garda Síochána and a witness to this committee, was on the ethics committee or sub-committee of the authority.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: When was he nominated by the Garda Commissioner to that position?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Did he enter into any conversation about the turn of events within An Garda Síochána, his personal treatment or any personal sense of grievance he had?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Having seen the correspondence that Mr. Howard wrote to the serving Garda Commissioner, Ms Feehily is obviously aware-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...odd but let the record reflect what was said. With the benefit of having some sight of this mess, this absolute chaotic, shambolic mess that has undoubtedly brought reputational damage to An Garda Síochána again-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...General of the Department. He is in charge and he has given me a ludicrous, half-baked answer like that. Given the scale and nature of this matter and in light of the nature of the function of An Garda Síochána within this democracy, is it not entirely clear to Mr. Waters that a section 41 disclosure should have been made and that he should have been informed earlier rather...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...Justice and Equality of this State. If we, as a committee, can conclude nothing else, it is surely - to state the blindingly obvious - that the Department ought to have been informed and that the Garda Síochána Act 2005 ought to have been complied with in line with the legal advice that Mr. Ruane gave to the Commissioner.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the Government, that is too bad, because Sinn Féin makes no apologies for the political stances it takes. The Minister, Deputy Flanagan assumes the justice portfolio. He should be clear that the position of the Garda Commissioner is no longer tenable and has not been so for a significant period of time. He should be clear that he cannot credibly allow the culture of impunity within...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: So it was very late in the day that the declarations were made and coincided with the hearings here. I state that as an observation. Mr. Dunne first came to the Garda Síochána in 2012, it that correct? Or was it 2013? When did he come into the position?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: How long is Mr. McGee in position with An Garda Síochána?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Had Mr. Dunne's leaving position anything to do with the matters in respect of the Garda college and how all of that was shaping up?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: In this email it is clear that Mr. McGee understands the breaches of the law and the legal minefield An Garda Síochána is in? Is that fair to say?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...report and he states: "[It] was very coincidental that I sent [the] report, but is has been on my mind for a number of weeks, particularly when you start to look at building a balance sheet for the Garda College because in essence a lot of assets have been built up off records by using these entities." He goes on to detail the use of the living allowance and so on and in fairness to Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Let us fast forward then to October. Mr. Culhane wrote to the Garda Commissioner, the deputy commissioners and the CAO. This is the letter in which the Official Secrets Act was quoted. In it, he recounted the events of 21 October when the witness, Mr. Michael Dodd and Mr. PJ Leonard were having lunch in the restaurant and were joined by Mr. John Barrett and Mr. Alan Mulligan. During...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday we heard extraordinary accounts from senior civilian executives of An Garda Síochána in respect of the Garda Training College in Templemore. To say that the set up has been reflected as shambolic and toxic is to use very mild terms. On the Tánaiste's behalf, the Taoiseach committed that she would come to the Dáil to make a statement about the irregularities,...

Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Yesterday, the Committee of Public Accounts witnessed the toxic shambles that is senior Garda management. As we watched that theatre unfold, word came through of a shooting on Dorset Street in Dublin's north inner city, which claimed the life of a man. This ruthless murder was another shocking incident in broad daylight at the heart of a community caught in the grip of a criminal feud that...