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

Colm Brophy: With a view to having a more generic or complete overview, is there any other area in respect of this type of review or otherwise where the Policing Authority has experienced this type of difficulty?

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

Colm Brophy: It was really disappointing to hear Ms Feehily having to say that, after the whole process associated with the homicide review, involving the three reports and an 18-month period, the Policing Authority is still receiving the same types of treatment and reporting from what is at this point nearly the third reincarnation of Garda management, that it is still being handed material at 6 p.m. the...

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

Colm Brophy: I apologise but I must leave this meeting early. I thank Ms Feehily.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Plaques (20 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: 1083. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to introduce commemorative plaques for sites connected with the Famine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12293/18]

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

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I know they have covered a lot of ground with my colleagues so far. I have a couple of points I wish to touch on, and I will try not to go over issues that have been dealt with already. My first question is more relevant to Ms West who has been working with An Garda Síochána for ten years. What the witnesses have described of this...

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

Colm Brophy: I fully appreciate what Ms West has said. I appreciate and echo her sentiments that there are many excellent officers in An Garda Síochána who work above and beyond the call of duty to ensure the Garda delivers on solving crime and in its day-to-day work. However, I want to go back to the other part of what Ms West said. It strikes me, listening to the answer she gave - and I do...

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

Colm Brophy: Just as a comment, rather than a question, to Ms West, I think over a ten year learning curve many of what were the very senior Garda officers recently would have been in the lower ranks, learning, I hope, before they got to their very senior ranks. I want to link the witnesses to this to bring the meeting up to this particular sequence of meetings we are going through. There seems to me to...

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

Colm Brophy: Therefore, if it was not just serving Garda officers, would the witnesses' effective boss be the person present at those meetings?

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

Colm Brophy: These were the meetings that the witnesses felt they were excluded from that looked at the matter.

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

Colm Brophy: I will move on to one aspect of this that I cannot fully understand. I raised it at our last meeting. If the meeting of the Policing Authority took place on 27 April, how did it take until 8 May for a request that this unsatisfactory report be commented on? Dr. Singh said to me, when I asked him about this, that he tried to get the report. I am totally confused as to how something can be...

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

Colm Brophy: Ms West therefore thinks it was a deliberate decision, even after it had been presented to the Policing Authority, not to share it with her and Ms Galligan.

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

Colm Brophy: This ties into the other area I want to go into. The witnesses have raised a very interesting new area today. The Policing Authority's actions in this case seem to me to be very interesting. There was a meeting on 27 April. My understanding and calculations of the various dates - if I am wrong, I ask the witnesses to correct me - is that Ms West made one direct appeal to the Policing...

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

Colm Brophy: It is not just that the Policing Authority ignored it, then; it formally declined.

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

Colm Brophy: After the 27 April meeting of the Policing Authority - the witnesses already had one contact with it - they had this very unsatisfactory report, possible report or whatever. Reservations were expressed quite openly to that meeting by Dr. Singh, etc. The witnesses then made subsequent efforts to contact the Policing Authority; it had subsequent meetings before we got to the point of...

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

Colm Brophy: Do the witnesses believe the Policing Authority let them down in how it dealt with them?

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

Colm Brophy: I wish to switch tack away from the Policing Authority to a completely different aspect of it. This relates more to Ms Galligan's area. A layperson listening to anything like this would be knocking their head against a wall wondering how a garda cannot know when a homicide is a homicide and how a classification can be so wrong. I appreciate Ms Galligan gave us some very detailed...

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

Colm Brophy: I suppose that is what I am trying to clarify. It is not that there was necessarily a systematic attempt to somehow do it wrong. I would not like to define it as a mess, but it was effectively a mess in the way a senior guy was saying that this is the way it has been logged in here, so log it in that way. The whole process shows a complete lack of training and the structures that should be...

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

Colm Brophy: My apologies as I also have to leave. I thank the witnesses for their answers and time today.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I have received apologies from Deputy Donnelly. A pilot approach to gender budgeting has been adopted in the Revised Estimates for public services 2018, published in December. At last week's session we engaged with officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the general budget indicators that form part of that pilot. Today the committee will meet with...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (27 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I was delighted to circulate the documents. It is a worthwhile topic the Deputy has raised. We will get a chance to look at that in more detail I hope.