Results 221-240 of 760 for garda speaker:Catherine Connolly

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Plean Gníomhaíochta 2018-2022 de Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge: An tAire Stáit ag an Roinn Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta (10 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Bhí ceist faoi liúntas do mhúinteoirí agus an Garda a bhíodh ann roimhe.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 14 - Control of Ireland's Bilateral Assistance Programme
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (21 Jun 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We will leave the Garda or whatever the relevant police force is to that job, but the matter of governance is relevant for the Department. Did the Department discover this? What has the Department learned from it? Were governance procedures working to enable the Department to discover it?

Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...him on the previous occasion. He will not be too happy with me but he has a similar background to the young boy who died, so it is particularly painful. I have taken the trouble to read the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission report in full. I am reluctantly here to criticise GSOC. I do not wish to, as we want the mechanisms to work. That is the reason they were set up. We...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...he was hit from behind by a person who was driving without insurance, tax or an NCT and who was on bail at the time. More startling than that, the car was pulled over a few hours beforehand by a Garda drug squad and checked for drugs. A second man was driving the car. He had no insurance or tax, so the drivers were switched, apparently with the permission of the gardaí, and the car...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. Táimid fós ag streachailt agus os comhair an talún. We need An Garda Síochána, and we need trust in the organisation. I am looking forward to looking at accounts on an annual basis as with all other organisations. That is what we need in a civilised society. This is particularly the case after the past few weeks, given...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What report has the Garda made to the Minister to say there is a conflict here and that it is unacceptable?

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It was said that there were 94 contracts under procurement. An Garda Síochána is not unlike any other organisation but I believe there is an extra responsibility on the force when it comes to procurement. The number of contracts that are not compliant is unfortunate. Are they the same as the ones Mr. Kelly looked at?

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...dealt with. I welcome the clarity of what was said. Concern on the spend on ICT was referred to and that we thought some of it could have been done by skilled professionals hired directly by the Garda. It would probably have cost less money. That is the context. The bottom line is that private companies are in it for repeat business. That has been clearly stated by the Policing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There is the matter of the reporting mechanism for the Garda ombudsman and the inspectorate. Has the reporting changed? It was one of the recommendations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I ask the witness to just stay with me for a second. On page 11 it is stated that the review group believes there is a conflict with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and the Garda Inspectorate reporting into the Garda division of the Department. That was November 2014 and we are now April 2018. Has that changed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What about the Garda Inspectorate?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...the Department for various reasons and in very public circumstances. There have been many debates in the Dáil. I am now relating this report on the Department of Justice and Equality back to the Garda. If I look at the Department's own Vote, on page 30 we have all of the tribunals. We do not have all the tribunals; I will rephrase. We have a tiny section of the tribunals that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Before we talk about millionaires, what was exposed was the most serious difficulties in the Garda. Whatever about barristers or solicitors making a killing, they were very serious issues.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...something for €70 million, certainly the price is given to solicitors and barristers which I fully agree should be looked at. I accept that. If we do not learn from it - arising from that we had the Garda Síochána Act and lots of recommendations. That was in 2005, was it, the Morris tribunal?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Here we are, ten years later with the Department of Justice and Equality. We have a Smithwick tribunal again inquiring into the Garda. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: And further down we have an inquiry under section 109 of the Garda Síochána Act into the conduct of a GSOC investigation. Then we have a commission of investigation in respect of Cavan-Monaghan, the O'Higgins report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: .... There was a statement about learning from O'Higgins, which made very moderate findings. I would have preferred if he had made stronger findings but he did not. All of these inquiries were into Garda behaviour supervised or managed by the Department of Justice and Equality because the Garda comes under that Department.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There was a vacancy in the Garda Inspectorate or GSOC. I had it marked in my documents but I have lost it.

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

Catherine Connolly: 508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the Irish Youth Justice Service, IYJS, proposals to alter their service delivery model whereby one Garda youth diversion project will be assigned to each Garda division (details supplied) which may undermmine the ability of independent projects to have their tender accepted for larger Garda divisions; and if he...

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

Catherine Connolly: 509. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to help young persons that have not been cautioned but whose actions have come to the attention of An Garda Síochána and local agencies further to the proposal from the IYJC that preference will be given to young persons that have been cautioned under the Garda diversion programme; and if he will make a...