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

Colm Brophy: I thank the witnesses for their appearance before the committee. There are many questions and while my colleagues will inquire about other areas, I wish to focus on two areas in regard to Ms Feehily's opening statement. In her comments on the Garda report that was presented to her in April, her tone and the reportage of that meeting clearly indicated that the Policing Authority was...

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

Colm Brophy: In light of evidence given to us recently and other things that have transpired, does Ms Feehily definitely still hold that view? Does she not think, because of some things that have transpired since that meeting took place and some things of which we are now aware, that it might even be naive to believe that there was not a deliberate attempt to mislead?

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

Colm Brophy: They had a second stab at producing a report in September but that, too, was completely unsatisfactory and by that stage information was emerging, as Ms Feehily was aware from the meeting in April, that what was going on was completely unsatisfactory. How would Ms Feehily classify the way that report was presented to her? They have had four months to do it. Does she believe it was an...

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

Colm Brophy: It is amazing to members of the public and of this committee that it can take from April to February of the following year for An Garda Síochána to prepare a report which the Policing Authority found acceptable. Although I accept what Ms Feehily says on the subject, to many people it seems - at least initially in the April presentation - some deliberately misleading information was...

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

Colm Brophy: Does Ms Feehily think the way she treated the two witnesses who appeared before this committee was appropriate? I ask Ms Feehily that specifically allowing for her initial or non-contact with them and the fact that subsequent to that there was contact with them. Even allowing for what Ms Feehily said was a policy, she seems to have adjusted that half way through because she seems to have...

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

Colm Brophy: The impression I gained from their evidence to us at our committee meeting was that felt they had pretty much hit a stone wall in trying to communicate with the Policing Authority and have their views heard. Does Ms Feehily believe that is misleading?

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

Colm Brophy: For the purpose of clarity, Ms Feehily is quite happy that the engagement by the Policing Authority with them was at all times professional, that it was reasonable and correct and she could 100% stand over the way the Policing Authority dealt with this as having been the correct way to deal with it.

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

Colm Brophy: It seems quite obvious that they do have a different perception of the engagement.

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

Colm Brophy: I am just trying to figure out what occurred. I am not trying to trip Ms Feehily up.

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

Colm Brophy: She believes the authority's engagement was at all times correct and professional but they obviously has a very different perspective on that. Is there an internal process that the Policing Authority should be examining in regard to how it deals with people who contact it in these kinds of circumstances? Ms Feehily seems to say she did nothing wrong and that the authority does not need to...

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

Colm Brophy: In light of that answer, does Ms Feehily believe it was inappropriate for the authority to be contacted?

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

Colm Brophy: Can I move on to one final area, on which I would like to ask Ms Feehily for an overview? I echo Ms Feehily's sentiments on getting this done as quickly as possible and on circulating the information as quickly as possible because there are victims, families and people with genuine concerns. In the section of her opening remarks that dealt with how the investigation is proceeding, she noted...

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?