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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: The Garda has no one working on it. Is Mr. Finn telling me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: I want to understand this. Mr. Finn is telling me that, initially, six people or so set up a team to undertake an examination of the southern region and a national audit is now being conducted, but a dedicated team is not working on that audit even though it is trying to pilot the information back into the organisation so that the witnesses would not have needed to attend this meeting and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: Mr. Finn does not believe this is a priority for investigation. Does the Commissioner believe it is a priority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: Does the Commissioner believe that the length of time this investigation audit has taken is acceptable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: I have a final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: I wish to ask the Commissioner a specific question. It stems from her opening statement and the extensive coverage that one part of her statement yesterday received after it became public knowledge. She stated: "My fear, and my real fear, is that this falsification is not confined to traffic data." Is any investigation audit process under way in An Garda Síochána that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: Ms O'Sullivan made a specific reference to a number of reviews being undertaken. On foot of how answers were given to the Policing Authority, have any of those reviews been triggered by a report, investigation, complaint or anything that we should be aware of and causes Ms O'Sullivan to have a doubt about specific Garda data or are they just reviews?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: I wish to follow up on where I left off. Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan, is conducting a full investigation into all aspects. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: It is due to take three months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: Let me go back to my earlier question. If that is possible, does the Commissioner still think it is acceptable that, on foot of the first investigation into the southern region where she knew the Garda had such a problem, she has still not been able to supply proper full audit information to this committee, the Policing Authority, the Minister for Justice and Equality or anybody else? She...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: Would it not have been far better if that kind of speed, approach and emphasis had been deployed to this a year and a half go instead of now, when effectively the Commissioner had to do it because the thing exploded on her?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: Why did she not do so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: The people who were doing it were not asked to do it in the prioritised way it is now being dealt with. That was a decision made by the Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: I am not interested in the excuses the Commissioner has used about four times already. She made a decision. She has now a fact-finding operation that will report in three months. However, the point is that even after the southern region investigation, which showed that something had gone seriously wrong, she did not choose to put this type of emphasis into dealing with the problem, which...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: I have to leave at 2.45 p.m. at the latest. I just wanted to flag that and offer my apologies.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: On a point of order, I am fascinated by the direction this discussion is going in. This is not the transport committee. In my opinion, we are going completely into-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: I am sorry, but I think we are. We are asking witnesses about matters for which they are not responsible. We are going into areas of transport policy and development that may or may not be worthy of the interest of the Chair and other members of the committee. We are supposed to be fulfilling the role of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. In all honesty, it is a bit of a reach to bring...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: I think it is unfair to our colleagues on the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport, to the Minister and to the witnesses who are present at this meeting for us to go down this route.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Nolan for the information supplied. I appreciate the Chairman letting me make the point. The point I was trying to make in the context of the interjections is that it is important, when asking about the areas to which one can contribute, to focus on the areas in which one has the direct knowledge and ability to contribute and not to other people's area. I have a specific...