Results 2,761-2,780 of 7,404 for speaker:Mick Wallace
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Does Mr. Finn think not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: That is fine. I do not expect Mr. Finn to speak for anyone else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: To the best of my knowledge, I heard Mr. Finn take responsibility last week for over 13,000 mistakes. Would that be true? Mr. Finn accepts some responsibility for the fact that things went haywire around the fixed charge notices. Mr. Finn will have noticed that yesterday I raised in the Dáil the issue of a female garda who is stationed in Bray. I have the result of an internal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I will not identify anyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I have not. I am merely puzzled that the law is so different for those in senior management from the foot soldiers. Maybe I am missing something.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: For the record, in the case I was referring to the person was exonerated totally at the Criminal Court. Let me move on. My next question is for Assistant Commissioner Michael Finn. We know that breath test figures were dramatically inflated. Might the figures for checkpoints also be inflated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: With regard to mandatory alcohol test checkpoints, I understand an inspector must sign an order prior to a checkpoint to make it legal. Might it be possible that very often this order is signed afterwards, or is this untrue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Never.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: It has never come to your notice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Fine. Deputy Commissioner Twomey has apologised for not contacting the Policing Authority last year, last month or at any time about this issue. There would not necessarily have been a need for a formal structure to make contact with it. It could have been through an e-mail or a phone call, and I am sure Deputy Commissioner Twomey meets people from the Policing Authority the odd time. Is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Yes, but Deputy Commissioner Twomey has already admitted he should have told it sooner than he did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Yes, but we have not really heard an explanation as to why he did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Apart from the letter, I cannot believe there was not a phone call.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: With regard to the Commissioner, on "Morning Ireland" Cathal Mac Coille interviewed Professor Cusack of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety. Cathal Mac Coille stated the bureau knew enough in 2014 to ask the question, to which Professor Cusack replied the numbers simply did not add up. Cathal Mac Coille asked whether Professor Cusack had a meeting with the Garda, to which he replied he had...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Senior Garda indiscipline is not in the remit of the Policing Authority but it is within the Commissioner's remit. Does the Commissioner agree there is a problem with how Garda indiscipline is dealt with? Did Superintendent Pat Murray have an involvement in the internal inquiry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I just read a press report that Superintendent Pat Murray was involved, but I do not know whether it is true. I want the Commissioner to confirm "yes" or "no".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: There is, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I am referring to a new internal investigation the Commissioner is setting up. In light of the problems dealing with indiscipline in the force I wonder whether Superintendent Pat Murray, who is the subject of a protected disclosure, got a job involved in the internal investigation, "yes" or "no".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: So the Commissioner is saying Pat Murray is not involved.