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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Is he not involved in it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I will move on. I realise it is hard to get answers to questions. The Commissioner said in her submission her real fear is this falsification is not confined to traffic data. Does she have anything else in mind?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: There is nothing in particular in mind at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: For the record, I have been speaking for 13 minutes and the average so far has been more than 20.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: The last one was 25.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: The Commissioner said she will ensure people responsible at all levels will be held to account. Who will hold the Commissioner to account?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: In most jobs, people take responsibility for their performance. It goes without saying at this stage that there have been so many investigations and reports. Things are not really running awfully smoothly. Surely the buck stops with the Commissioner. The last Garda Inspectorate report in 2015 stated that no one had made the change happen. The Commissioner was almost two years in the gig...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I have heard all this before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I know the Commissioner can. I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I will finish up now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I will. In light of what she just stated, will the Commissioner explain to me why the vast majority of people think she is no longer the right person for the job? Will she explain why, from the feedback we are receiving, the vast majority of the people in her force no longer feel she is the right person for the job? Lastly, she might address one other small issue. Press releases on breath...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: I might as well say a few words.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Mick Clifford reported in the Irish Examiner that the Policing Authority had been contacted by a recently retired Garda sergeant who claims that there is evidence that the volume of breath test checkpoints was inflated in official figures. This sergeant prepared a report for his district officer before retiring last year in which he pointed out that the official figures for checkpoints...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: Do the witnesses have any comment on the first question about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: The article highlighted that a former sergeant compiled a report last year before his retirement. In the report, he pointed out that the official figures for checkpoints completed could be up to twice the number actually carried out. He said that his concerns were dismissed and he was criticised for making the report.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Promotions (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied with the process undertaken by the Policing Authority regarding the recent competition and selection for the rank of assistant commissioner in An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15699/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Procedures (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: 20. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that Garda senior management is still capable of performing its duties to the highest standard following the revelation that 14,700 persons were convicted in the courts without a fixed charge notice first being issued and that the number of drink driving tests carried out was exaggerated by over 937,000; and if she will make...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Authority (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: 26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to strengthen the current legislation which established the Policing Authority, in particular with regard to oversight and accountability, following the ongoing crises surrounding senior Garda management; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15695/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Issues (30 Mar 2017)
Mick Wallace: 68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that the Garda Commissioner will be able to fully commit to her role as head of policing and security services while a tribunal of inquiry is tasked with investigating certain allegations surrounding her conduct; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15696/17]