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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: -----a flaw in the recognition system-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: -----and wrong numbers being taken and inputted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: I refer to problems in the system which needed to be corrected and which led to wrongful convictions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: With the contract or with the system that was introduced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: The system has always been perfect and has never been corrected. Really?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: I was going to move on to the matter of the fixed-charge notices. I was not actually talking about that. That was a slightly different matter, which is another IT issue, so perhaps when the witnesses are answering the two questions, they can answer both points because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: Perfect. Given that Assistant Commissioner Finn raised the issue of the fixed-charge notices, that is obviously another linked issue in that we were told, from the analysis of the summons and so on, that it was largely an IT problem or that the IT problem was a huge part of it, meaning the system did not prevent a summons going out, even though a fixed-charge notice had not been issued and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: Right, but the cases are ongoing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: Does Mr. Sheahan have an idea of how much staff power is tied up in that or how many cases have been dealt with?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: Mr. Sheahan can get that information, though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: If that could be furnished to the committee, I think it would be helpful. I note also, regarding discipline for the members found in breach of the fixed-charge notice system, which is a slightly separate issue but is obviously linked to the same system, that over the course of the past six years only nine gardaí have been disciplined in respect of fixed-charge notices, six of them of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: That is precisely why I raised the issue under information technology. Claims were made in the opening statement about successful ICT projects.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: Much of the work done by this committee and a great deal of public discourse has centred on the fact that the absence of good IT systems in An Garda Síochána has generated a significant cost for the organisation in terms of prosecutions. While the issue of discipline is a separate matter, I raised it under the IT heading for that reason.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: The Garda has a similar problem with the homicide figures in that the analysts flagged 16 categories of death. This excessively complicated approach to categorisation caused IT problems. What is being done to address that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: No, but what is the Garda doing about it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: Some of the complexity is not attributable to legislation. The 16 death categories on PULSE that caused a problem were flagged by Garda analysts. This is perhaps a simpler example but it involves 16 rather than hundreds of categories. In the case of a death, this is too many and the issue was flagged a long time ago. What has been done to address that complication in the IT system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: Are there still 16 categories for deaths?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: There are still 16 categories for deaths on PULSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: Mr. Nugent stated that An Garda Síochána had improved, with personnel speaking up and being encouraged to come forward and so forth. How many gardaí have spoken up? How many protected disclosures are in the system? Does Mr. Nugent know?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion (25 Apr 2018)
Clare Daly: Does he have a ballpark figure?