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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)
Seán Fleming: .... The next item, after the four statements of accounts received, is the work programme. It is on the screen in front of members. Next Thursday, we will have a paper on how to handle Stepaside Garda station and we will incorporate it into our work programme next week. I will go through the logic. Today, we have IDA Ireland financial statements. We decided at the commencement of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Apologies have been received from Deputy Josepha Madigan. Before we proceed to our normal business we will hear from acting Garda Commissioner, Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin, on a commitment given to the committee at a meeting in July to provide a copy of the interim report on the reopening of certain Garda stations. The committee has still not received the report and is concerned...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Just to clarify, the acting Garda Commissioner said that no Garda decision had been made on opening six stations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Was that a Garda decision or a Government decision or both?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Garda made the decision-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I will go to Deputy MacSharry next. An Garda Síochána was following the process in the programme for Government for reopening Garda stations and had a shortlist of six. Could the acting Garda Commissioner just explain how An Garda Síochána came to the decision to only open one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Did the acting Garda Commissioner approve the reopening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The former Garda Commissioner told us here on the last day that she did not have the report but that the witness, the acting Garda Commissioner, did. Was it the acting Garda Commissioner's decision to reopen the station?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The decision of An Garda Síochána.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Can the acting Garda Commissioner give us the date of that decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for that. Perhaps Mr. Joseph Nugent or somebody could phone to get the date on which An Garda Síochána made the decision to reopen Stepaside. We would like that done now. Perhaps Mr. Nugent could step outside now to make that phone call, because that date is critical. I now call Deputy MacSharry.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Has the acting Garda Commissioner ascertained when the Garda decided to reopen Stepaside Garda station?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: ------recommending that Stepaside Garda station alone be reopened. This is the confusion. There were 16 Garda stations mentioned but there was one for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: In other words, the report was provided to the Government with more than one Garda station identified as being suitable for early reopening.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We, as politicians, will deal with that on a political level. Did the report produced by the Garda Síochána that went to the Department of Justice and Equality on 9 June and then to the Government recommend more than one early reopening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: No other stations have commenced the process of. The witness said discussions with the OPW for arrangements to reopen Stepaside Garda station have commenced.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is the Commissioner's decision to reopen Stepaside Garda station.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: That Stepaside Garda station be reopened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The report from the Garda Síochána to the Government recommended that Stepaside Garda station be reopened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Can Mr. Ó Cualáin clarify one last question for me? He said it is ultimately a matter for the Garda Commissioner to make a decision regarding the reopening of a Garda station. The Garda has proceeded and commenced the process with the OPW for consideration of Stepaside. There were a number of other stations on the list that the Garda sent to the Department of Justice and Equality...