Results 341-360 of 548 for garda speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...having that type of conversation with Maurice McCabe? Why did he say the things he said? What has not been focused upon is what he said about the very close relationship the Minister has with the Garda Commissioner, which I have criticised for a long time. I am seeking the Minister's view on why a man who is honourable and decent, as the Minister testified and which has been confirmed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that the Garda confidential recipient has been relieved of his duties, the arrangements in place for members of An Garda Síochána who wish to make a complaint. [9946/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason An Garda Síochána are refusing to co-operate with an investigation being carried out by the Police Ombudsman's office in Northern Ireland into the role of former and serving officers in the PSNI into the circumstances surrounding the exposure and subsequent murder of a person (details supplied). [9722/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the grounds for dismissal of the Garda confidential recipient, Mr Oliver Connolly. [9723/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (27 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 27. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on An Garda Síochána's investigation into the murder of Sinn Féin councillor, Eddie Fullerton, at Cockhill, Buncrana, County Donegal on 25 May 1991. [9725/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (27 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers of Garda personnel serving in County Donegal for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [9726/14]

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... Nobody denies that the Minister is hard working or that much of the legislation he has introduced is admirable and needed to happen. That is not the point. The second issue relates to An Garda Síochána, which has more than 13,000 members. Deputy Charles Flanagan is right in pointing out that we have a police service and I am glad he made the distinction from a police...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Levels (25 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 518. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has carried out any assessment of the impact of the closure of rural Garda stations on the levels and detection of crime in rural areas. [9237/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Neighbourhood Watch Schemes (25 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Donegal to outline their concerns about crime in the county and in particular attacks on the elderly in their homes; if he will ensure that he deploys the necessary resources and personnel to An Garda Síochána in the county; if he will ensure that community alert and neighbourhood watch schemes are revitalised and adequately resourced; and if he will ensure that all elderly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: He has clarified the following - if I am wrong, correct me - the Garda Commission has already publicly clarified that the Garda has not and the Minister has clarified that he has not. He has not asked-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...General, and Mr. Michael Flahive, assistant secretary, and thank them for their attendance. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss issues arising from reports of the unlawful surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. To ensure that mobile telephone interference with the broadcasting equipment is kept to a minimum, I remind members and those in the gallery to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That concludes our engagement with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. I thank the members of the commission, Commissioner Simon O'Brien, chairperson, Commissioner Kieran FitzGerald and Commissioner Carmel Foley, and their colleagues, for attending the meeting today and for their co-operation. We are sincerely grateful to you for appearing before the committee so quickly and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...four years to complete the investigation. Am I right in saying that it took so long because of the profound delays in getting co-operation on this matter of huge public interest from senior management of An Garda Síochána? GSOC never received one document. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are any of the persons under investigation in this special investigation currently in a senior position of any kind in An Garda Síochána?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In regard to the public interest investigation can I confirm whether any of the persons involved in the array of An Garda Síochána or intelligence services, or whatever, are currently in a senior position in An Garda Síochána?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...GSOC was pursuing an investigation - which it is its job to do, courageously, without fear or favour, to pursue every issue - that had very serious ramifications for people at a higher level in An Garda Síochána, it had therefore put itself in the way of surveillance and monitoring and the outcome was potentially a threat to An Garda Síochána. It is being said that may...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The commissioners came before us last July in respect of their concerns about co-operation with GSOC investigations by senior management of the Garda Síochána. Protocols have been in place since. I am particularly interested in the public interest investigation conducted by GSOC. Am I correct that it is a public interest investigation, without naming individuals, into reports...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...to that investigation, one of the issues investigated by GSOC led to it reporting that it had profound difficulties for a number of years in getting co-operation from senior management in the Garda Síochána in that investigation. Will Mr. FitzGerald take us through some of the difficulties in respect of time limits and getting documentation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are now in public session. I welcome Commissioners Simon O'Brien, chairperson, Kieran FitzGerald and Carmel Foley of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, to our meeting. The commissioners are accompanied by Mr. Ray Leonard, deputy director of investigations, Mr. Chris McGuire, analyst, and Ms Suzie Rafter, communications and research officer. We are here today to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda-PSNI Transfers (12 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 402 of 22 October 2013, the number of members of An Garda Síochána and of the PSNI that have taken part in personnel exchanges for each year since 2005; and the timeframe each exchange lasted. [6969/14]