Results 21-40 of 139 for gsoc speaker:Clare Daly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: ...do for the two women. Does she not accept that the issues that were being raised were not for the two individuals? They had absolutely nothing to do with something that would end up going to GSOC. They were raising an issue which is a function of the authority, the performance by An Garda Síochána of its functions in terms of the classification of data relating to homicide....

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: ...in the context of accountability, with people inside An Garda Síochána putting their necks on the line and not getting support from the agencies in this State. Deputy Flanagan is the Minister. If GSOC is saying it, the whistleblower is saying it and people in this House are saying it, then a lot more needs to be done than is the case at present. I think the Minister should...

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: 53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to review the supports available to Garda whistleblowers, particularly in view of GSOC's acknowledgement of its lack of resources in fulfilling this function; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5652/18]

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: This question relates to the adequacies, or rather inadequacies, of GSOC with regard to its ability to deal with its function as the recipient of protected disclosures from Garda whistleblowers. This is a matter Deputy Wallace and I have raised on repeated instances, even at the time the legislation was brought forward. We are heartened by the fact GSOC now agrees with us and has itself...

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I am afraid the Minister and I are certainly not at one because he is satisfied and I am not, and I am not the only one who is not satisfied. GSOC itself is not satisfied and, more particularly, the Garda whistleblowers who have made protected disclosures to that organisation are not satisfied. There is a very real reason for this, which is that their legitimate complaints which were...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Data (7 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of section 102(1) referrals to GSOC from Garda headquarters in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017 relating to cases in which there was no death involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52493/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Data (7 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of section 83(2) complaints received by An Garda Síochána that were referred to GSOC in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52494/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: The ICCL has teed this up very well. Mass surveillance is a very broad issue and Deputy Wallace and I have raised Garda oversight and surveillance in the context of the GSOC bugging scandal, as well as the limitations in our legislation in this respect. We do not agree with the State being empowered to get its hands on anyone's private information, whatever his or her profession. All...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: ...in terms of Garda information, was leaked. There is a certain irony in the fact that the appropriate attention being put on the State's surveillance mechanism arose out of the circumstances where GSOC attempted to bring to justice the garda or State agent who was responsible for that violation. That is how the attention was focussed on this issue, and we felt that there was a certain...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: ...came from the Garda Inspectorate. It has the unanimous backing of all groups on the justice committee. We think that is very much overdue. It is somewhat regrettable that we do not have all of the accepted changes that are necessary in terms of GSOC. When GSOC came before us, it asked for substantial changes in law to allow it to do the job that it was set up to do, namely, holding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: ...in any case in terms of their employment and, therefore, I do not believe it necessary that they be singled out for special protection. There is a certain irony in the uproar that occurred when GSOC went looking for journalists' phone records not to investigate the journalists but in order to look into gardaí illegally invading the privacy of other citizens. When the journalists'...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that the GSOC investigation into the death of a person (details supplied) has been ongoing for five years with no outcome for the bereaved family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42377/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: The GSOC report was produced in 2008.

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Clare Daly: ...at the top, but also throughout the middle ranks in order that a new broom and a new culture could be developed. That is and has been the job on hand, and none of the bodies the Taoiseach mentions - GSOC, the Policing Authority and so on - have been fit for purpose. His own Government has identified as much. I therefore genuinely appeal to the old Deputy Varadkar, when he was a...

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Clare Daly: .... She was the second death from heroin in Athlone in the past two years, the same two years it has been since Garda whistleblower Nick Kehoe went to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, to complain about the manner in which the investigation into his protected disclosure about Garda involvement in that very same heroin trade was being handled by the now acting...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System Investigation (11 Sep 2017)

Clare Daly: 641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the nature of disciplinary action against gardaí who have been found to have abused the penalty points system following internal or GSOC inquiries since 2013; the number of gardaí involved; and if any of these gardaí were subsequently promoted. [38250/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Staff (25 May 2017)

Clare Daly: 70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the two investigators seconded to the Charleton tribunal from GSOC have been covered by alternative recruitment; if not, the way in which she envisages the shortage of GSOC resources would be covered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25226/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Clare Daly: ...for. That is not proper oversight and scrutiny. A review was initiated last year when the media suddenly woke up to this issue when the phone records of some members of the media were being requested by GSOC. Those people were involved in criminality and GSOC was investigating criminal behaviour on the part of gardaí. That is when the media got interested. When are we going to...

Report of the Fennelly Commission: Statements (12 Apr 2017)

Clare Daly: ...or do not read them - drawing a different conclusion. It is incredible, unbelievable stuff which amounts to mass ignorance, until it gets to the Holness case in Waterford. Let us remember, that was the first time GSOC initiated a criminal investigation. Three gardaí were convicted of assaulting a citizen. It was a very serious case in the course of which evidence was attempted to...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (12 Apr 2017)

Clare Daly: In respect of the money for the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, €1 million has been provided for what we might call a second penalty point investigation that never took place. Is that money being provided again or has any effort been made to find out why it was not spent?