Results 4,401-4,420 of 21,514 for speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Maith thú, Deputy Brophy. Will the Commissioner respond to those questions please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If you do not mind. It allows each member to have an opportunity and if there are salient supplementary questions at the end we can go back to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes, please. I understand that Mr. Ó Cualáin is Deputy Commissioner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Go raibh maith agat, Deputy Commissioner. We have concluded this sequence of questions and I thank the Senator. I call on Deputy O'Callaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan and Mr. Nugent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Deputy wish to ask further questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: By all means.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you, Assistant Commissioner Nolan. I understand Mr. Nugent wishes to make a further point on this section.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before you answer that, Commissioner, please note that Deputy Chambers has stolen one of my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We can report good news. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Deputy Daly. I call Deputy Mick Wallace.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you, Deputy Wallace. I call Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you, Deputy O'Brien. I call Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Thank you, Senator Clifford-Lee. I call Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Senator. The Commissioner twice made a welcome promotion here. Never mind the earlier questioning, Senator Ó Donnghaile was delighted to be referred to as Deputy and my party thanks the Commissioner for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Senator's electorate would be most happy with it. It comes to me to ask a number of short questions, if I may. In her address to us here, Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring spoke about the delay in responding to requests for reports and other information. GSOC makes requests but there is an inordinate delay, in her own words, and an untimeliness, in responding that makes the work of GSOC...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the assistant commissioner and the Commissioner. It is the case that GSOC is primarily focused on external complaints. It has been recently suggested in media discourse and elsewhere that perhaps we need a Garda ombudsman for the internal complaints process. In other words, an ombudsman to deal with members of the force when they present their issues. Has the Commissioner...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Commissioner for her response to Deputy Chambers on the drugs task force. She referred to farm equipment and the relationship with the Irish Farmers Association, IFA, in terms of the Theft Stop initiative. However, there is also, all too sadly, a matter relating to Border communities, namely, the theft of livestock. This has been a huge and very vexing problem for many,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the assistant commissioner wish to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We will group the comments from Deputies Brophy, Daly and Wallace as time is moving on. We have had a long engagement with the Commissioner and her colleagues and we have a private meeting to follow up.