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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: It is the opposite point to the one Senator Mullen made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: European Travel Information and Authorisation System: Motions (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: We are discussing it briefly in the Chamber on Thursday, but I would be concerned about the proposal. The briefing note says there is really no need for us to opt in and that we have nothing to lose by not opting in, with which I agree. There has been no full comprehensive impact assessment of ETIAS and this is just another rush job. There are potential implications regarding the right to...

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: I will try to be brief and I hope the replies will be brief. My first question relates to Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's report, the second the fixed charge notices and third, the maths test. I note that the acting Commissioner has said that he has begun to adapt the recommendations of Dr. Geoffrey Shannon. How many have been implemented to date?

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: I apologise for interrupting. I know a number of the recommendations are for the medium term but my question was on recommendations that could have been implemented by now. I assume from the assistant commissioner's answer that none of these has been implemented. I will assist him on the issue. Has the recommendation to issue a laminated card to all gardaí been implemented? Has the...

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: We are under time pressure. The assistant Commissioner's answer appears to be that none of the recommendations has been implemented yet, although the report was finalised in January and published in May. While I appreciate the Garda is doing some work on the report, this gives a new definition to the acting Commissioner's words about accelerating the pace of reform, which remains slow. As...

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: That is why Dr. Shannon made his recommendation. The point I am making is that the recommendation has not yet been implemented. If this issue is as important as the acting Commissioner says it is - I agree that it is important - the recommendation should have been implemented by now. On the fixed charge notice system, while I know the report on this matter is internal, this has been an...

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.

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: Exactly, and that was nearly eight years ago.

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: Is that not the point? Two statutory bodies reported on this matter almost eight years ago. The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission stated the system did not need to be confused as there were too many types of fixed notice charges. In the intervening years, however, more charges were added to the system. In 2014, at the height of the scandals into fixed charge notices when the...

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: Is it not a contradiction for the assistant Commissioner to say it did not matter who was watching given his earlier point that nobody was watching because the Garda did not have the people in place? When I pointed out that there was an assistant commissioner in place who had this specific brief in his portfolio, the assistant Commissioner stated the situation was a little disjointed. This...

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: It is in correspondence issued to the Garda, which we got under freedom of information, in which the medical bureau clearly points out that this is the case and that the process was ongoing, against the backdrop where the Garda had knowledge of the problem.

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: Perhaps it is the fear of outside influence, but the point is that the Medical Bureau for Road Safety had that information all along. It could do the tallies on the devices. There was all the searching around for information on the number of breath tests but the number was actually known if somebody had picked up the telephone and asked the bureau for the tally. There does-----

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: I agree that it is not its remit. However, is it not the point that all of these issues come back to a cataclysmic failure of management to oversee any of these processes or systems? There appears to be a lack of awareness of why they are there. Take the example of the MAT test. The report basically states, "we did the internal investigation, we are not really sure what has gone on here...

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: How does the Garda know that the checkpoints were conducted? The report says that it was paradoxical that the amount of breath tests dropped but the number of checkpoints went up. The report states this is surprising, but it is not surprising at all if checkpoints were not being carried out. My contention is that they were not being done.

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: Can the witness explain how the Garda had the officers of a certain rank, be it inspector or superintendent, in sufficient numbers to sanction the checkpoint but the manpower resources did not stretch to that same person concluding their job and finding out whether the checkpoint was carried out? Regardless of who is in the station, if I have authorised a checkpoint and when I arrive at the...

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: It is utterly shocking that to find out the Garda went to Canada and Wales yet nobody said to the superintendents in the stations: "Listen lads, if there is a return for a checkpoint there, we might want to make sure that they were not actually doing another job at the same time as they are claiming to have done a checkpoint." I am not blaming individual gardaí for this. The only way...

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: Mr. Finn is misunderstanding the point. A checkpoint must go up on the system to be authorised initially. If it is not carried out, the manual says that if the checkpoint is not done, it must be invalidated later. I know that. What evidence does the Garda have that all checkpoints that were not completed were invalidated? Based on the information they have given me, the witnesses cannot...

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: How would it do that? If I said I was on a checkpoint and I rang in and gave the GPS co-ordinates of the site - everybody knows the co-ordinates going out on these things - and I said, "I was out here, we stopped six cars, there was no issue", where are the checks to say that I was actually there?

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: Since when is that system in place?

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: Gardaí have told us that the checkpoint co-ordinates are well-known, so gardaí ring up and give the co-ordinates of where they are supposed to be.