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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I was going to make that point. If the sentence is a maximum of five years, it is rare that five years will be the sentence imposed. We are talking about the range, and the maximum will dictate that.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 11:In page 20, to delete lines 26 to 29 and substitute the following: “(2) (a) In proceedings for an offence under subsection (1), that where the body corporate in question stood to benefit from the commission of an offence under this section, by way of obtaining or retaining—(i) business for the body corporate, or (ii) an advantage in the conduct of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I take on board what the Minister has said. I have a view that section 18(1), and section 18 generally, might possibly have the same difficulty even as they stand in that if an organisation has the policies on paper, which appear to indicate that all the safeguards exist, that there is oversight and that the policies are, technically speaking, in place, but that a number of individuals...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I propose to withdraw it and the intention is to reintroduce something similar on Report Stage.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ar an ábhar céanna, cé go n-aontaím leis an mBille sin, is dóigh liom go bhfuil i bhfad níos mó ag teastáil. Maidir leis an raic atá ann faoi Cambridge Analytica, mura gcuirfear srian reachtúil ar na comhlachtaí seo, cuirfidh an chumhacht atá acu alltacht agus sceon ar dhaoine. Tá an Bille um Chosaint Sonraí 2018 ag dul...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Ms Feehily and Ms Hall for attending this afternoon. I must apologise because I will have to depart for another engagement as soon as I finish my questions. First, I wish to deal with the initial public presentation of the homicide report, or document, as Ms Feehily has referred to it, in April. It is fair to say that it was an extraordinary episode when taken in the context of...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I do not disagree with that, but I take it that Ms Feehily is saying it was quite extraordinary that the Garda analysis service was not consulted.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Ms Feehily. During the course of the testimony I put it to Ms West whether the fact that they were not consulted could be an oversight and she responded that she was not sure she could conclude it was an oversight. I must say I am inclined to agree. Does Ms Feehily believe that it was an oversight or that it was something else?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Does Ms Feehily agree, given the testimony received here two weeks ago, that it is very clear that the senior gardaí who were present at the Policing Authority meeting were perfectly aware of the disquiet of the analysis service but presented the document in any event? The complaints and concerns had already been presented to them. Does Ms Feehily agree that they would have been aware...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is quite extraordinary. I appreciate that Ms Feehily has to be even-minded. However, she has said that, had the Policing Authority accepted the testimony given to it, it would have been misled and that she believes it was not an oversight. For any of us listening to her and the testimony we received two weeks ago, it is hard to conclude that there was not an attempt to railroad the...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In her opening statement Ms Feehily made reference to her own knowledge-----

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In her opening statement Ms Feehily stated:Returning to the homicide review, the position is that the authority has many sources of intelligence and information regarding this homicide review - perhaps more than Ms West and Ms Gavigan [it should be Galligan] realise - and has done a huge amount of work. That is quite a cryptic statement. Will Ms Feehily elaborate on it?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I obviously appreciate that Ms Feehily cannot go into the full details. However, is it fair to say it was not a communication made directly or officially by An Garda Síochána with the Policing Authority?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ms Feehily can answer as she sees fit. The context of this disclosure or intelligence was clearly the basis of disquiet and concern at what was happening.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In her opening statement, Ms Feehily placed considerable reliance on a distinction between what she has described as the fact and detail of the disquiet of Ms West and Ms Galligan and the content of their direct communication. That is a fine distinction to try and draw. I want to put several quotes from the committee meeting on 7 March with Ms West and Ms Galligan. Deputy Jack Chambers asked...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I want to put one more quote from that meeting. Deputy Clare Daly asked:Ms West was told on 1 August by a member of Garda management that the Policing Authority was aware of her approaches and so on. Did Ms West find this strange? Ms West responded:That was in the context of a management meeting I was part of. It was raised with me as part of a wider management meeting. Obviously, there...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Surely there is a distinction between correspondence from the Garda analysis service directly to the Garda Commissioner being referred to the Policing Authority and direct contact between Ms West and Ms Galligan and the Policing Authority. Surely those are distinct.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It seems there is something missing here or something, perhaps, I am not understanding. In the phone calls which Ms Feehily has described and has detailed to us, it sounds as though the sensitive details of this were not necessarily discussed. As I say, there is clearly a distinction between official correspondence to the Garda commission and then across to the Policing Authority and the...

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Was it treated as fully confidential?

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Was there no indication conveyed to the Garda of the fact that such correspondence had been received by the Policing Authority, whatever about the content of it and the correspondence being treated as fully confidential?