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- Topical Issue Debate: Medical Register (7 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: This issue concerns doctors and nurses from Ukraine who have arrived here. I understand that more than 165 doctors are here now who are qualified and who have been practising in Ukraine for several years. I do not have the number for nurses, but I understand many are here also. A register of these medical professionals is being compiled by a doctor working voluntarily. Originally from...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Apr 2022)
Colm Burke: At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health yesterday, the Secretary General of the Department of Health, Mr. Robert Watt, confirmed that it is not intended to appoint a new chair to the medical consultants contract negotiations. The chair who was there, Marguerite Bolger, was appointed to the High Court last September. Seven months later, we still have no chair. There are 838 consulting...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee and for the work they are doing for all the people working in their organisation. I refer to the details on queries handled. One of the issues I noticed is that in 2019, some 290 people came into the public office. In 2020 it was 51 and in 2021 it was down to 11. Is there any particular explanation for that sudden-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: If it is down to a figure of 11 meetings in the public office in 2021, then surely investigations were delayed as a result.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: That is a huge drop from 290 in 2019 down to 11 in 2021. Was Covid used as the excuse for not meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: I am confused. Is Mr. Hume saying that 290 people met in the public office in 2019? Does that mean those people were still communicated with in 2021, even though they might not have been met in the public office?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: The figures are getting confusing and the way they are presented sends up alarm bells. Is that a true and accurate presentation of affairs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: I refer to complaints that GSOC is investigating. Is there any litigation pending where applications have been made to restrict GSOC from carrying out an investigation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: An investigation can be started but is there any litigation pending where someone has made an effort to restrict GSOC from carrying out an investigation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: It could be indicated to a person that an investigation was going to be started. Has there been a scenario where someone has gone to the courts looking for GSOC to be restrained from carrying out a further investigation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: But are there current applications pending?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: Can the witnesses give me the number of those currently pending?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: But there are a number of cases pending.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: Have a number of cases been determined where orders were made which prevented GSOC from carrying out investigations?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: GSOC might give us a briefing note on that issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: The issue of judicial review is used and people have that right, which I accept. However, it would be interesting for the committee to know what the level of those applications is. I will move to a letter we got in December 2021, which related to difficulties because of industrial relations disputes among senior gardaí. What investigations were impacted as a result of those...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: That issue is now resolved and no further delay is occurring at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: What is the effect where there is a delay such as this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: We could be talking about a delay of between six and nine months in some investigations.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022) Colm Burke: After an investigation has started are there delays in getting information from the Garda Síochána? Could a better system be in place to ensure GSOC gets information in a timely manner? For argument's sake, simple issues can arise such as someone being out on sick leave or someone being seconded to a different location or role. Does this affect GSOC getting information when it...