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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: Is Mr. Purcell aware of any such incidents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: What we and the public find difficult to understand is why we cannot be told the truth because the truth in whatever fashion or manner it takes, unvarnished and all, is the truth. Nobody is asking Mr. Purcell to deviate from that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: My line of questioning is not implying that Mr. Purcell is telling anything but the truth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: I have a couple of questions. We are all waiting in line. In arriving at the position he is maintaining here regarding what he is prepared to answer and what he is not prepared to answer, did Mr. Purcell consult, take advice from or correspond with the Taoiseach, his own Secretary General, Martin Fraser, or any officials within the Department of the Taoiseach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: I ask the same question in respect of the new Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: Is Ms O'Sullivan suggesting, as part of the review, any new grades?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: New grades in the structure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: A final question. At any time since Ms O'Sullivan has taken up the position of acting Garda Commissioner or in her role in the latter weeks and months of her predecessor, Commissioner Martin Callinan, did any member of the senior management telephone, write to or communicate with Sergeant Maurice McCabe to tell him he is a valuable member of the force, a valuable employee and that the force...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: I thank our visitors for their engagement, which is very enlightening. As previous speakers said, we have had hearings attended by other groups. I would like to ask the visitors for their views on the thoughts of, and presentations given, by previous groups. I would like to ask Baroness O'Loan a question. Before GSOC's attendance at this committee, it made a number of public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: From her experience as the Ombudsman in Northern Ireland and her knowledge of GSOC, what is her opinion on the resourcing of GSOC given the relative size of An Garda Síochána? In other words, how well resourced was her office in terms of the complement or size of the PSNI as against the resourcing of GSOC and the capacity it has to do its job in the context of the size An Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: I thank Baroness O'Loan. I would like to ask the senior members of An Garda Síochána a couple of questions. I am not asking them for their personal opinions but for their collective view as a management team. I refer to the establishment of the independent policing authority. I am asking them about this because we all have an open mind on it, we are on a journey and we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: At what point does it become too big and too unwieldy? We see the images of the Northern Ireland policing board and it is two rows deep. Are we talking six, eight or ten people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: The last major review of An Garda Síochána was conducted by the Conroy commission in the 1970s which was to look at the structure of the organisation. What is the collective view on the current structure of the organisation? Is it top heavy or bottom heavy? Would Ms O'Sullivan like to see a reconfiguration of existing grades and the structure within the organisation?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: What about the banking inquiry?

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2014)

Niall Collins: We welcome the intent of the Bill. My party supports the principle of the establishment of an independent policing authority. We have discussed that recently in regard to the Guerin report. I have some comments that are relevant to the Bill. We have just had a local election that gave us all an opportunity to engage more with the public than we ordinarily do outside an election period....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Niall Collins: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a tutor in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Waterford. [23224/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (27 May 2014)

Niall Collins: 377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the exact number of persons employed in employment support schemes in 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [22365/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Niall Collins: 612. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the position regarding payment owed to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [22862/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 May 2014)

Niall Collins: 927. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist in reinstating a clinic (details supplied) in County Cork [23215/14]

Guerin Report: Statements (15 May 2014)

Niall Collins: Once it is not being done entirely by former civil servants I would agree with it. Otherwise it would effectively be a case of the guards investigating the guards, or a form of peer review which would not be acceptable. We have the Fennelly commission of investigation and we are told the Cooke review into the allegations of bugging at GSOC is imminent and may be published tomorrow. We will...