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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: The bankers' veto.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: When will it be up and running? That is the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Judicial Appointments (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: No. I do not.

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: The AA conducted a survey of 20,000 drivers and almost 75% of those believed that there were fewer gardaí on the road performing their functions. My question is linked to the wider functions of the Garda Síochána and comes back to the question of recruitment. Can the Minister give any indication on this occasion - he has given it previously, we have been down that road and he...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: Why did you not renegotiate it? Shame on you.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: This is highly unsatisfactory. This is so important that we have both sought to raise it through other avenues and we are being corralled into one minute for a supplementary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: I have not got 20% of the way through the issue. It is just not good enough. The gardaí cannot obstruct the Garda Ombudsman and the gardaí cannot investigate the gardaí. That is exactly what is going on. This is the proper forum to tease these matters out in the public interest.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: This is highly unsatisfactory.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: These are priority questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: I do not think the Minister has a problem with this.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: To help the Acting Chairman, could the Minister perhaps agree to having a session of statements and questions some time next week because this is very important? We are doing this in a constructive way.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: The Acting Chairman said we had eight minutes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: Will the Acting Chairman give us one minute each?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: The Minister made a statement on 9 May that he would convene a meeting between GSOC and the Commissioner. It is almost two months later and he has not said-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: It is six weeks since 9 May. The two net issues are, one, that there is non-co-operation between the Garda and the oversight body that we have established through the Oireachtas. Second, gardaí cannot investigate gardaí. There is the issue concerning Deputy Daly and non-co-operation in respect of her investigation which is in the public domain. There is also a case which came...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: Can I have a comment from the Minister on that? Is it good enough that the gardaí are citing security of intelligence, questioning why the Ombudsman is requiring information?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: Can we please have a degree of urgency from the Minister to sort this out in the public interest?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: 1. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions, if any, he has held with the Garda Ombudsman over criticisms of the response time of An Garda Síochána to queries by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28437/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: The establishment of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has shown that, in the main, members of the Garda do their jobs in a professional and upright manner. The statistics offer proof of this. Unfortunately, however, what has emerged from the report released by the commission on foot of section 80 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 which is now in the public domain is...

Debt Collectors Bill 2013: First Stage (13 Jun 2013)

Niall Collins: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the regulation of debt collectors; to provide for the exercise of control over the occupation of debt collector; and to provide for related matters.