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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: There were performance-related targets. It is on the public record that there were.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: No, for assistant commissioner up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: The AGSI criticised it at the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Therefore, we know targets were set.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Were some of those targets related to traffic?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Were payments made within the Garda without any performance targets at the time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Did they set their own targets?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Who were their bosses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: For the public record, we need to know if any of those targets related to alcohol testing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: -----because we know there is a statistical issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: We need to know that for the public record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: It did not relate to Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin specifically but it was at a position above chief superintendent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: When the Commissioner appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality I asked her if she had full confidence in statistics in light of the anomalies highlighted by the CSO and the Garda Inspectorate. She said she was confident that the improvements had been put in place. Does she want to qualify those remarks? I come back to the question as to why this has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: That is what he said previously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: It is important that that point is explored fully.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: Was inflating checkpoint breath testing data an organisational priority? We now know there were anomalies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: I think that is really important. Once PULSE started recording these data in 2009, we know there was a massive mismatch. If there was a cultural issue at the senior levels in terms of what was done, that might have been the trigger that drove this process in that window. In the context of what we have been given, it is unfortunate that we do not know anything before 2009. It is important...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Reserve (30 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: 37. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda Reserve numbers in each Garda division for each of the past five years and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15751/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Simon Communities of Ireland (29 Mar 2017)
Jack Chambers: I echo what Deputy O'Callaghan said about the work the Simon Communities of Ireland does on the ground but also how the organisation has been very positive in trying to advocate for solutions to the current homelessness and housing crisis. The Simon Communities of Ireland has done an excellent job and, hopefully, it can continue to do this on behalf of many people who are really vulnerable....