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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: She is acting Secretary General.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: Yes, I expect the process to be formally under way over the summer. I acknowledge the change and implementation group working on future reforms in the Department and I expect the report in the next few weeks. That will have a bearing on the position of Secretary General.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: It was just prior to Christmas. I do not accept there is a delay, rather I am awaiting the first report of the change and implementation group, which I expect in the next few weeks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I do not accept that comment if it is tendered as a criticism of the Department. I acknowledge the full powers and authority of the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: -----Secretary General.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: The change and implementation group, under the external chairmanship of Mr. Pádraig Ó Riordáin, has been working and engaging actively over the past few months. It will present its report within the next four weeks. That will chart an exciting course of reform within the Department for the foreseeable future.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: The changes in practice and procedure to ensure the effective and efficient running a substantial Department are ongoing. A specially designed committee within the Department meets on a regular basis. It ensures the process works in tandem with the externally chaired change and implementation group. The recommendations of the Toland and EY report will be implemented over a period and will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: There is a management group meeting every week in the Department. I attend many of them, schedule permitting. The group considers many of these reforms, some of which are in place. We are awaiting the first report of the change and implementation group, which will chart wider reform within the Department. I reject any suggestion by the Deputy that there is absent Secretary General, as he...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: -----to the acting Secretary General, who appears before this committee and is in a position to answer for herself on her stewardship. I have every confidence in the acting Secretary General. Nobody is absent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: Yes, it has been split into subgroups.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: We are awaiting the report under the external chair of Mr. Ó Riordáin. There is no delay in the appointment of a Secretary General. If the Department is going to be subject to the type of reform expected, it is entirely reasonable that we would await the report of the change and implementation group prior to embarking on appointing a permanent Secretary General. In the meantime,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: It is under way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I again point to the change and implementation group, which has external engagement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: Yes, I have.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: It is under way but probably not complete. It is under way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: That is also under way but I am unsure if it has been completed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)
Charles Flanagan: I will have to revert to the Deputy on that question.