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- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Minister is doing his duty with the PSO by increasing it. The Minister for Social Protection is doing it in terms of the rural transport scheme. The unions and management say there are efficiency matters that need to be discussed and the place to discuss those is at the WRC table.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: It is important to note that the trade unions and the management of Bus Éireann - both sides - have publicly acknowledged that there are efficiency issues in Bus Éireann. This is precisely why the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, is still available for talks to resolve the dispute. It will not be resolved on the streets. It will only be resolved around the table, where all...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----by increasing PSO funding. The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, is doing his by examining the funding of the free travel scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: Where the Minister, Deputy Ross, can act and where it is appropriate to do so, he has done so. Realistic negotiations between management and the unions are required to solve these internal issues, and that opportunity is available to them at the WRC. Very many people are inconvenienced by the dispute. It is causing much stress for people who have lost access to any public transport at...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy made the point that these are facts.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: That is true but we need to find out how those figures were accumulated because if breath tests were carried out on the roadside, there was a process involved and there is clearly a major difference between the number of breath tests that were carried out and the number that were reported.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: If these figures are accurate in every region of the country-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----then we need to know how that happened and on whose instructions that happened. I think that is a fundamental issue that goes to the heart of confidence-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----and integrity in An Garda Síochána and I am sure Deputy Howlin would think likewise.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: While the figures in terms of discrepancy speak for themselves, the question that needs to be answered is how those figures were accumulated. In what circumstances were those figures put down? In what circumstances were they put on the Garda website?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: These are the issues that need to be addressed not internally but externally.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: That is an issue that the Government decided should be done today and for the future. It is not a question of bringing in legislation for the Policing Authority. It has its oversight role by law-----
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----and the inspectorate's report and the other reports are being overseen and implemented by the Policing Authority.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: My understanding is that the Policing Authority chairperson will meet the Garda Commissioner later this week and I am sure that is a matter that will be discussed by the two of them.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Howlin and I agreed on several issues relating to this previously and he has been clear on that. It is not acceptable that people were wrongly convicted. It is not acceptable that people did not get a letter indicating the option of accepting the penalty points and paying their charge but were summoned to court. In some of those cases, those charges were dismissed because they did...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The systems have been put in place, as was evidenced by gardaí in the past few days, to deal with that for next year and beyond. We need to find out what happened in this case? That can only be done by an external examination outside of An Garda Síochána.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputies opposite may well shake their heads. Somebody has to find it out, however, and that is what the Government decided this morning. It is not good enough that nobody is answerable here. Can we not determine what the facts are and the truth, more importantly, about those facts? I understand Deputy Ó Caoláin has summoned the Garda Commissioner to attend the justice...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's last comment was the subject of a sworn inquiry, which determined the outcome there. In respect of these issues here, it was pointed out at the press conference held by the senior members of An Garda Síochána that the solutions to the problems that were identified here, whereby figures are clearly not accurate or true, are now in place for 2017-18. We will find out...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: -----reformation of ongoing issues is undertaken. That is why the Government today reflected very seriously, despite Deputy McDonald's shaking of her head, on the structure and nature of the Garda force for years to come.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Enda Kenny: We need to get this right and the Deputy and her party will have a part to play in this. The authorities will talk to the Deputy about it and to her leader, as with the leaders on this side. I hope we can have agreement from the Oireachtas about the nature of how we should have that process put in place to bring about a sense of confidence and trust among the ordinary people of the country...