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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: I was going to raise some points on ICT and such matters because some of the changes to PULSE have been given as assurance as to why we should have confidence now. The last time the Commissioner was here, he stated in response to Deputy O'Callaghan that IT was the biggest problem that the organisation faces. Particularly in the context of the amount being spent on the maintenance of PULSE,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: I would put it slightly differently. Even in some of the examples the Commissioner has given, there is a massive black hole that will never be filled. It is almost like a self-creating, lucrative maintenance project for certain private outfitters. He mentioned the rostering duty management system but he told the Policing Authority that was an off the shelf system. Accenture was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: That would be great. In particular, I have difficulty with the idea of paying Vantage Resources between €200,000 and €300,000 a month for PULSE maintenance - my God. On civilianisation, I know the Commissioner is going to tell me that, at last, the Garda has fulfilled what the Garda Inspectorate has asked for in moving the Garda National Technical Bureau to Forensic Science...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: Is the Commissioner confirming that scene investigation is going to be handed over as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: I have to correct the Commissioner on that. What is being said is that forensic examination will be done by the scientists but scene investigation will continue to be done by gardaí. The problem is gardaí do not have the expertise in serious crimes. It could be that the local garda who goes out to deal with a burglary will have to do the scene investigation, and that is then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: I do not think this is appropriate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: Will the Commissioner have the draft policing report ready for the meeting with the Policing Authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: Is Mr. Cleary writing that report? Who is the author?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: As the Commissioner knows, PULSE is for the Garda what the children's hospital is to others. I believe he can get to grips with the system, and I know he will revert to the committee with further information. The issue of tendering arises here. The Minister and the Commissioner's predecessor gave the committee commitments arising from the problems with the Garda internal audit into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: If a garda was the subject of a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, criminal investigation, would that be reason for an automatic suspension?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: There was a worrying report on RTÉ during the week about two officers who were being criminally investigated by GSOC for serious racist comments they made at an official Garda briefing. In that context, is the Commissioner aware that those officers are alleged to have also made very serious homophobic remarks, including against the Taoiseach? Are those remarks being investigated and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: Can I take it that the individuals in question have not been suspended?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: I suggest the Commissioner may need to review the Garda's policy in this regard.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: I know the Minister of State, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, is not the Minister who is responsible for this, but there is a real problem here. When will anybody ever be held to accountant? There are primitive, totally unacceptable conditions in which our young people are expected to be educated. It is intolerable. I am supposed to accept a response that says not to blame the Department, that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: It is shocking to think that this refurbishment and extension was planned before my daughter attended St. Finian's community college. She is now in her second year of college and many of the issues at the school are probably as bad as they were when she was a pupil, if not considerably worse. Just before Christmas I received a letter from transition year students who are taking a particular...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Airport Security (12 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: I think the Minister will be revisiting this topic in the future. All of us are in favour of enhanced security; it is under constant review. This proposal did not come from any audit or oversight at Dublin Airport. In fact, the constant improvements the Minister referred to have always excluded airport police and customs officials from it because contrary to his statement they are not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Airport Security (12 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: What is the response? Has the DAA contacted the Minister to offer a percentage of staff on an annual basis for this type of screening? It is a bit ironic that the airport police get reviewed every three years for security check and yet gardaí and Defence Forces members are walking through on a one-off security check. It is utter nonsense to hide behind the guise of security.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Airport Security (12 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: Has there ever been a complaint about the security risk of any airport police or customs officer? The Minister is missing the point. Members of the Garda and Defence Forces do not need to strip off and divest themselves of all their work clothing in order to do their job when they go through the security and X-ray machines, which the airport police and customs staff have to do. It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Airport Security (12 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 482 and 484 of 29 January 2019, if a response will issue on the treatment of members of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces as being exempt from airport security compliance on the basis that they receive once-off full background checks. [6350/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Airport Security (12 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: 66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration he has given to reinstating the Airport Police and customs back onto the security compliance list with the completion of full background checks; if he has been contacted by the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, seeking full background checks for its officers within the Airport Police Service from An Garda...