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- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Of course, the judge's full report, unredacted, will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and will be discussed by them because, from a Government point of view, what we need here is to look at all of these papers, statements and technical reports and see, arising out of all of this, what is best to do.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: In the meantime, Deputy Stanton's committee will reflect on the efficiency, effectiveness and robustness of the law, take into account public hearings from those personnel and others who have been forthright about their views on the law as it currently stands, and make recommendations to the Minister for Justice and Equality.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is not an inquiry for calling witnesses.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Of course, the judge will have at his disposal the opportunity to have expertise available in respect of complex technical equipment.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is not an inquiry under the 2004 Act.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is an opportunity for a judge of the High Court to review all of these papers and present-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----a completely objective and independent report to the Minister for Justice and Equality in the interests of sorting this out.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: Under section 103 of the Act, where an investigation of public interest into the Garda is initiated by GSOC, it is required to report. The Minister for Justice and Equality will go before the Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions. That committee was set up by this Government and it now deals with this purpose. The Minister has no difficulty in going before the committee to...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Government considered the matter this morning. The Minister briefed the Cabinet on the events that have occurred in the GSOC controversy following from the committee's hearing last Wednesday. He also briefed the Cabinet in regard to further information and documentation received from GSOC since then and further technical information he has received regarding the alleged surveillance of...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and to inquire into all matters of relevance. It is more than two weeks since this controversy developed. The Minister announced that he would be bringing to Cabinet a number of amendments to the Garda Síochána Act 2005 relating to GSOC and it was agreed at today's Cabinet meeting that the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality will be asked to hold hearings for...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I suggest to Deputy Martin, as leader of the Fianna Fáil Party, that if he has information about the maladministration of justice in this country it is his duty and bounden responsibility to bring it to the notice of the Minister for Justice and Equality.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I advise the Deputy that if he has information to back up what he has just said in this House as the leader of his party, he has a duty to bring it to the notice of the Minister and to do so in person. That has happened on many occasions previously. I was speaking about the appointment of a retired High Court judge to review all of the documentation and reports that have been produced on...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I said: "to review all of the documentation and reports" under terms of reference set by the Minister for Justice and Equality -----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and the Attorney General, to report to the Minister within eight weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: If Deputy Martin wants to question the independence of a High Court judge, he can do so. The judge will look at all the documentation, the process, the technical reports and the statements that have come from everybody in a completely dispassionate and independent way and report to the Minister in the next eight weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I repeat that if Deputy Martin has information about the maladministration of justice in this country, he should bring it to the notice of the Minister for Justice and Equality.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I reject the Deputy's assertion that the Minister for Justice and Equality set out to deliberately undermine GSOC. This is a matter on which there has been a great deal of confusion in the last period.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: I apologised to the House for the reference to section 80(5); I had misquoted the section of the Act. However, the point is that in regard to the responsibility of GSOC which is to oversee the Garda Síochána, when GSOC initiates a public investigation into a matter of public interest, it can only be about the Garda. In that sense, section 103 states that the commission shall...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Bodies Issues (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: No official body under the aegis of my Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland collected by www.pricestats.com.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Local Authority Functions (18 Feb 2014)
Enda Kenny: My Department has not conferred any new powers on, or functions to, Local Authorities since this Government took office.