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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: While I accept 100% that the authority is an oversight body and not an investigative body, can Ms Feehily understand the public frustration that there is no oversight of what the Garda is doing with its money around ICT? Now that the public is becoming aware of it, there is huge disillusionment with the fact that this has not been overseen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: Is the Minister concerned that all is not well in this area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: Obviously, no-one in An Garda Síochána is prepared to take responsibility and the powers of the Policing Authority to hold it to account are limited. Does Ms Feehily have a concern as to who does make the calls on what is spent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: Is it the chief administrative officer? In her opening statement, Ms Feehily said that the authority appoints the members of the Garda Síochána audit committee. In September 2017, it appointed Joe Nugent as a member of the committee. As chief administrative officer, he has overall responsibility for finance in An Garda Síochána, which includes ICT. Joe Nugent is also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: Does it not defeat the purpose of an audit committee if the man whose decisions are being audited is on that committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: It does beggar belief. In the closing paragraphs of the chapter on ICT in the authority's most recent report, it is stated that the forthright way in which Garda ICT has laid out an unvarnished picture of the current situation in its interactions with the authority is to be welcomed. I am wondering if Ms Feehily stands over that statement. If ICT had given the authority an unvarnished...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: With regard to the report from the chief administrative officer on the history of email usage in An Garda Síochána and the mechanisms for protecting security, Ms Feehily said in her opening statement that she believed the evidence this committee heard recently from Garda senior management corresponds with the information supplied to the authority. I would be worried about that. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: As Ms Feehily knows, I have learned under a freedom of information request from Ms Hall that he actually did a report which he forgot he had done, not that there is a whole lot in it apart from some redactions. It did not really deal with the matter it was supposed to deal with. I got another email from Ms Hall which was very interesting, from 2016. It was sent to the authority and was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: Ms Feehily will be aware that during the debate on the establishment of the Policing Authority, Deputy Clare Daly and I were adamant that in terms of what was proposed, the authority would not have the requisite power or the independence necessary to enable it to be a real oversight body and to hold the Garda to account. Does Ms Feehily agree that the Government needs to take another look at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: As outlined by Ms Feehily, the legislation is poor in that the person in charge of the audit is also the person being audited. This must interfere with the authority's independence.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: 826. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if asylum seekers are entitled to driver licences; and the legal basis for this decision. [11964/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (20 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: 972. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 8 March 2018, the way in which and with whom a person might authenticate his or her identity in another face-to-face engagement; and the way in which the existing photographs utilised to complete the SAFE 2 process are acquired. [12578/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: I support the Bill and I support the repeal of the eighth amendment. Should the referendum pass I will support the recommendations of the committee and, for the most part, the contents of the Government’s policy paper. The first step, however, is dealing with the eighth amendment and this needs to be differentiated from the legislation to follow should the referendum pass. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (8 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: 544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have been offered public services cards each year since 2011 that did not go through the SAFE 2 registration process; the way in which this offer was made; and the number of public services cards issued to persons in this category in each year since 2011. [10839/18]

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: I give my full support to this important motion, which addresses a specific situation that has being unfolding, in particular, in the west of Ireland, for many years. There is not a tradition of harvesting seaweed off the coast of my area in south Wexford but, as I swim on Bannow Island on a regular basis and have to wade through 40 m or 50 m of seaweed before I get to clear water, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Chairman and I promise I will not be too long. The two submissions are very powerful and they speak for themselves. The committee has learned a lot from them. It does not do much to allay many of the fears we have around how An Garda Síochána operates. When Dr. Singh was before the committee he was at pains to talk about some wonderful co-operation and work at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: That is not just a learning curve. This is disingenuous, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: A member of the public would have to go through this with a fine-tooth comb in order to discover what actually transpired. Do the witnesses not think that this amounts to nothing short of a cover-up by senior management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: Earlier, Ms West stated:... on 12 May, 2017, as a direct consequence of the letter I had sent internally the day before, I received a telephone call ... I am unable to say who made this call. During this call, I was made aware that a report, which I had submitted on 11 April 2017 for onward transmission to the Policing Authority ... had never been sent to it. I was informed that this report...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: Has a process commenced whereby somebody will be made accountable for the situation?