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- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (10 Apr 2024)
Cormac Devlin: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the National Payments Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14271/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (10 Apr 2024)
Cormac Devlin: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance for an overview of tax receipts to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14270/24]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: I welcome the Commissioner and his team back to the committee. I might start with the issue of personnel, and senior management in particular. I understand there are regional commands in the northern, western, southern areas and in Dublin that are vacant. How many senior management posts are vacant at present?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: How long has that post been vacant?
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: So it is short term but there are plans, obviously, to fill it.
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: Therefore the full senior management is fully staffed.
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: Was the retirement of the director of finance planned or was it sudden?
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: Not the reasons but was it-----
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: That is the one from 2018?
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: On internal discipline or investigations, my colleagues raised the NBCI and its role. As Deputies, concerns often cross our desks by members of the force that cases are ongoing for some time. The Commissioner will probably be aware that I have sought the information through parliamentary question on the outstanding length of certain investigations by GSOC. That is outside of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: But how many with the NBCI-----
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: When was the anti-corruption unit set up?
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: Is the Commissioner saying that all the investigations in the internal investigation department of the NBCI have been transferred to the anti-corruption unit or are there cases outstanding under the remit of the NBCI?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: Okay. So they are the latter end of investigation.
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: On the volume of cases that the NBCI was dealing with, roughly how many would that have been annually?
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: So if I ask the same question of the anti-corruption unit, how many are we talking about? Is it double digits?
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: And that is for internal concern for members of the force who are -----
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Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: This is obviously very important and there has been some success in that in recent days. When the Commissioner gives us the information, it would be helpful to have it today. He will appreciate from our perspective, members are coming to us who are under investigation for a considerable time. Their being under investigation for such a long time without any real light at the end of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: I can appreciate that too. No one is saying that they should not be investigated but were I a member of the force and was involved in or the subject of an investigation, what is the chain of command? Is the assistant commissioner the person to whom the anti-corruption unit reports or is it directly to the Commissioner?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Cormac Devlin: What happens internally if someone feels their case has been ongoing for an inordinate time without any view of conclusion?