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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are happy with that. The figure jumps out at me. Perhaps somebody was charged with not paying insurance and handed the money to the Garda to pay over. It appears in the accounts every year but it is unusual. It is listed under income received by An Garda Síochána. The Garda might revert to us with a note in that regard. Does the Garda provide escorts for the movement of...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Can Mr. Ó Cualáin clarify one last question for me? He said it is ultimately a matter for the Garda Commissioner to make a decision regarding the reopening of a Garda station. The Garda has proceeded and commenced the process with the OPW for consideration of Stepaside. There were a number of other stations on the list that the Garda sent to the Department of Justice and Equality...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will go to Deputy MacSharry next. An Garda Síochána was following the process in the programme for Government for reopening Garda stations and had a shortlist of six. Could the acting Garda Commissioner just explain how An Garda Síochána came to the decision to only open one?

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (5 Apr 2007)

Seán Fleming: Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the strength of the Garda force employed in County Laois; the number of community Garda by location; the increase in Garda numbers in this division between 1997, 2002 and to date in 2007 and the Garda stations in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13848/07]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...section. It is important that we know what the amendment refers to. I will proceed with section 91. It states that if a complaint concerns the death of or serious harm to a person as a result of Garda operations or while in the custody and care of the Garda Síochána, the Garda Ombudsman shall immediately direct a designated officer to examine the complaint under sections 95...

Ramming of Garda Vehicles Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: .... I presume the legislation can in due course move to Committee Stage where the drafting issues etc. can be teased out in further detail. This legislation asks the Oireachtas to support the Garda Síochána in its difficult job. The job is difficult in urban and rural areas. The gardaí need to know they have the support not just of the Parliament but of the people....

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (15 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 459: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that he stated on the 19 April 2011, that the Garda investigation file remains open in regard to the bombing in Belturbet, County Cavan, on the 28 December 1972, and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Garda were not given hand torches on the night of the bombing, the reason the Garda stated that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (26 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements in place in which Garda stations are not open and a person makes a phone call to that local Garda station; if these calls will be automatically transferred to a further Garda station in the region that is opened on a 24-hour basis and can answer the phone calls; if they are not directed to another Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board: Financial Statements 2015 (21 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is a matter for the Garda. Let us be clear. The Comptroller and Auditor General produced this report. In normal circumstances we would look at this situation. In the interim the matter has been referred to the Garda. One could make the case that we should not be discussing the matter because it is before the Garda, but we decided to discuss the matter within very limited strictures....

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...A.1. Subhead is a settlement of €12.5m to the Revenue Commissioners in December 2011 in respect of a legacy liability covering taxes applicable to certain allowances and expense payments made to Garda members in the period 2009 to 2011.How did the Garda Síochána which is supposed to uphold the law of the land get itself into such a situation? How did that come to be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: If there is a legislative reason it cannot be done, that is our fault rather than the Garda's. I wish only to clarify the issue. People often find the following matter curious. The Garda received an income of €83,000, effectively as commission for collecting insurance premiums on behalf of insurance companies. Is that car insurance or something else? Why is the Garda collecting...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (18 Feb 2015)

Seán Fleming: I know the Garda will make that call after the discussion. Have there been any discussions between the Taoiseach's Department and the Garda authorities on security for the Taoiseach or the Government along the lines of those that have taken place between the Garda and the President's office?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Seán Fleming: If wrongdoing by members of An Garda Síochána in Jobstown or subsequent to that event is alleged, it will be a matter for the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission to do the investigation, rather than the Garda.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: The former Garda Commissioner told us here on the last day that she did not have the report but that the witness, the acting Garda Commissioner, did. Was it the acting Garda Commissioner's decision to reopen the station?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Has the acting Garda Commissioner ascertained when the Garda decided to reopen Stepaside Garda station?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (10 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Was there some arrangement in place where the Garda got free mobile telephone calls for official Garda use? There used to be some arrangement whereby, in return for the companies' use of the masts, the Garda did not get bills for official mobile telephone calls. Is that arrangement in place?

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (18 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 1006: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a Garda Superintendent will be re-appointed to the Abbeyleix District Headquarters, County Laois; the position regarding the maintenance of services and Garda numbers in Abbeyleix Garda Station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18740/12]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...come back to it next week. We have done No. 603B regarding Caranua. No. 607B, (i) to (iv), is correspondence from the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Committee’s examination of the Garda Síochána Templemore issue, including a briefing note on the accounting officer's obligations, which is dated 7 July 2015, from Michael Culhane. It has been referred to and...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Regarding those others, the six that are on that list that the Garda sent to the Department of Justice and Equality, the Garda has actually made some initial moves regarding all of them. In the first instance, the Garda has told the OPW: "Please, do not sell those. We are looking at those for reopening."

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: I want to deal with a particular aspect of this debate, on which issue Ministers have made public comment during the past few days, namely, how the Garda Síochána fits into the Protected Disclosures Bill 2013, Second Stage of which is currently before the Dáil and may conclude this evening. On 4 February 2014, some three weeks ago, I contributed to the Second Stage on the...