Results 1-20 of 74 for garda speaker:Colm Brophy

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2022)

Colm Brophy: On behalf of the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. As she will be aware, under section 26 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, as amended, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of Garda business, which encompasses all operational policing matters, including the allocation of resources. The Minister for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Colm Brophy: I thank the acting Garda Commissioner for coming before the committee. I want to echo what Mr. Ó Cualáin said in his opening remarks that it is important always to realise and remember that the members of An Garda Síochána are out every day, often putting themselves at risk, to enforce the law, and keep us safe as a community and society. In looking at what are major...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (24 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: ...which the Commissioner formerly served there was an extensive programme of the closing of police stations. There is obviously a very contentious issue around the closing or potential reopening of Garda stations. In the context of refocusing on communities, both in urban and rural areas and in the context of delivering the type of service the Commissioner described, what is his view on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...have quite a bit of support for some of the existing structure. The Public Appointments Service deals very much in the context of appointing very senior people to senior management roles. While a Garda Commissioner is needed, and I do not believe the person appointed must be a garda, what is actually needed is the appointment of a senior manager. The PAS has experience in filling such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Colm Brophy: The Commissioner touched on the role and impact of civilianisation. Obviously civilianisation is critical in freeing up gardaí to be front facing and relieving them from desk duties. Will Ms O'Sullivan enlarge further on the impact of civilianisation and how quickly she would like to see that happen and how she believes it will serve to improve the management structures and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...received after it became public knowledge. She stated: "My fear, and my real fear, is that this falsification is not confined to traffic data." Is any investigation audit process under way in An Garda Síochána that is examining data on a problem that is similar to these two matters, in respect of which the Garda has established an audit, and about which the Garda has not...

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

Colm Brophy: ...the committee. There are many questions and while my colleagues will inquire about other areas, I wish to focus on two areas in regard to Ms Feehily's opening statement. In her comments on the Garda report that was presented to her in April, her tone and the reportage of that meeting clearly indicated that the Policing Authority was unhappy with the report. Can Ms Feehily enlarge on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (21 Sep 2016)

Colm Brophy: ...somebody is dealing with a shop manager about a person who has been rude to him or her. I appreciate and fully accept that it was an analogy. The problem with that analogy is that members of the Garda are in a very different position in terms of how they interact with the public. The vast majority of serving gardaí are there to do their level best every day to protect the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: ...delegates for attending. I do not have that many questions in that I agree strongly with the gist of the presentations. Certainly, I support the emphasis on community policing and hope the new Garda authorities will advocate it as being at the heart of policing. My experience as a public representative, a councillor for ten years and then as a Deputy is that the community garda is at...

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

Colm Brophy: Just as a comment, rather than a question, to Ms West, I think over a ten year learning curve many of what were the very senior Garda officers recently would have been in the lower ranks, learning, I hope, before they got to their very senior ranks. I want to link the witnesses to this to bring the meeting up to this particular sequence of meetings we are going through. There seems to me to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Colm Brophy: I have a very specific question relating to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and the delay in responses. Mr. Corcoran specifically outlined a number of reasons there were delays in responding to GSOC. Is GSOC aware of that? I would certainly say the information given by GSOC to this committee gave the impression - I stand open to correction on it - that the primary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Colm Brophy: I agree that it is enormously important because it goes to the heart of the issue. The thread running through a lot of Ms Feehily's statements today is that while the former Garda Commissioner was attempting to bring in various structural reforms, there is effectively a systems failure at management level within An Garda Síochána. There seems to be a functional inability to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (24 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Commissioner for his answer and I acknowledge his remarks on investment going into the Garda. It is welcome to hear the Commissioner say that. In the IT area we have heard so much here over so many years and I particularly hope that the Garda will utilise the investment in IT to deliver some of the solutions that we need.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...it an oversight? Was it an oversight because the Commissioner thought it was not important enough to tell the Policing Authority? Was it an oversight because the Policing Authority is new and the Garda did not understand that it had to tell them? Was it an oversight because the Garda management decided it was just not going to tell these people? Why was it an oversight?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Colm Brophy: ...Commissioner and her colleagues for coming to the committee today to brief us. Before I start, I wish to express my thanks and that of everybody in the country for the work of every member of An Garda Síochána. The work of the Garda is at the heart of keeping people safe and protecting our country every day. Sometimes, when people focus on one or two specific issues, they...

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

Colm Brophy: I fully appreciate what Ms West has said. I appreciate and echo her sentiments that there are many excellent officers in An Garda Síochána who work above and beyond the call of duty to ensure the Garda delivers on solving crime and in its day-to-day work. However, I want to go back to the other part of what Ms West said. It strikes me, listening to the answer she gave - and I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Authority: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Colm Brophy: ...up on one or two issues. I am sorry to be direct but on a point made already, and I listened to the reply, I do not believe it is right that the authority engaged in the process mentioned with the Garda Commissioner to devise the plan. To be clear about where I am coming from, the authority's mission statement refers to the purpose of overseeing the performance of the Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Colm Brophy: For many years before being elected, I was a councillor in Tallaght working on the Joint Policing Commission, JPC. The work done by gardaí at all levels in making the community link is at the heart of why the Garda Síochána has such a good relationship with the community. We alluded to it when the Policing Authority came before the committee. In any reforms the Commissioner...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (24 Oct 2018)

Colm Brophy: I congratulate the Garda Commissioner on his appointment. We look forward to engaging with him and his colleagues in the coming months and, I hope, years. Does the Garda Commissioner believe there should be complete and full implementation by his management team of the recommendations made in the report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland? Are there aspects of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Colm Brophy: I will be brief as well, Chair. I express my sympathies to the Fox family and the members of An Garda Síochána on the death of Detective Superintendent Colm Fox. There is a limited amount I am going to go into here because a lot has been gone through, in some very good detail, by my colleagues. Some of what I have to say are just observations, having listened to the debate...