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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)

John McGuinness: ...to the matter because serous concerns have been raised. 3B.2 is correspondence, dated 5 November 2014, received from Mr. Michael Keane, Milltown, County Galway, concerning complaints regarding St. Paul's Garda Medical Aid Society. We have further correspondence on that issue today which we will bring to the attention of An Garda Síochána and the Department of Justice and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Dec 2014)

John McGuinness: ...the record with the Transparency International. Second, it is important that this person be informed that the documentation has been widely circulated in the context of it going to Revenue, the Garda, Members of the House and so on. We cannot be responsible for what appears in the newspapers. 3B.6 is correspondence received from various sources regarding the failure of the NMBI to...

Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: .... It says a great deal about the State that a foreign national whose story will be told next week and the week after and who was violently raped in the State was not even recorded in the hospital or Garda system as a rape victim. The pictures of the woman are horrific. One would not have to be a qualified medical practitioner to look at this woman and understand that she was treated...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Nov 2014)

John McGuinness: ...investigated and that the terms and conditions associated with the allowance were matters for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I understand there is also a note on the matter from An Garda Síochána. No. 3B.4 is correspondence, dated 12 November 2014, received from the HSE on the possible misuse of public moneys at Positive Action. The correspondence is to be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Procurement Contracts (21 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: 346. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the last time a tender was sought through the Garda tender system for towing and management services; the number of those that participated in the process; the timeframe for such a tender process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40412/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: Can we clarify if there is a Garda investigation?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2014)

John McGuinness: From my point of view on the report, I wished to raise the issue of the internal Garda report. I agree with Deputy Ross that the day of internal reports or secret reports or reports that are kept secret is over. Any reports that are conducted privately and produced on this kind of matter, as well as on the loss of revenue to the State, should be publicised. There is an issue in respect of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2014)

John McGuinness: Yes. We will proceed. I proceed to correspondence received since our meeting on 18 September 2014. 3B.1, correspondence, dated 3 September 2014, from the Acting Commissioner of the Garda Síochána regarding reply to query on outsourcing of speed cameras, to be noted and a copy forwarded to Deputy Niall Collins who worked with the committee on that issue. 3B.2, correspondence,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2014)

John McGuinness: ...Council? Agreed. Today we have to examine the three draft reports, one of which is on penalty points. We said at the last meeting that we would wait for the report on the current issues from the Garda Síochána but apparently it will not be available for some time. It is proposed to conclude our work on that issue. We can return to it by way of our normal work with the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

John McGuinness: An investigation is ongoing and we are to get a copy of the report. That is the up-to-date position, as I understand it. We can arrange a meeting with the acting Garda Commissioner to go through the latest information when we have the report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

John McGuinness: I do not think we can conclude our report without consideration of that. We can only consider the concluded report when the Garda investigation is completed. This is very different from how we started - we started with a private hearing involving Sergeant McCabe and we were unsure. Then we received the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and got full information. This is new...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

John McGuinness: I understand the Garda is dealing with this as an urgent matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2014)

John McGuinness: ...the HSE relating to further information requested at the Committee of Public Accounts meeting of 3 July. This is to be noted and published. There is correspondence dated 2 September 2014 from the Garda Commissioner regarding information requested at the Committee of Public Accounts meeting of 10 July. This is to be noted and published. There is correspondence dated 8 September 2014...

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)

John McGuinness: It would. The delegates might also indicate in the note whether the individual who is secretary of this society and is presumably paid the appropriate rate of pay as a garda is also in receipt of a separate payment for his or her role as secretary. In addition, will Mr. Culhane check who pays the assistant secretary and whether there is a pension liability in respect of those two roles?...

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)

John McGuinness: That will be fine. My next question relates to the local policing committees, which see members of local authorities, Oireachtas Members and gardaí coming together to oversee policing in communities. Are these committees a draw on Garda resources in terms of the number of members of the force, including senior officers, who have to attend meetings? Or are they functioning well in...

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)

John McGuinness: ...clarify whether there is a new unit within the force, perhaps attached to the drugs unit, which uses dogs to inspect post offices and courier companies? Is that a dedicated unit within the Garda or is it a unit of the Customs and Excise service?

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)

John McGuinness: ...that bringing cases costs them a great deal but the fines are never paid. There is a breakdown somewhere in the system of applying the law, whether it is a question of legislation or of the gardaí pursuing or not being able to pursue the case because they lack the power. If that is so and there is a weakness in the legislation I encourage the Acting Commissioner to come forward and...

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)

John McGuinness: Did the Garda Síochána provide funding for members of its force to go to America for appropriate training on this?

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)

John McGuinness: Would the Garda consider profiling one of these cases in such a public way as would draw attention not only to the case but to the issue of missing persons, as they do in America with notices on milk cartons and flyers and so on?

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)

John McGuinness: Does the Garda have a budget to do something like that each year? Or does that have to be set aside in the year to meet the publicity costs?