Results 41-60 of 548 for garda speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (28 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality given the serious allegations concerning misconduct by An Garda Síochána and inadequacies surrounding a case (details supplied), and given the need for the probity and independence of the Independent Review Mechanism, if she will authorise publication of the report prepared in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: White Collar Crime (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am mindful that what the recent Garda Inspectorate report said about the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation is very worrying. It said the GBFI was struggling to cope with the scale of the number of cases brought before it and recommended change in respect of the bureau. In 2014, Remy Farrell, SC, heavily criticised the lack of resources available to the Garda Bureau of Fraud...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: White Collar Crime (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...and respected commentator, Elaine Byrne. She proposed having an independent audit of the capacity of the oversight agencies to do their job, namely, the Criminal Assets Bureau, the ODCE, the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigations, the Central Bank, the Revenue Commissioners, the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, NBCI, and the Competition Authority. She suggested overarching...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is the Garda Inspectorate's press release on the official launch of the Changing Policing in Ireland report. It states:A large number of them have not yet been fully implemented and therefore the envisaged outcomes have not been realised. The Inspectorate is of the opinion that many of the policing issues that resulted in inquiries, tribunals and government reports could have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...one of the key issues is under-investment. This Government has not invested in the past five years. Hopefully, that will change in the next period. There are also massive structural issues in An Garda Síochána. Many of the challenges we face - "challenge" has been a kind word in recent years - are down to mismanagement and our front-line gardaí being failed by a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 2. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the commentary in the Garda Síochána Inspectorate's report, Changing Policing in Ireland, that there has been a repeated failure by An Garda Síochána to implement recommendations for change from its previous reports and from other reviews and inquiries; the actions she is taking to ensure the recommendations in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Inspectorate Reports (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: My question pertains to the Garda Inspectorate report, Changing Policing in Ireland. It seeks to get a sense from the Minister as to how she intends to implement the recommendations considering the highly worrying commentary by the Garda Inspectorate that many recommendations it has put forward in previous reports and from other investigations and inquiries simply have not been implemented....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (27 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 28. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to facilitate an appeals process to the independent review mechanism that has examined allegations of malpractice by An Garda Síochána. [3041/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (26 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...not request the exhumation of a deceased person (details supplied); if she will issue an exhumation order; if she will request an independent inquiry into the serious allegations made against An Garda Síochána regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of the person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3275/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (20 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will provide statistical analysis of the outcome of the deliberations by the independent review panel of the hundreds of allegations of Garda Síochána malpractice. [2425/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (19 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 295. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí serving in each Garda Síochána station and each Garda Síochána district in each of the years 2007 to 2015. [2226/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...solution-oriented. I merely refer to the failure to implement previous recommendations. I refer to the fixed-charge notice or penalty points report and the crime investigation report in which the Garda Inspectorate outlined a structure of a working group that would oversee the implementation of recommendations. For me, it is not an issue of Garda management; it is an issue for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To summarise, essentially, Ms Fisher is saying the Department of Justice and Equality is to oversee the various bodies - the Garda Inspector, the Garda professional standards unit, GPSU, the Garda Ombudsman and the new policing authority - to ensure that they are complementing and, collectively, overseeing the process of change as best they can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Ms Fisher for that. My second question relates to the worrying fact that the Garda bureau of fraud investigation has no cyber-crime unit, and the Garda Inspectorate, in a previous report, recommended a new system replacing the PULSE system. The inspectorate acknowledges that such a new system is subject to available resources, but we understand that hundreds of millions of euro...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...recommendations were made. I am interested in the area of statutory exemption for emergency vehicles. My understanding is that it applies to members of the fire service, ambulance service or An Garda Síochána who receive a fixed charge notice while in an emergency situation, that is, they are in the process of saving someone's life or preventing a criminal action taking place....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In January of this year, the Garda professional standards unit, GPSU, finalised a report on penalty points, which had been analysed, and statistical breakdowns were provided. There were hundreds of cancellations over the course of a year in respect of statutory exemptions and emergency vehicles. Would it not be prudent to audit these statutory exemptions? It would not be a huge amount of...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will provide the evidence to the appropriate body but I am asking the Minister to request that the Garda Inspectorate immediately review all terminations of penalty points in 2015. In January, the GPSU completed its audit, which examined the issue of statutory exemptions of emergency vehicles that allowed members of the Garda Síochána to avoid penalty points. It considered both...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I support the amendment. I was also alarmed to learn from the Garda Inspectorate report that even though a code of ethics was signposted in the Garda Síochána Act 2005, it is still not in place ten years later. I am sure the Minister will agree that report was a damning indictment of the repeated failure of the management of An Garda Síochána to implement recommendations...

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 61:In page 12, line 16, after “of” to insert “Garda Commissioner, Deputy Garda Commissioner,”.

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I move amendment No. 73:In page 15, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:14.(1) Section 14(1) of the Principal Act is amended to be read as follows:“(1) The Garda Commissioner may appoint, subject to and in accordance with the regulations, and subject to oversight by the Authority, such numbers of persons as he or she sees fit to the ranks of garda, sergeant and inspector...