Results 181-200 of 503 for garda speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Can we have a copy of the report that recommended the reopening of stations and the methodology, the matrix and everything applied to differentiate between Garda stations?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is clear that it has reached a point where the Garda was in a position to make some recommendations to Government. I want to see the background, the data and the analysis of that please.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: ...process is "tender in progress". Without wishing to offend, it is a bit daft to say the reason for not having a process is that there is a process under way. Can Mr. Culhane tell me when Garda uniforms last went out to tender, in what year?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Garda not have control of tendering for Garda uniforms?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I hear that. Members of the Oireachtas have spoken vociferously on the recruitment moratorium and the lack of resources for the organisation. They have spoken even more loudly than senior Garda management. That basic data cannot be retrieved speedily in 2017 is a chaotic situation. That is my point. With respect, senior management should be shouting from the rooftops and not perhaps...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: They can go to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not inviting the Garda Commissioner to do anything of the sort. It would be entirely and wholly inappropriate to do so. I think we can agree it would be a most serious matter if it transpired that anybody - much less an officer of the law - had given incorrect evidence to a court and it would be all the more serious if it were done in a co-ordinated way. I think we can agree that that...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I am well conversant with the courts system. The Garda Commissioner is deliberately not answering my question. It is either the case that Assistant Commissioner Barry O'Brien is reviewing everything, including the grave matter of public concern around potential perjury or misleading of the court, which could not be more serious, or he is not investigating this matter and is simply looking...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Assistant Commissioner Barry O'Brien examining the allegation, worry and public concern that officers of An Garda Síochána gave misleading or false evidence to a court of law? That is a "Yes" or "No" question.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It is the kind of filibustering and evasion that damages the Garda.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach might take the opportunity when he gets to his feet to answer my question about the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, her communications with An Garda Síochána and its subsequent actions regarding the individual whom I mentioned. The Taoiseach is familiar with the matter, given that he has answered questions on it in the public domain. Will he make a fuller statement,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...be resolved? What manner of investigation or review is required to establish whether, deliberately or otherwise, there was a misrepresentation of the facts to a court of law by members of An Garda Síochána? This is an incredibly important issue and, unlike Deputy Micheál Martin, I do not believe the Taoiseach was being unfair to anyone in making certain observations. He...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: That is most uninspiring. The Taoiseach is treading the well worn path of Deputy Enda Kenny, a master of evasion who brought not taking decisions on Garda reform to the level of a higher art. Two things have been established and they are not in dispute. The first fact accepted by everyone, including the Garda Commissioner, is that she failed to comply with the Garda Síochána Act...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the position of Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O’Sullivan, and the virtual conveyor belt of crises that continue to engulf An Garda Síochána. It is no secret that public confidence in the Commissioner is in tatters. It is certainly not difficult to see why. The Commissioner has failed to tackle persistent malpractice and a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am trying to get clarity on a point. Mr. Ruane advised, in respect of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, that a disclosure be made under section 41. Ms O'Sullivan received that advice and then discussed, conferred, debated and deliberated on that advice with Mr. Twomey, Mr. Ó Cualáin and who else?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...excoriating in respect of Mr. Barrett. I think Ms O'Sullivan would recognise that the language is pretty choice and dramatic. The interesting thing is that the title of the letter sent is "Re Garda Síochána Act section 41 - Garda College". I find it very interesting that Mr. Culhane is having a right go at Mr. Barrett, up to and including suggesting that he may have broken the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is 55-262802/15. It is a letter from Mr. Michael Howard, chair of the Garda audit committee, to Commissioner O'Sullivan. I understood it was dated 19 April.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is there not a disciplinary procedure within An Garda Síochána? Are there not standard channels and mechanisms for dealing with either what the Commissioner describes as personality clashes or tensions between individuals or acts which would be considered offside and unacceptable by management and by the person in charge of An Garda Síochána?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of finance, Mr. Culhane, attempts to lean on and goes so far as to threaten legal action against the head of internal audit. This matter is then raised with the Commissioner by the chair of the Garda audit committee. Far from being decisive, the Commissioner failed to act.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Commissioner failed to act decisively. Is this not a testament to the failure of her leadership within An Garda Síochána?