Results 21-40 of 74 for garda speaker:Colm Brophy

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: 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...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Colm Brophy: ...have not done so in the past to consider that this is a time to choose. If a party sets itself up as a modern political party and as expert in so many ways on our Judiciary, our policing and our Garda Síochána, it must understand that dealing with the threats we face from organised criminals, paramilitaries and international terrorism is essential to An Garda Síochána...

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 Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: It is amazing to members of the public and of this committee that it can take from April to February of the following year for An Garda Síochána to prepare a report which the Policing Authority found acceptable. Although I accept what Ms Feehily says on the subject, to many people it seems - at least initially in the April presentation - some deliberately misleading information was...

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

Colm Brophy: ...? Ms Feehily seems to say she did nothing wrong and that the authority does not need to change anything. Does she actually believe that if in the future she receives a communication from either gardaí or civilian members of an Garda Síochána, a more robust effort should be made to determine whether it is a useful communication?

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

Colm Brophy: ...and that the reporting of the distortion in the figures has almost become out of proportion by comparison with the reality? Might this have come about because of the internal arguments within An Garda Síochána that have arisen because of the reports? Would it be accurate to take it from the way Ms Feehily phrased her opening remarks that the argument on classification is very...

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

Colm Brophy: ...involving the three reports and an 18-month period, the Policing Authority is still receiving the same types of treatment and reporting from what is at this point nearly the third reincarnation of Garda management, that it is still being handed material at 6 p.m. the evening before a public meeting, and that it is still unhappy with the data. It is absolutely disappointing and...

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

Colm Brophy: ...I have a couple of points I wish to touch on, and I will try not to go over issues that have been dealt with already. My first question is more relevant to Ms West who has been working with An Garda Síochána for ten years. What the witnesses have described of this sequence of events to us is very disturbing. Is this a completely isolated incident in Ms West's ten years...

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: 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: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Colm Brophy: Therefore, if it was not just serving Garda officers, would the witnesses' effective boss be the person present at those meetings?

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

Colm Brophy: ...Authority to a completely different aspect of it. This relates more to Ms Galligan's area. A layperson listening to anything like this would be knocking their head against a wall wondering how a garda cannot know when a homicide is a homicide and how a classification can be so wrong. I appreciate Ms Galligan gave us some very detailed information and alluded to the fact that there can...

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...

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

Colm Brophy: Okay. After the meeting was over and Dr. Singh had made his views clear, did anybody in Garda management come to Dr. Singh at the end of that day and apologise to him or say that he should have received that report and they regretted he did not receive it? I am fascinated to know why, even at that point, it took a week and a half - I am correct on that, as that is what Dr. Singh said-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Issues: An Garda Síochána (7 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...commissioner have already mentioned it but, especially on the day that is in it, I believe it is worth putting it on record. Listening to news reports on what it really is like to serve in An Garda Síochána offers perspective and reminds us of the debt of gratitude that we owe the Garda, because there is no other profession where members go out to work daily to serve the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...thousands and thousands of staff, but I am absolutely sure thousands and thousands of staff do not receive emails concerning high-level decisions, interaction between Ministers and between An Garda Síochána and the Department. I imagine that the number involved is very small, as Deputy Clare Daly alluded to.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (7 Nov 2017)

Colm Brophy: 487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which the cost of the fingerprinting service provided by An Garda Síochána is arrived at; if the fee is based on a cost-of-service basis or if this creates a revenue stream; the way in which the money received for these payments is spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45791/17]

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: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Colm Brophy: I will follow up on Mr. Ó Cualáin's answer. There is a problem with it. He stated that management in the Garda, particularly at divisional level, was applying pressure to ensure that enforcement took place in the form of conducting the tests to deal with the scourge of drink driving. One of two problems stems from that. Either management accepted reports from subordinates that...