Results 41-60 of 74 for garda speaker:Colm Brophy

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 was fairly happy with the comments until this point but I have a real problem now. I always find that when organisations make mistakes, the mistake is made in a self-serving way. I hope An Garda Síochána does not go down this route. I am sorry but the assistant commissioner's answer is unacceptable. He started by saying that there was a cutback here and a cutback there and...

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: ...It is farcical that political parties which spend hours talking about which post office should or should not remain open would not wish to have an opinion expressed. The point is well made that An Garda Síochána is not to be politicised. The assessment and view of what should be done and how, coming back from the management of An Garda Síochána, is a vital part of...

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: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...been sanitised over the past number of decades. The original purpose of those security services was something that we would never like here. I would never be of the view that we should split An Garda Síochána into anything like that. On that basis there is a huge reservation and I believe most people on the street would be fearful of a situation where we would be left without...

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

Colm Brophy: I believe the authority has made a very valuable contribution to the development of policing. The point that Ms Feehily made about the code of ethics that new gardaí sign on graduation is important. It is work like that - the quiet work, the implementation work - that changes things, but that very often does not get the level of publicity it deserves. Such work will be to the...

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: Garda Pensions: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...is good, but some of the victims of that are often former or retired members or, as in this instance, members who might be due a pension after it has been deferred for a certain period. In the Garda and several other places in recent years, deferred pensioners and former union members have been poorly represented by their unions when reaching a final agreement with an employer. The...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (12 Apr 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...the start of the Minister's contribution but I am particularly interested in the IT expenditure budget. There is a substantial figure for it. It is a critical area, as we have seen with regard to An Garda Síochána over the last number of months. Will the Minister elaborate further on it and particularly on how expenditure this year might deal with some of the IT issues which...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (12 Apr 2017)

Colm Brophy: I have received feedback from people who have said the ability of gardaí to come back to them in a coherent way, across different shifts, and to update information has been transformed. It used to really upset victims of crime to deal with a Garda and then be told he or she was off for a few days, meaning everything would stop. There have been real changes in that as a result of the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colm Brophy: I seek clarification. I presume what is taking place is a legislative underpinning of what would be normal practice by An Garda Síochána and, I presume, fairly standard practice on busy weekends in urban stations throughout the country. I welcome it because I believe this legislative underpinning is the right way to go. It is more a reflection of our modern society and,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...what Deputy O'Callaghan said. Obviously, everything involves a balancing of rights. In this particular instance where we have so much experience of this, the particular power being granted to An Garda Síochána is absolutely proportionate and right.

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

Colm Brophy: ...tests, but she commands a force, and by her own statements, she has been conducting her own investigation that started approximately in 2014. She has come in today, and she has said that the Garda management has still not completed the audit. Does she think that is acceptable? I would be very interested to know if the Commissioner could give me a logistical breakdown on how many...

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

Colm Brophy: ...to why she did not do something. I asked how many people were deployed to the audit. She does not know. That is incredible. There are two aspects of this that are very important. First, the Garda conducted the initial audit in the southern region. Whatever about the time lag between the Garda management deciding to change processes afterwards, the initial audit was conducted in the...

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: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: My second question links to that matter, if Mr. Twomey does not mind. Six people started on the audit of the southern region. The Garda realised from that that there was a problem. How many people are now working on the audit?

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

Colm Brophy: The Garda has no one working on it. Is Mr. Finn telling me-----

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: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Colm Brophy: ...the Policing Authority, have any of those reviews been triggered by a report, investigation, complaint or anything that we should be aware of and causes Ms O'Sullivan to have a doubt about specific Garda data or are they just reviews?

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

Colm Brophy: Let me go back to my earlier question. If that is possible, does the Commissioner still think it is acceptable that, on foot of the first investigation into the southern region where she knew the Garda had such a problem, she has still not been able to supply proper full audit information to this committee, the Policing Authority, the Minister for Justice and Equality or anybody else? She...

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...