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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)
Mattie McGrath: ...send a clear message to the people who carry out these violent evictions with cruelty and impunity. They are a third force and should not be in this State. We are a sovereign state and have An Garda Síochána and the Army, who serve us well. Nobody condones violence from any source and I certainly do not condone it, but the fact remains that people are being driven to the brink...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)
Brendan Howlin: .... It really is a transforming moment for which we have waited a long time. There is one net issue, however. The report stated that the right mix of skills can be achieved by giving the Garda Commissioner the freedom to design his own team. It cannot be right for whoever is at the apex of the Garda Síochána to design and select the management team of An Garda...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: -----should have a CEO type model and the Garda Commissioner should be allowed to run the Garda in the same way as the CEO of any organisation is allowed to run it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Garda is not a business.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: It is not a case of hand-picking appointments and promotions. There will be a Garda board in place. One will see many organisations in the public and private sector with a CEO and a board. The CEO does not get to hand-pick key staff. That has to go through a board and there has to a proper recruitment procedure where people can apply for jobs.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: One development we want to see, of which I know the Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, is in favour, is more people coming in from the outside. We have a division in the Garda between sworn gardaí and Garda civilian staff. We want to put that together into a single organisation. We want to have in Garda top brass and senior management a mix of people, some who are sworn policemen and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)
Brendan Howlin: The report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland is a strategy to transform policing in Ireland. The report rightly notes that many people have very good relations with An Garda Síochána. We want to preserve everything that is right with An Garda Síochána. There is, equally, a need for large-scale, once in a generation reform and change in how the force...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: I thank Deputy Howlin and acknowledge his long-standing interest in reform of An Garda Síochána. I also acknowledge the work he did in driving that forward in the previous Government. We had a chance at Cabinet this morning to discuss the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. That was chaired, as Deputy Howlin knows, by Ms Kathleen O'Toole. We...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy has criticised the Garda. He has criticised the High Court for making the order, having heard the case.