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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Sep 2014)

Shane Ross: ...should be utterly critical of the principle of an internal report and the Garda should never again be allowed to undertake an internal report. The second one is the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, inquiry that is under way at present. Is there any reason the committee should be mealy-mouthed about its own findings or opinion as to what happened there, where its...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: ...about Deputy Wallace, which was not particularly damaging, was released. I am also referring to the fact that a confidential recipient was forced to resign today. In the penalty points saga, the GSOC saga and the whistleblowers saga there is a pattern of things being covered up, hastened or not released. The instinct of the Government is all wrong in respect of these matters. Instead...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: ...be interpreted as a very political decision. It will be seen in the light of an independent body appearing before another committee yesterday, that is, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. It will be seen that anybody who challenges the might of the Garda and the Government is silenced. That is not the sort of message the Committee of Public Accounts should be...

Reports of Unlawful Surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Statements (11 Feb 2014)

Shane Ross: ...Niall Collins and Calleary said to the effect that, as a result of public disquiet and concern about what is happening, there is a need for an independent investigation. Public confidence in the GSOC and the Garda is diminishing by the hour. The confidence the public has in this House, politicians or the Government to provide a remedy in respect of this matter has diminished to the point...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2013)

Shane Ross: ...early May, his performance was lamentable. He refused to answer questions put to him. When asked the real questions, he dived for cover. When he was asked about what the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, had found about the treatment by gardaí of informants and breaches of Garda Síochána guidelines, he said he did not wish to talk about those issues....

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: There is the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, with which the Garda is at war at present. I had a bit of a problem, which slightly alarmed me. I sent to the Commissioner's office a request for an explanation of how much it costs to run his office, which we told him we were sending him. That was in an e-mail dated 21 February. I have yet to receive an acknowledgement,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: We have to disagree. Okay, that is fine. GSOC is not happy with the Garda Commissioner; let us be honest about that. It is not happy campers with the Garda Commissioner. The Garda Commissioner may be fully accountable to it but it does not seem to think that he has accounted in time or that he has adhered to the guidelines.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: Obviously, the Commissioner is not going to say any more. Would the Commissioner consider asking GSOC to hold an inquiry into the penalty points? Would it not be better if that body, which is independent, or an outside body, came in, in view of the fact that an independent body has been so critical of the Garda Commissioner and his carry on recently in a very sensitive area, instead of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2013)

Shane Ross: ...Ombudsman is a devastating indictment of the activities of the gardaí in the drug trafficking informant case. One was independent and the other was not. I wonder what would have happened if the GSOC had investigated the penalty points system and the Garda had investigated the drug trafficker issue because Mr. Callinan has rubbished that report and said it is wrong. Some of us have...