Results 1-19 of 19 for gsoc speaker:Alan Kelly

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: It will not come as much of a shock to anyone watching or some people here that I have a deep concern about GSOC. I will preface my remarks by saying that the structures do not help and hamstring some of GSOC's work. I have a concern about the future of policing report and the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act because what is recommended here is not what is in here but a...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...and three months for the issue with the Garda training college, where the report came from this committee, to be sent to the DPP? I would like a quick answer as I am caught for time. Second, will GSOC clarify whether the referral to the DPP is about our report and its contents and the issue with European funds, or is it just one of them?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...floor. What has been going on here is deeply concerning. A number of cases have been brought forward and have been dropped and there other cases that obviously are not going to be referred to. Why is GSOC not, in the public interest, investigating what happened here? Why is it not investigating the investigators and investigating why these cases took so long? People's lives were...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: But GSOC can tell him he is going to be charged.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...of investigators. There is an issue in An Garda at the moment. It manifested itself during the Dublin riots, as I have said before. There is a circle of confidence, a quarter of which involves GSOC. I would really appreciate it if all the witnesses took on board the themes we are raising here today, considering that I have to dance on the head of the pin as regards specifics. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I am referring to cases that GSOC pursued that it felt were vexatious and should not have been taken by a member of the public.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...What was the number of internal investigations based on cases that were taken? How many were there in each of the past five years, and what was the outcome in each case? I am referring to where GSOC felt the need to investigate somebody internally as a result of their activities on files or otherwise. Third, considerable time has been spent on cases in Limerick. For each of the past...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: If judges themselves make comments like this, obviously, GSOC would not need referrals.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: How would GSOC not be aware of something that is in the courts in Ireland involving gardaí?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I know, but the public are watching this. If something appears inside in a court in Ireland where An Garda Síochána has been pursuing an investigation based on a recommendation of GSOC, etc., it is up in court and the judge then states that the way in which warrants and other issues were dealt with by gardaí was completely wrong, how in the name of God would GSOC not be aware...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: Yes. How would GSOC not be aware of a judge criticising the processes by which gardaí have done their business? How would that not come to GSOC's attention?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: Every utterance we make here is provided to us in some format. Where there is a criticism of some members of An Garda Síochána, that it would not be brought to GSOC's attention given the organisation it is and so that it could fulfil its remit, particularly under that component of public interest, is beyond my comprehension.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: GSOC does not have to monitor the courts. The media will do it for GSOC.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Alan Kelly: It is very rare that I stand up on the Order of Business but I feel desperately that we need as a Legislature to have a debate about the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. What is going on at the moment is outrageous. Its latest decision is to prosecute a garda for pursuing three members of a well-known criminal gang, with more than 200 convictions, because he did his duty...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...here, and I can verify this as of now, he still does not know what he is being charged with. We all know how the media had the story before his family did. We as a Legislature need to look at GSOC. We also need to ask ourselves in this Chamber who in the name of God, and I represent Templemore, would join An Garda Síochána when a garda is being treated like this. What are we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2020)

Alan Kelly: The Taoiseach has not given us much clarity on anything. I accept there are data protection issues at play. I also accept that the Data Protection Commission and GSOC will have to undertake serious investigations and there are wider issues concerning a citizen of the State, in this case, Deputy Cowen, but there is a process by which anyone gets information and it takes time. The Taoiseach...

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)

Alan Kelly: ...auditor, Mr. Kelly, gave the witness a verbal report on the area of EU-funded training programmes and projects and the witness yesterday received his written report on the matter and referred it to GSOC. Is that correct?

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)

Alan Kelly: Okay. This is a quick fire round. The Commissioner has referred the issues raised by Mr. Kelly last Friday and Monday to GSOC and the Comptroller and Auditor General, etc. She has also referred them to OLAF. Is it a source of embarrassment for her that a member of An Garda Síochána has, over the last number of weeks, referred these issues to OLAF and the European Court of...

Garda Commissioner: Motion [Private Members] (12 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...is a big statement from our party, given the amount of legislative change we have tried to bring about in recent times. There are too many bodies. They include the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, the Garda Inspectorate, the Policing Authority, the Department of Justice and Equality and the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Fitzgerald....