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Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2019)

Clare Daly: All of these amendments concern giving GSOC officers the same power as gardaí when they are acting as coroner's officers. As the Minister has explained, the amendments are for circumstances where it is more appropriate for a GSOC officer to act as an aid to a coroner, for example, where gardaí might be suspected of involvement in a death. I am happy to support all of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)

Clare Daly: ...structural changes, particularly legislatively, we are no further along the road. That is my view. My first batch of questions relate to the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland and the work of GSOC. The press statement issued by GSOC on publication of that report correctly, as far as I am concerned, pinpointed that a lot of what is said therein echoed what had been already...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)

Clare Daly: ...the current scenario with respect to the handling of protected disclosures. It is clearly a growing area in which the witnesses have been involved. What is the average timescale being looked at for GSOC to assess and come to a conclusion with a protected disclosure? I know they can be broad in range but what is the rough timeline? What kind of co-operation is being received from An...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)

Clare Daly: Did GSOC ask An Garda Síochána why it was not told about the issue and, if so, was it given an answer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)

Clare Daly: ...it is linked to Ms Justice Ring's statement that it was troubling that An Garda Síochána continued to conduct criminal investigations into its members without the knowledge or involvement of GSOC. Either the Garda does not know it is supposed to do that or it is something more sinister. This is very troubling. Ms Justice Ring referred to the new draft protocol and stated that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)

Clare Daly: ...all piecing together to form a very troubling picture. It is even more troubling given that we were discussing the same matters three years ago. At that time, we were a little more upbeat because GSOC had gone to the trouble of detailing the legislative provision that would have sorted out this matter. Now we see not only the lack of change in that respect and its impact on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 May 2019)

Clare Daly: ...of the members of the public who are not getting answers because the commission's hands are tied. The fact that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform did not take on board the information of GSOC's lived experience of the shortcomings, and that GSOC is not being consulted in the real sense about the changes that are due, really sums up the Department of Justice and Equality. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: If a garda was the subject of a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, criminal investigation, would that be reason for an automatic suspension?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: There was a worrying report on RTÉ during the week about two officers who were being criminally investigated by GSOC for serious racist comments they made at an official Garda briefing. In that context, is the Commissioner aware that those officers are alleged to have also made very serious homophobic remarks, including against the Taoiseach? Are those remarks being investigated and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: ...Why does the Minister not think the adequate beefing up of the Policing Authority to make it genuinely accountable is sufficient? He thinks the report is fine but there is nothing new around the GSOC recommendations. There is nothing new in a lot of the report, which is not a criticism of it. It is a pulling together of ideas which have been out there for a very long time. It pulls...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (17 Oct 2018)

Clare Daly: ...did not have sufficient legislative power. A number of the 50 recommendations are, basically, common sense but the Minister said he wanted a new complaints body, while the commission recommends a renamed GSOC with the powers that body has long advocated for as necessary to do its job properly. This is precisely the point made by Charleton. The legislation has been headed up and we could...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (2 Oct 2018)

Clare Daly: 275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the GSOC investigation into a matter (detail supplied) and in view of the fact that the former acting Garda Commissioner failed to respond to a request from the chairperson of GSOC, to issue the family with an apology. [39729/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (19 Sep 2018)

Clare Daly: 80. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will request GSOC to undertake an investigation of the activity of gardaí during an eviction at a location (details supplied) on 11 September 2018. [37983/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: ...last night in the debate on the appointment of the new Garda Commissioner. I refer to the Bill we recommended as part of our 2016 report that would give the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, more powers. Where is the Bill that was promised 18 months ago? The Minister keeps telling us he has been pushing it, but we have not seen it yet. I also refer to the business...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Síochána Oversight and Accountability: Minister for Justice and Equality (13 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: The problem is that again, the Minister said that he does not want GSOC to be in a position where it does not have the resources to do its work. However, it does not have those resources. On 8 June 2017, GSOC was given a commitment that it would be given the resources by the Minister. We are in June discussing the annual budget. More than half of the year has gone, and the commission has...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (12 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: ...That is what we are working with. If any group had a problem with that, they could have tabled it before now. That said, we obviously know that Mr. Sullivan is being proposed as replacement on GSOC for Mr. Mark Toland who departed to take up his role as head of the Garda Inspectorate last October. I wish to acknowledge the role Mr. Toland played. The Garda Inspectorate, itself, has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: ...year ago that the investigations have concluded. The Minister for Justice and Equality calls these organisations to account. It is a fact that An Garda Síochána breached existing protocols with GSOC and refused to hand over files for five months. It is a fact that An Garda Síochána refused GSOC's request to sit in on the disciplinary hearings on behalf of four...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: ...not know whether the Minister is playing dumb or he just does not get it. He will not escape behind this and this will haunt him unless he starts dealing with it properly. The Minister states GSOC needs time. It is the fifth year since this complaint was made. It involves gardaí involved in the heroin trade in the Minister's constituency. One young man has died - possibly two...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: ...on women in prison? I will raise briefly the systems in place in the Prison Service for protected disclosures. We will discuss the handling by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, of protected disclosures by gardaí under the next heading. With regard to protected disclosures for members of the Prison Service, of which there have been a number recently, is the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: I will not repeat the points about GSOC but €300,000 is not enough, that is clear. The Policing Authority receives €600,000, which is double that of GSOC. I would go so far as to say that the whole of the extra €600,000 allocated to the Policing Authority should instead be given to GSOC to allow it to do the job that it wants to. The points have been made about that...