Results 1-7 of 7 for gsoc speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., are blackguards of the worst type and that is exactly what they were. The Garda members should be empowered to do their job and they should not be afraid of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC.

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (12 Jun 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I wish Mr. Patrick Sullivan every success in his appointment, which I support. I, too, have questions with regard to the effectiveness and workings of GSOC. I am sure the Minister and members of An Garda Síochána are sick to death of the chipping away on the part of certain people regarding the role they perform. When it comes to An Garda Síochána, we should nail our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman and the Minister. Will the Minister confirm what knowledge he has about the statements that were made by GSOC where an impression was given that the security sweep was ordered because of comments made by a third party and that the third party is in fact the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Martin Callinan? For clarification purposes, will the Minister confirm if there was any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Government needs to make its mind up at this stage. It must decide whether it wants an independent ombudsman in power to investigate. Or does the Government consider GSOC and its offices to be a nuisance that it must put up with? Shall I keep asking questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Has the Minister been given an updated report from GSOC related to the investigations into who leaked the story in the first instance? Is it true that it is down to the seven people, as we have discussed already? When all of this is over if it transpires that there was absolutely no surveillance of any type on the building then that side of the story is a bag of smoke. The story then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...secretary of the AGSI, Mr. John Redmond, has already stated Mr. O'Brien has cast aspersions on the good character of the force and cast a slur on its members. I will now revisit the bugging of GSOC. If a person goes into a room and plants a device that is not supposed to be there, whether one calls it a "bug" or a "device" - one cannot get away from the fact that a bug is a bug - it...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: GSOC thought it would go away.