Results 1-15 of 15 for gsoc speaker:Luke Flanagan

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: ...the Garda Síochána are being connected. Can we have overnight legislation on this? An amendment to the Garda Act 2005 would allow serving members of An Garda Síochána to make a complaint to GSOC. It is suggested that in section 82 of the 2005 Act, " "member of the public" means a person other than the Garda Commissioner and includes serving and former members of An...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: ...under the Garda Síochána Act by a serving member of the Garda with a serious allegation of corruption within the national drugs squad. This morning, I brought the evidence I was presented with to GSOC, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, in the company of former garda, John Wilson. However, the problem we have is that the garda who gave me the evidence is...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: He was subsequently followed down the street by the unmarked Garda car. What was all this about? It is bad enough that the independence of GSOC is questionable. For the people about to report an incident to be put under surveillance by an unmarked squad car is, to say the least, astonishing. As the leader of this country, what will the Taoiseach do about this, bearing in mind good people...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: ...for doing the right thing. Today, I was hoping the Taoiseach might give a little bit of encouragement. The bigger issue is not the individual case but the fact that no one can have confidence in GSOC so long as serving members of the Garda Síochána are operating within it. That was the issue I wanted to raise today. However, the Taoiseach belittles and makes a joke out of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Remit (27 Feb 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 12. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will immediately implement legislative changes to make the Garda Commissioner accountable to GSOC rather than the Minister for Justice in the interests of accountability and transparency. [9678/14]

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

Luke Flanagan: The Minister stated we needed to get back to a space where people had full confidence in GSOC. How can they do so if he has described what GSOC did as unfortunate and when he has criticised it in numerous ways?

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

Luke Flanagan: ...question is on the basis of a rather alarming meeting I held in my office with a prominent journalist approximately 17 months ago. It has been asked whether the Minister sanctioned surveillance of GSOC. Has he sanctioned the surveillance of any journalist, be it in his job as Minister for Justice and Equality or his other job as Minister for Defence? Has he put any politician under...

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

Luke Flanagan: ...there is some truth in it. Surely, if there is that level of concern out there, we need oversight of the Garda Síochána. We do not have such oversight. That is not because of the staff who work in GSOC who seem like decent people. It is because they have not been given the powers. We are mad for talking about suicide in this country. Approximately, once a week we get a...

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

Luke Flanagan: Will GSOC respond to the four demands the Garda Commissioner made in his press statement on Monday? Will this correspondence be published? To provide background, the Taoiseach and the Minister stated yesterday that GSOC should give these answers at this committee hearing. This was obviously inappropriate of them as they cannot instruct GSOC to do anything. GSOC is not answerable to the...

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

Luke Flanagan: I have questions on the issue. How can GSOC work when in public the Garda Commissioner orders it to do something? GSOC does not need to have a good, bad or indifferent relationship with the Commissioner.

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

Luke Flanagan: GSOC does not need to have a relationship with the Commissioner. Why does it need to have a relationship with someone it could potentially investigate and why is it having private conversations with someone it could potentially investigate? Public confidence is not helped by this.

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

Luke Flanagan: I thank the witnesses for coming here today. What percentage of GSOC is made up of former members of the Garda Síochána?

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

Luke Flanagan: ...Daly and Wallace are actually trying to do the right thing but he just wants to spin it against them. However, at this stage, it has spun so much that it is now starting to spin against the Minister. If GSOC thinks twice before going to the Garda Síochána, then what confidence can the general public have? A rape victim or someone who has been beaten up will read in the paper...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (5 Feb 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that several members of the GSOC have had their penalty points wiped out, is it lawful and fair that those same persons are effectively investigating the penalty points issues arising at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5834/14]

Private Members' Business - Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Luke Flanagan: ...There was a subsequent inquiry by assistant commissioner Jennings in 2007 and the DPP concluded that no gardaí should face prosecution regarding the shortcomings of the Garda conduct alleged by the family. The family have contacted the GSOC on several occasions and have been told that the complaint was inadmissible. The admissibility criteria under the new Garda Síochána...