Results 1-9 of 9 for gsoc speaker:Susan O'Keeffe

Seanad: Protected Disclosures Bill 2014: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...ensures that everyone is captured in so far as possible. Including the Central Bank and the Garda is a welcome step, as is the provision of additional responsibilities to and the strengthening of GSOC. Like citizens and workers, police officers now know that the State has provided the protections it can, debated this matter at length and consulted with those involved. This strengthens...

Seanad: Protected Disclosures Bill 2014: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Does this mean a member of the Garda Síochána can make a disclosure only to GSOC, or is the person protected only under GSOC and therefore cannot make a disclosure anywhere else? Is only the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána exempt? What is the role of other senior members of the Garda Síochána should they wish to make a disclosure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (18 Jun 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...a separate issue. To be clear, effectively what the witnesses have drawn is a conspiracy which involves the Garda Síochána, the Attorney General, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and GSOC, among others. It is an enormous conspiracy of silence that the witnesses have painted and I am not saying I do not believe them. What I am saying is that if such a conspiracy...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to An Garda Síochána and other persons) Order 2014: Motion (16 Apr 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: ...the view that rank and file gardaí know that this, ultimately, will help them in their work. A high-level committee is also obvious evidence of the commitment of the Taoiseach to this matter. The task of GSOC has been a difficult and lonely task. It endeavoured to play its role in changing the culture of the Garda Síochána by encouraging greater transparency. It was very...

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

Susan O'Keeffe: Does the Minister know whether Rits tendered for the work to sweep GSOC?

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

Susan O'Keeffe: ...about this aspect? The reason I raise this - it is relevant - is because a number of journalists have said to me that there has been inordinate concern in regard to this story and in regard to GSOC about journalists being bugged. I am not seeking to raise the matter in an hysterical fashion. Has the Minister raised that matter with Commissioner Callinan about names being added in a way...

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

Susan O'Keeffe: ...obviously confused by the fact that there still appear to be questions about that matter. In the context of establishing the public inquiry in the first instance, I am sure this is not something GSOC would do lightly. The commissioners did not get out of bed one morning and say "Let's set up a public interest inquiry". They had an acting director of investigations and there are three...

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

Susan O'Keeffe: In the wake of the publication of the first article in The Sunday Timesand having arranged to meet GSOC, did the Minister at any point decide to meet the Garda Commissioner to discuss the matter?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: I share the concerns others have raised at the apparent bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission’s, GSOC, office. It has a serious role to play. If anyone has deliberately set out to cause damage to its activity then they will have questions to answer and must be held accountable. How we do that is a matter of debate in this House and elsewhere. I am a member of...