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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...that George Nkencho should not have been killed. I repeat, he was shot five times, twice in the back. His grieving family deserve answers on how their son was killed. Will the Minister agree the GSOC report is a matter of great public importance about how Garda killings are investigated, about how people can get answers on what happened, and is a matter of real public importance about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: I repeat my question to the Minister. There was a GSOC investigation. The investigation went on for two and a half years. There were hundreds of witness statements. There was video evidence. There is a lot of stuff in that report. Today, that report is not available to the family. It is not available to George's grieving mother, brothers and sisters. I believe that report should be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: ..., not refugees." Why were leaflets confiscated from members of People Before Profit? People Before Profit and Solidarity are writing letters of complaint to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and the Garda Commissioner and asking for this matter to be investigated. Is the Taoiseach prepared to say that these actions were wrong? Quite simply, they were wrong. They...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (6 Dec 2022)

Mick Barry: .... I want to use my remaining time to ask about the killing of George Nkencho by gardaí two years ago now. George's family were given to understand by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, that every attempt would be made to complete that investigation within a year of the killing, which would have been December of last year. The investigation has dragged on and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Mick Barry: ...death of George Nkencho is due to reconvene in June. However, it is also my understanding that the inquest cannot properly reconvene until such time as the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation into his death is complete. That investigation is not yet complete. The Nkencho family had been given to believe that it would be completed before the one-year...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 Feb 2022)

Mick Barry: The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation into the killing of George Nkencho had a targeted finish date of 30 December, the one-year anniversary of George's death. That deadline was not met. Not only was it not met, but it is now eight weeks past the deadline with no indication of when the investigation will be completed. Can the Taoiseach provide the House...

Appointment of Member and Chair of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Mick Barry: I wish to use this opportunity to make a broader point about the make-up of GSOC. It is not representative of communities that are badly policed or over-policed. Where are the young people, the people of colour, the members of the Travelling community or the trade unionists? Where is the diversity and the diverse experience? I cast no personal aspersions, but this deficit will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (19 May 2021)

Mick Barry: .... What steps are the Government prepared to take to address this? Has there been any change in thinking whatever around the repeated call from the Nkencho family that rather than an inquiry by GSOC, there should be a full independent public inquiry into the killing of that young man?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2021)

Mick Barry: ...shot that killed George Nkencho has not been suspended from An Garda Síochána pending investigation and, it would seem, has not yet been interviewed by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2021)

Mick Barry: In that case I will take a different path with this. Is the Taoiseach aware that correspondence sent by the chairperson of GSOC to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, dated 22 January refers to the challenge faced by an oversight body with fewer than 40 investigators in dealing with a Garda service of approximately 15,000 members? The under-resourcing of GSOC and the glacial pace...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: Earlier this month, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties wrote to GSOC. Its correspondence included the following words: "In today’s globalised world we cannot ignore the international resonances of a police shooting of a black man." Ireland is not immune to the phenomenon of the over-policing of minority communities. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties observed that "the pain...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Barry: There has been one scandal after another: Maurice McCabe, John Wilson, Dave Taylor, Nicky Keogh, Keith Harrison, the bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, the tapping of calls from Garda stations and now the falsification of Garda records on an industrial scale across the country. It underlines the strength of the socialist demand that there be a sharp break...