Results 1-16 of 16 for gsoc speaker:Catherine Connolly

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...putting it. In particular, it welcomes provisions in the Bill that strengthen the independence and both expand and clarify the remit of the office of the police ombudsman. All of that is positive. However, GSOC has ongoing serious concerns. The Bill misses the opportunity to embed institutional independence in the new body, as envisaged in the report of the Commission on the Future of...

Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...the serious concerns of the committee on the matter. The committee recommended that the legislation should include a sunset clause and that there be better consultation with stakeholders. It also recommended that a certain category of citizens, such as journalists, should be given separate rights under the Bill. That is serious because that Murray report arose from GSOC taking...

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

Catherine Connolly: ...questioned whether politicians "are actually committed to meaningful independent oversight of the gardaí". That should spur us all on to reflect on whether we are. If we are, how have we allowed GSOC to exist without adequate resources and without listening to it year after year? The latest GSOC report is the fifteenth it has published. The Government received the report on time...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (9 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...in the south east; (14) Deputies Martin Kenny and Ruairí Ó Murchú - to discuss the industrial dispute by Garda superintendents causing delays to investigations by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC; (15) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell - to discuss plans for the review of housing density guidelines for sustainable urban living outside of Dublin and city centres;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the GSOC 2020 Annual Report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30212/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (1 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received the 2020 GSOC annual report to date; when this report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17784/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (4 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to establish a formal accredited training service for oversight personnel employed in GSOC to further empower them to critically investigate Garda actions; the analysis her Department has carried out into the cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12295/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (4 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to establish a historical investigation directorate in GSOC with its own dedicated staff which would be added to the existing staffing GSOC complement along the lines of the directorate set up in 2010 within the office of the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12296/21]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...in isolation, as one county, as though this could not possibly happen in any other county. That was the worst decision made at that time and at huge cost. We have oversight now. There is the Policing Authority, GSOC and the Garda Inspectorate, but it is important to remember how those were really dragged into birth after all that happened among certain segments of the Garda. The...

Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...background to the young boy who died, so it is particularly painful. I have taken the trouble to read the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission report in full. I am reluctantly here to criticise GSOC. I do not wish to, as we want the mechanisms to work. That is the reason they were set up. We do not wish to have independent inquiries or more commissions of investigation if we...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...State has since dealt with it is an indictment of the State. The Minister is a good man and I believe he will agree with us. It is now 2018 and almost seven years after Shane's death we have a GSOC report that, to avoid undue distress to the family, was not published until now. Surely this was a decision for the family to make. Rather than such a patriarchal attitude GSOC should have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Only in respect of GSOC?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: And further down we have an inquiry under section 109 of the Garda Síochána Act into the conduct of a GSOC investigation. Then we have a commission of investigation in respect of Cavan-Monaghan, the O'Higgins report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There was a vacancy in the Garda Inspectorate or GSOC. I had it marked in my documents but I have lost it.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Oversight (12 Dec 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to specify the body responsible for investigating a complaint against the Garda Commissioner, GSOC and the Policing Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52632/17]

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 May 2016)

Catherine Connolly: ...addition to the two main victims, a some 55 further civil actions have arisen. The taxpayer quite rightly picked up the tab for the victims in that case. Then we had the Smithwick tribunal, which reported in December 2013. It clearly found collusion between the Garda Síochána and the IRA. On top of that, GSOC has been involved in this inquiry and other investigations. As far...