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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: There are many regulators in Ireland, most of which, including, for example, GSOC, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, provide clear pathways to track enforcements on imports. The Data Protection Commission appears to have looked at a wide range of issues in one form or another, yet there is no clear record of reports or enforcement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Inquiries (19 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...Since the Dáil passed a motion last summer I have been considering how best to give effect to that motion while at the same time respecting the fact that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, was still investigating certain matters arising from the same incident. In this regard I had sought the advice of the Attorney General. At the end of January, I was...

Seanad: Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion (13 Feb 2019) See 4 other results from this debate

David Norris: ...was stopped by Gardaí and was noted to be unroadworthy and without a National Car Test certificate; and - in January 2012, a complaint was made to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) regarding the conduct and role of An Garda Síochána in the above matters, and a report into part of the complaints was published in April 2018; recognises that: - there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019) See 6 other results from this debate

Mick Wallace: ...of Justice and Equality and the Minister. The Minister told us that he would ask counsel to review a number of cases. In that light, it appears to us that there is not full confidence in GSOC's ability to sort out these problems. Mr. Harris is not responsible for the process, but he is the one who has to work with it. Is he happy with the nature of it?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (12 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 317 and 318 together. In the first place, as the Deputy is aware, the matters referred to in the questions are the subject of an investigation by GSOC. Accordingly, I do not propose to comment in any way on that matter. I can, however, say that my predecessor was notified by the Garda referred to in the Deputy's question that a complaint had been made...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (12 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I want to make it clear that neither I nor my Department would seek in any way to influence GSOC in carrying out its statutory duties. I can inform the Deputy that the social media posting to which he refers was issued by a national newspaper wholly in error and was removed at the request of the journalist concerned as soon as he saw the inaccurate tweet. The Deputy will note that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)

Jerry Buttimer: ...raised the very tragic case of Shane O'Farrell. As the Senator rightly stated, there is a grieving family who require answers. The Minister for Justice and Equality, on the completion of the GSOC report, has asked Judge Gerard Haughton to engage in a scoping exercise. I am informed by the Minister's office that Judge Haughton will meet the O'Farrell family. The report is to come back...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Inquiries (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...what further steps could be taken with regard to this case once the ongoing investigations into the matter by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission were completed. I have now been informed by GSOC that their disciplinary investigation is complete and that they have provided a copy of the report to the Garda Commissioner for follow up and written to the O’Farrell family...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Funding (30 Jan 2019) See 8 other results from this debate

Charles Flanagan: It is incumbent on us to allow the independent body, GSOC, proceed and carry out its investigations in accordance with its terms of reference.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Protected Disclosures (30 Jan 2019) See 3 other results from this debate

Mick Wallace: GSOC was supposed to look after protected disclosures, but the Minister has now had to establish a panel. Does that mean that the workload is too much for GSOC or that there is a lack of confidence in its role in assessing protected disclosures? Section 41(1)(b) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 reads: "significant developments that might reasonably be expected to affect adversely...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (30 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...of An Garda Síochána may communicate their concerns to the Garda Commissioner, as their employer if they so choose, or they may make a disclosure to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), which is a statutorily independent body, for investigation.  The legislation also allows that an individual employed by a public body may also make a Protected...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...rather than on protection. It goes without saying that IHREC must be adequately funded and resourced if it is to be given new duties. We often give extra powers to bodies, as with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, for example, but if we do not resource them adequately, those powers cannot be used.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (29 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: ...by this House last June calling for a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the tragic incident in which Shane O'Farrell lost his life. I want to reiterate that the outcome of GSOC's criminal investigation into complaints made by members of the family of Shane O'Farrell and following a referral by my predecessor was set out in an interim report issued last year. That...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) See 5 other results from this debate

Marc MacSharry: That is grand and that is 365 days a year. I will come back to that in a few minutes. I am told that there is a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation into the area of gardaí colluding with prison services in relation to prison staff. Can the witnesses confirm that?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Inquiries (15 Jan 2019) See 1 other result from this answer

Niamh Smyth: 466. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the length of time GSOC has taken to investigate complaints regarding the investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1268/19]

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Frank Feighan: ...there. Last weekend, hundreds of people marched about that incident between a garda and members of the public. I understand the details are before the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, but I can say that there is huge anger and worry about this incident. I hope that GSOC will deal with it. On Strokestown, there is a protest march again next Sunday and I hope it will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Protected Disclosures (18 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: ...That was certainly the position in the case to which reference was made. Has the Taoiseach given consideration to whether one of or both the new oversight body and the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, the two bodies that will oversee the Garda, will be the appropriate location for the making of protected disclosures? In an area such as the security services where...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...numbers of gardaí. We are in a good place to bring about Garda reform and improvements in our policing service, particularly community policing. Part of the structural reform put forward is about strengthening GSOC, turning it into an independent police ombudsman with more resources and authority to investigate complaints about gardaí. It involves putting elements of the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018) See 5 other results from this debate

Charles Flanagan: I intend to introduce an amendment to section 20 of the principal Act on Report Stage with the intention of permitting a designating officer of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, to act in circumstances where the Garda cannot to assist a coroner and to amend the current provision for an inspector of the Garda to request a coroner from an adjoining district to hold an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018) See 5 other results from this debate

Charles Flanagan: ...operate to best effect, which gives food for thought. Second, there are two elements to the commission’s proposals on external independent oversight. It proposes a reformed independent complaints body that would supersede the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and a new independent oversight body to be named the policing and community safety oversight commission...