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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 12 - Management of Ancillary Services at the Garda Training College (23 Nov 2017) See 9 other results from this debate

Mr. Joseph Nugent: GSOC, which is undertaking investigations, has provided us with two pieces of correspondence, which we are more than happy to provide to the committee. They outline the work that GSOC is doing.

Seanad: Justice Matters: Statements (22 Nov 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...xe1;na and to prepare a report on the matter, including any recommendations necessary to ensure those arrangements operated to best practice. I also used the legal powers available to me to ask the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, to investigate mutters alleged to have occurred in relation to a meeting in Mullingar involving certain officers. I drove the establishment...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...in An Garda Síochána and to prepare a report on the matter, including any recommendations necessary to ensure those arrangements operated to the very best practice. I also used the legal powers available to me to ask the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, to investigate matters alleged to have occurred regarding a meeting in Mullingar involving certain...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Inquiry (21 Nov 2017)

Charles Flanagan: .... The Commissioner requested that matters arising from the O'Higgins Commission of Investigation pertaining to a 2008 meeting in Mullingar be referred to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) for investigation. On 16 June 2016 the former Minister referred the matter to GSOC for investigation under Section 102(5) of the Garda Síochána Act (as amended). GSOC's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

...events leading to the establishment of the review provided a context to our submission. The NUJ was gravely concerned at revelations in January 2016 that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, had authorised its investigators to demand access to the mobile phone records of two NUJ members on foot of its powers under section 98 of the Garda Síochána Act,...

Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...is the same acting Garda Commissioner whose report into allegations of Garda involvement in the heroin trade in the Minister for Justice and Equality's constituency has not been published for three and a half years. As a result, GSOC cannot publish its report because it was previously been prevented from attending the disciplinary action involving these gardaí and has been frustrated...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...to enter, inspect and review any Garda Síochána station or premises without prior notification to any member of the Garda. Sinn Féin also supports giving a similar power to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. The strength and powers of GSOC are characterised by failings and weaknesses. While we need to return to this issue, GSOC requires the power provided...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

...in Dundalk. I only became aware of that when the HET was investigating the case. I became extremely concerned about where these items had gone and so I involved the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. Ten years down the line, I still do not have any answers. I was brushed off. In the North, the police ombudsman appears more impartial. It is neutral. The Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (8 Nov 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Jack Chambers: Would Ms Moore not accept that it is important in the interests of the media that we have protection for journalists, particularly in the context of what the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, was doing? Does she not think that there is a need to include that within the general scheme of the Bill?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Correspondence (7 Nov 2017)

Paschal Donohoe: ...referred to were brought to the attention of the Department in the past. At the time, it was noted that the matters had been raised with the specific bank mentioned, the Central Bank, GSOC, the European Ombudsman, and a variety of Courts both in Ireland and Europe and that one of those cases was against the Minister for Finance in 2004. It was also noted that any decisions that had been...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)

Gerry Adams: ...Tánaiste who was Minister for Justice and Equality at the time. I also spoke to her on many occasions. I gave information to the senior Garda officer who was investigating the case. I also wrote to GSOC. I wrote to the Taoiseach in July about the concerns of the Phillips family about the response of the Government to its demand for a public inquiry, but I received no reply. I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (10 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...no further action should be taken. Counsel for the IRM pointed out that the appropriate forum for raising matters related to alleged Garda failings was the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) who were already investigating certain matters arising from the tragic death in this case. GSOC is an independent body tasked with the investigation of complaints against...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (10 Oct 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Clare Daly: 231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that the GSOC investigation into the death of a person (details supplied) has been ongoing for five years with no outcome for the bereaved family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42377/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

...of 2008, which focused on this area, and the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission's report, which also focused on this area. I stated in my report on the fixed charge notice system that the GSOC report "concentrated on the areas that were causing members of the public to make complaints, however in doing so, the report highlighted areas that would improve the overall operation of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (3 Oct 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: 246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the report into the legislation regulating access by GSOC to journalists' phones, which was delivered by a person (details supplied) to the Government on 27 April 2017, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41685/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (3 Oct 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...regarding the correspondence sent by a person (details supplied) and forwarded to him as advised regarding serious neglect and treatment of animals; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that GSOC has been contacted regarding the correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41623/17]

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Clare Daly: ...at the top, but also throughout the middle ranks in order that a new broom and a new culture could be developed. That is and has been the job on hand, and none of the bodies the Taoiseach mentions - GSOC, the Policing Authority and so on - have been fit for purpose. His own Government has identified as much. I therefore genuinely appeal to the old Deputy Varadkar, when he was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

.... As would be the case with any employer - this is not unique - that clearance procedure involves language like "taking references". We ask the Garda Commissioner certain questions, we ask GSOC certain questions, we review our own information and we ask certain questions. Then the Policing Authority must assess each candidate through the lens of the highest standards of fair procedure...

Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Jim O'Callaghan: .... One of the important elements of Garda oversight and accountability is the legislation regulating when journalists' telephones can be accessed by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. Some 15 months ago, the Government asked retired chief justice, Mr. John Murray, to produce a report on this matter. The report was delivered to the Minister for Justice and Equality...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)

...vessels to see where employers were breaching the atypical working scheme or, even worse, if they had people on board who did not have visas. I felt it was very heavy-handed. I made a complaint to GSOC at the time because I felt there were other ways of doing this. Uniformed members of An Garda Síochána could have come down onto fishing vessels and carried out the inspections....