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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Bodies (6 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...relation to any particular aspects of the operation and administration of An Garda Síochána. 2006 12 Chief Inspector€150,597 Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) Independent oversight of alleged misbehaviour by members of An Garda Síochána. Receives complaints made by members of the public...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (27 Sep 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...5,750 Coyne Research Strategic Review of Abhaile, the State-Funded Mortgage Arrears Resolution Service, commissioned by the Department of Social Protection and undertaken in conjunction with the Department of Justice. Q4 2022 Costs are being met by the Department of Social Protection Indecon Review of the Current GSOC...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will be that the Government shall ignore it until it goes away. In recent years, Alice triggered a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation into the Garda station that failed to act on her abuse disclosures in the past. During that investigation, the Garda station wrote to a local authority...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Transport (20 Sep 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...cars with electric /hybrid models where possible, taking into consideration logistical practicalities and the unique nature of duties undertaken by the Bureau. The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) recently placed an order for two mild hybrid vehicles to replace some of its existing fleet. Over the next few years GSOC will consider the option of replacing more of its...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of People with Disabilities (13 Jul 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...;ochána carry out the commitments in the strategy, the Forum also provides a link to minority communities and are a voice for concerns within those communities. The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) have advised me that they have engaged with the National Advocacy Service to provide assistance and improved accessibility to its services. I understand GSOC also...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (12 Jul 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...that An Garda Síochána has not engaged the services of Carr Communications Ltd. or Kinzen Ltd. during the timeframe in question. Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission I am advised by officials in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) that it has engaged the services of Carr Communications Ltd. for various training courses on drawdown from the relevant...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022) See 6 other results from this debate

Pa Daly: I thank the Minister for her response. The reforms to GSOC contained in the policing, security and community safety Bill were dealt with extensively during pre-legislative scrutiny. The proposed reforms were criticised by many stakeholders in the committee. Some criticised the reforms for giving GSOC too many powers, and others criticised them for not giving it enough powers. I ask the...

Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...be available to speak to questions raised at the review. As the Deputy will be aware, the shooting of Mr. George Nkencho is being fully investigated by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), which is the independent statutory body established to investigate such incidents. This is the case with every incident involving the Gardaí that results in the death or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (5 Jul 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...sought by the Deputy from the agencies, bodies and offices under the remit of my Department in relation to the number of PhD positions funded. I am informed that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has no full-time PhD candidates. However, I understand that GSOC is supporting 3 students studying for DGov in and PhD qualifications in their own time under the Refund of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Jul 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...as amended), directed no prosecution in either instance. As the Deputy will appreciate, I have no role in the operations, oversight or governance of the Office of the DPP. As the Deputy will be aware, GSOC is the appropriate independent statutory body to process and investigate any complaints against Garda members. As Minister, I have no role in investigating complaints of such a nature.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

...to the Murray report, with which I know Dr. McIntyre will deal. A very significant issue involving journalists' records being procured in the context of a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, inquiry gave rise to the Murray report and the effort that went into that. There needs to be a situation where certain categories of citizens have different types of rights. I am...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...Authority arising from its review of the closures, including calculations of computer assisted dispatch incidents. On question 18, I propose we reiterate our request for clarity as to how many GSOC recommendations that disciplinary action be taken against a member of the force had been set aside by the Commissioner. Are members okay with that? I will take those proposals as being...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Staff (21 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...Reform Commission. ** The Garda Síochána Act 2005 and the Courts (No. 2) Act 1997, permit the number of High Court judges to be exceeded by one in each instance that a High Court judge is appointed as Chair of GSOC or as a member of the Law Reform Commission. ***In the Circuit Court the appointment of a specialist judge is provided for under the Personal Insolvency Act 2012.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...regard to the garda's evidence, it was found to be his opinion, the evidence of somebody else, the effluxion of time and all that. It culminated in a decision, taking all of these matters into consideration, that GSOC was of the view that it was not desirable in the public interest to investigate the allegations under the 2005 Act. Desirability in the public interest is unique to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Undefined (31 May 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...in Hartstown, and in particular to the Nkencho family. As the Deputy will be aware, the shooting of Mr George Nkencho is being fully investigated by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), which is the independent statutory body established to investigate such incidents. This is the case with every incident involving the Gardaí that results in the death or...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 May 2022) See 4 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: Okay. That is No. 1241, the second item of correspondence from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...and has the power to issue directions in all cases to An Garda, and An Garda must comply. Where the Garda does not comply and where concerns are raised, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, has a role. Individuals with specific concerns can go to it and gardaí can raise concerns themselves. The review covers several areas, and I do not want to pre-empt what will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Bríd Smith: 15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of proposals by the Government to reform GSOC; the accountability or oversight by Dáil Éireann or by another body that the current structure allows for; the mechanism that is available to revisit previous commission investigations that may have failed to discover facts or wrongdoing; and if she will make...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (24 May 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...and establishing a public inquiry, put in place the scoping exercise, which has taken three years to complete. That is in addition to the six years the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, inquiry took to complete. Of the ten and a half years that Shane O'Farrell has been dead, it has been impossible for nine of them to ask a question of a Minister for Justice because, we...