Results 61-80 of 109 for gsoc speaker:Enda Kenny

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Minister for Justice and Equality was the first person to say GSOC was inadequate in its capacity, range and remit to do its job.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: Yesterday Deputy Mattie McGrath made the point that the GSOC report had referred to the fact that all of this had arisen from the Waterford case. The GSOC report referred to the particular case in Waterford police station. It did not refer to the much wider trawl that has now brought to light more than 2,500 tapes and the rest from 2008 to 2013 that are of a digital nature. That is why it...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: .... This is why the abolition of the confidential recipient has taken place. This is why the terms of reference are being examined by the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. It is why GSOC is doing a full presentation in respect of the penalty point issue. It is why Mr. Guerin SC is examining the question of the allegations brought to the attention of public...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: This is going to be done now. The Garda Inspectorate report will be published today and will be debated in the committee and in the Dáil. The GSOC report will be published and will be debated in the committee and in the Dáil, as needs be. The system will be put right - a system that is fair, accountable, above board and is not subject either to celebrity intervention or political...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...non-enforcement of penalty points. He made the point to me this morning that he was very happy to note that Garda McCabe was in full co-operation with the Garda Inspectorate inquiry. I also expect that when the GSOC report comes before the committee and the Dáil, the whistleblowers will have co-operated, worked, engaged and discussed with the GSOC personnel on a comprehensive basis....

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...to have it debated here and the Minister will respond again and take questions on it. The Oireachtas committee will also debate it, if it feels that is appropriate. We are not waiting for the GSOC report. That will come in its own time. Elements of the O'Mahony report are being implemented. It is intended that the Minister will recommend to the Cabinet that the recommendations in the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...and he will recommend their implementation to Cabinet. Some of these will require some legislative and resourcing initiatives. The Garda Síochána Inspectorate report and the overall review being carried out by GSOC will mean that this matter will have had intensive and very focused scrutiny about how it should operate. I agree with Deputy Martin that the Garda whistleblower...

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...recommendations from the Garda Inspectorate report are following on from the Mahony report. Some are being implemented now, some will require legislation, but all will be implemented. We have the GSOC report to come, which will be published and debated here. When Deputy Martin says it is not the case that there was no evidence around, he is right. There are three instances from 2003...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure where the Deputy has been for the past while because GSOC is an independent entity set up for the specific purpose of dealing with complaints from members of the public against serving members of the gardaí. The Deputy is now telling me that GSOC does not have the powers to investigate the complaints that were made. That is what I understand her to be saying. That is...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Collins cannot have it both ways. For the last number of weeks, she was complaining that the Minister for Justice and Equality was impacting on GSOC, which is completely independent. Now, she is telling me that GSOC is not able to do its job. I cannot second-guess what an independent investigative authority will do in regard to any case that comes before it. It is not for the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...happened and they are bringing to my attention further inadequacies within the Garda ombudsman's office. They say that, as was pointed out during the debate on the Garda ombudsman Bill last July, GSOC is inadequately founded in legislation. That is why the Government asked Deputy Stanton and his committee to take public hearings, including from Deputy Joan Collins and anybody else, about...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...arose from a Private Members' Bill here in July 2013 on an amendment to the Garda Síochána Act of 2005, during which it was alleged that a number of individuals believed their complaints to GSOC had not been investigated. GSOC is an independent authority. The Minister offered to review the handling of the specific complaints with regard to individuals who believed their matters...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...behaviour by gardaí. The bigger picture that the Deputy Martin and everyone else wants is that we have a Garda force that is transparent, accountable and competent and that the oversight body of GSOC can be reformed in a way that reflects that accurately for the citizens of our country.

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: .... Deputy Adams asked me why did we not set up a special investigation commission immediately. The truth of the matter is that a number of these bodies are completely independent of this House. GSOC is independent of the House. It was set up for a particular purpose, that of receiving complaints from citizens or in the case of gardaí who wished to make a complaint about elements...

Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...us see what that is. It also means direct engagement with Sergeant McCabe in regard to the matters Deputy Martin presented to me, which in part have been investigated either by the Commissioner, GSOC or in some references to the DPP. The Minister has set out his point of view, including the communications and chronology of events as followed by him. People often have differences of...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: ..., to restore integrity and credibility in An Garda Síochána in its competence, professionalism and in how it interacts with the people, and the independence and oversight responsibilities of GSOC. However, it is a new way of dealing with an old structure. There have been four Ministers for Justice and Equality since 2007: Mr. McDowell, the late Mr. Lenihan, Mr. Ahern and now...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: Hopefully - there is a lot of paper here - he can report to me before Easter and we can decide then on the best thing to do here. As I have said, GSOC and the DPP are utterly independent of this House. Investigations into this matter of public interest have taken place. As the Deputy is aware, some of these allegations have been investigated by the Garda Commissioner, by GSOC in part or in...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...gave me material from Garda McCabe last week which contains very serious allegations against members of the force. I am aware, as is everyone else, that the good sergeant has been in contact with the Garda authorities, GSOC, the Department of Justice and Equality, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, the Department of the Taoiseach, the Committee of Public Accounts, other...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...of these matters. We need to have confidence, credibility and integrity both in the Garda Síochána in the conduct of its affairs on behalf of the people of the nation and also in respect of GSOC. The Deputy gave me this documentation just last week and we now have a response to it as to what we intend to do. I am not in a position to have the documentation from the DPP or...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...be involved with the High Court judge to review, analyse, comment on and question all of the documentation, reports, statements and technology so we can get a system that works and in which the GSOC entity and An Garda Síochána have credibility. The judge will report inside eight weeks.