Results 21-40 of 143 for gsoc speaker:Mick Wallace

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Inspectorate (23 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: We dealt with legislation related to GSOC and the Policing Authority and were very disappointed that the potential to make them more effective was not exploited. We are very much against the inspectorate being dragged down into those pits, given that it is more effective than either GSOC or the Policing Authority.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised) (18 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: I wish to add to the points made by other Deputies about the extra €300,000 for GSOC. For a number of years we argued that GSOC had pretty much been designed to fail and was not fit for purpose. We tried to have the legislation changed on how it was structured. Also, it goes without saying the amount of moneys to which it has had access to carry out its work was not close to being...

Other Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (6 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: Given GSOC's acknowledgement of its lack of resources in its efforts to fulfil its functions, will the Minister consider looking at some other areas where a shortage of resources has led to us not being able to hold certain companies to account? I am referring to over €28 million paid to the information technology company Vantage. This may be in breach of public procurement guidelines...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Investigation (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that transcripts delivered to GSOC on its investigation into certain matters arising from the O'Higgins commission were incomplete; if he has sought an update from GSOC regarding this investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51748/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...to decide who is now disciplined? Surely the matter would more properly be handled by Garda headquarters in referring it directly to an independent body such as the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. It may also be that Garda headquarters should have referred the action or inaction of the regional commissioners or divisional officers to GSOC. What does the acting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...Act that are available to the authority and provide incidents where she has used them? For example, has the authority ever referred or considered referring a complaint to Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, in accordance with any of the subsections in section 102 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, as amended? Ms Feehily might also confirm whether and when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: We see a pattern of the Government being keen to keep a firm hand on organisations. For example, in the case of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, which we would argue was designed to fail, it made sure it failed by giving it as little money as possible. How effective will the commission be if the Government pulls its strings too closely? On a separate issue, I...

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...joke. The Tánaiste talks about the Police Authority being a robust body. It is toothless. We told the Tánaiste this when she brought the legislation forward. She introduced changes in respect of GSOC that have left it still unfit for purpose and unable to do the job. That is part of the reason we are here today. The Tánaiste has not depoliticised the situation....

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...of detection rates. The Garda Commissioner rejected this assertion but it must be wondered how she got away with rejecting the Garda Inspectorate report. The massaging of figures was reconfirmed by both GSOC and the CSO in their respective 2014 reports. The CSO went so far as to suspend publishing of crime statistics for a full year because of the unreliability of the figures. That...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (16 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if additional resources will be allocated to GSOC to enable it to carry out its role as confidential recipient more effectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7671/17]

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...subject of the complaint. On foot of a different complaint involving the very same superintendent that same assistant commissioner was asked to carry out an investigation. If all this was not bad enough, when GSOC, following its investigation into the second matter, asked for disciplinary proceedings to be taken by An Garda Síochána, whom did Nóirín appoint over it?...

Committee Report on Garda Oversight and Accountability: Motion (2 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...not make any sense for someone in an inspectorate capacity to have to give notice of a visit. I would like to address a couple of the recommendations. One of the recommendations states:Enhanced powers for GSOC in relation to reviewing investigations. In unsupervised investigations, a complainant has a right to have GSOC review the investigation. However, the outcome stands. That...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach has not answered any of my questions. While the Government sat on the O'Neill report - the Taoiseach has still not told me when he intends to publish it - GSOC had to go to the High Court to force the Commissioner to hand over the transcripts of the O'Higgins report. It is almost eight months since the Tánaiste requested GSOC to investigate the same. Only last week the...

Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...an investigation into this alleged conflict of interests. There has not been a word of that since. I wonder where it is. Following its investigation into the matter, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, asked for disciplinary procedures to be taken against them. Who did Nóirín O'Sullivan appoint to look after it? Yes, the very same assistant...

Other Questions: Garda Misconduct Allegations (15 Nov 2016)

Mick Wallace: It is a bit like a game. The Commissioner asked the Minister to refer the matter to GSOC. GSOC then asked the Commissioner for the transcript. The Commissioner said that under the 2004 Act she cannot give it to GSOC. GSOC then asked the Department of Justice and Equality for it. It used the same reason, namely, that under the 2004 Act and citing legal restrictions on disclosure it cannot...

Other Questions: Garda Misconduct Allegations (15 Nov 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Minister says she referred it to GSOC but she will not give it the papers. The Minister knows at this stage that Commissioner O'Sullivan questioned the motivation, credibility and integrity of Maurice McCabe. Her legal team claimed that at a meeting in Mullingar with a superintendent and another garda, Maurice McCabe had behaved in such a manner. The legal team for Maurice McCabe asked...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (15 Nov 2016)

Mick Wallace: 79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the GSOC inquiry into events surrounding evidence given to the O'Higgins commission, particularly in relation to a meeting in Mullingar and attempts to undermine the credibility of a person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34848/16]

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2016)

Mick Wallace: .... The Tánaiste talks about the new broom she has brought in. Nothing has changed, Minister, nothing. We marked her cards for her on her legislation on the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and the Policing Authority. We had Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring and Josephine Feehily stressing the lack of authority they have in legislation to do their jobs properly. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (28 Sep 2016)

Mick Wallace: The chairperson did not paint the same rosy picture that the Minister has painted. Sadly, by way of a couple of examples, GSOC has waited two years on documents from the whistleblowers, Nicky Kehoe and Keith Harrison, after asking for them. The documents in respect of one of them have eventually arrived. The chairperson says in public that she supports whistleblowers. I ask the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (28 Sep 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...the point that the protected disclosures system is not working as well as she would like it to work. The Minister should take a look at what she said. I am not making it up. She talked about GSOC not having the teeth to do what it would like to do. We said the same about the Policing Authority. Today Josephine Feehily was before the justice committee. Given that the Policing...