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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...chief inspectors in terms of policing. The jury is out on this matter. The case of the ICCL is that because there will be a new policing authority, a Garda professional standards unit and GSOC, there is, with all due respect, no need for a Garda Inspectorate, which is an organisation too many. Based on the submission of the Garda Inspectorate, it is looking for more powers of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...point made by the Garda Inspectorate, which strikes me as logical and sensible, is that there are crossovers regarding the roles and responsibilities of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and the Garda Inspectorate. Would it not be better were they to co-operate on such matters and, perhaps on a statutory footing, meet on a regular basis to ascertain how they could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Obviously, there is consensus among the presenters today and our members on an independent policing authority, strengthened powers for the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and so on but I want to focus on areas on which there does not appear to be consensus. My first questions are for the GSOC representatives. They make the point about efficiencies and that there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a second question for GSOC. We will have a presentation this afternoon from Dr. Richard O'Flaherty from Limerick. Are there any lessons to be learned in that regard? He has brought matters to the attention of GSOC. They have dragged on for three years. He will present based on his experiences. Does GSOC have any reflections on the issues he has brought to its attention?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I invite the GSOC commissioners to examine Dr. O'Flaherty's presentation, which will be in public view today. I will leave it with them to deal with the issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...structure for members of An Garda Síochána in terms of the options available to them and supporting them through any complaints they might have but at the same time it also supports the idea that GSOC would deal with more serious complaints. Can the representatives take us through that in more detail?

Order of Business (8 May 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: While I know it was raised earlier, I would like to get some sense of when the Cooke report into the allegations that the GSOC offices were bugged will be published and when the debate will take place. That was supposed to have been presented to the Government and to these Houses before Easter. Second, on the Legal Services Regulation Bill, it is outrageous that we are over three years...

Other Questions: Corrib Gas Field (30 Apr 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...attained from it. The Minister is aware that the UN special rapporteur on human rights, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, among many others, is part of an increasing call for an investigation into these matters. GSOC found that the superintendent in charge should face disciplinary measures. The Garda Commissioner failed to enact that, without any explanation. We are considering GSOC powers and...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to An Garda Síochána and other persons) Order 2014: Motion (15 Apr 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...around the Garda ombudsman's office being bugged were very serious. Unfortunately, however, on the day after it was reported in The Sunday Times, the Taoiseach misquoted the Garda Síochána Act and said that GSOC had a requirement to report to the Minister. Straight away, the tone was set that, in the phrase that was used, the victims were being turned into the villains. The...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Members became interested. Finally, when it came to crisis point with what the Garda Commissioner said before the Committee of Public Accounts and the major outcry, the Minister decided to refer it to GSOC for a vigorous, independent examination of the matters at hand. That is the journey, that is what happened. Now we move on to the apology. It is good that both men are entirely...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...the Garda Commissioner tried to prevent Sergeant McCabe giving evidence to the PAC. Then there was the scandal of allegations of bugging at the office of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. The Minister's response was to seek to put GSOC in the dock, aided by the Taoiseach, who misrepresented the Garda Síochána Act 2005 by implying that GSOC was the...

Matters relating to An Garda Síochána: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...to do through all of the other crises - to set up a commission of investigation. Within hours the presented narrative had begun to unravel. We discovered that a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, report published last June had clearly identified the Garda practice of recording outgoing and incoming calls. In other words, this news was not new. At the time the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (27 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., so for the life of me I cannot understand why the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, which the Minister probably knows line for line, was not deployed in regard to the allegations of the GSOC offices being bugged and the serious matters that have come into the public domain. Will the Minister outline his views on that legislation? Is it now redundant because if this is not a matter...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (27 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The issues in regard to the alleged bugging of the GSOC offices are very clear. They have been gone through line by line and every decent journalist in the State has reported on and analysed them. The Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions has spent hours dealing with the issues. The allegations and the issues of concern are very clear. Why did the Minister not deploy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Confidential Recipient (27 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... What will be the arrangement? What will the arrangement be in the interim? I presume the Minister intends to move to a position where gardaí, regardless of the issue, will go directly to GSOC in future. Will he clarify that?

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., he is an honourable man. The Minister said so himself when he appointed him. He is a respected solicitor. His character is not in question. Why would somebody like that say what he said? That must be answered. The third issue is the alleged bugging of the offices of GSOC, how that was handled and how GSOC was put in the dock rather than given the support of the Minister's office....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is a very intelligent man and knows exactly what I am saying. Our committee has been given an assessment. GSOC had the courtesy to outline to us the three threats and the Verrimus security assessment of the three threats. The Minister gave an account to the Dáil last night that seeks to undermine and unravel one of them and that is his right. He mentioned a second one....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...security company. The Minister is saying to us that he has received alternative advice that would undermine or unravel each one. I am simply asking why can he not extend us the same courtesy as GSOC and give us a summary of each analysis by Rits which undermines or unravels those three threats. That would be very helpful to the committee. It is a reasonable request.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Just to clarify, it has been widely reported that there has been a leak of the Verrimus report from GSOC. The Senator is asking about a report in the media yesterday which was almost identical to the Rits account that the Minister gave to the Dáil last night and today. What is the Minister's view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am trying to interpret this. Deputy Boyd Barrett's point regarding the briefing the Minister received from GSOC concerns the reason why the Minister did not relay what was in the briefing. Is that the point the Deputy is making?