Results 101-120 of 139 for gsoc speaker:Clare Daly

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (15 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 35. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the controversies surrounding the relationship between GSOC and the Gardaí, and the fact that the outgoing Chairman of GSOC was directly overseeing a number of important cases with very serious implications for senior Gardaí, if she will confirm that these issues are unconnected with their decision to resign and that she...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: ...left. It sums up the situation we are in where the overall approach would seem to be characterised by broken promises, diluted reforms and a careful media strategy. It is also summed up in the GSOC Bill and Deputy Wallace made many points in regard to the detail. It improves the situation for GSOC a little but the Government could have done much more. I will not repeat the points but...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Disciplinary Proceedings (26 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) was one of the gardaí named in the GSOC report sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for consideration on whether criminal proceedings be issued against named members of the Garda who were involved with a drug dealer. [45440/14]

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Oct 2014)

Clare Daly: ...are exactly as they were, and I will deal with some of those issues. I apologise to the Minister of State and to Deputy Collins for being late but I was in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, dealing with my own complaint, which is in the public domain and therefore we do not need to be secretive about it. That complaint stems back almost 20 months - almost two years...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (10 Jul 2014)

Clare Daly: 145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to instruct GSOC to carry out an inquiry into the leaking of information to the media in relation to the removal of two Roma children from their families, the consequences of which were enormously damaging for the families concerned and which, although outside the scope of the special section 42 inquiry, based on the evidence...

Cooke Report: Statements (19 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: ..., Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, echoed those sentiments earlier. The former Garda Commissioner, Mr. Martin Callinan, previously said there was no question of any garda being involved in such wrongdoing. GSOC said it was all right too as it was said to have acted in good faith. The problem is everyone is capable of saying a black page is white but this doesn't make it true. The roots of the...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: ...running police operations in the history of the State, in an area deemed to be the most heavily policed in Europe, coincidentally in the Taoiseach's backyard, where more than 100 complaints to GSOC have been made, that the Taoiseach would agree this obviously should be the subject of an independent inquiry? Such an inquiry has been sought for a long time by national and international...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: ...xed;. The former Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, issued a press statement telling everyone he did a great job and had dealt with these matters in a straightforward, truthful and comprehensive way. GSOC welcomed the fact that it was found to have acted in good faith. In other words, everyone was right and we are where we were. However, there is a very large elephant...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: The person who leaked the story to GSOC could have tampered with the device inside GSOC. No explanation has been given of who tried to contact Verrimus in relation to its involvement in the inquiry and no explanation has been given of why the GSOC commissioner's phone's batteries were going down but now are not. Meanwhile, the report acknowledges that modern surveillance is not possible to...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: ...dodged the fact that the report does not deal with the issue of lawful surveillance. Why was that excluded? The Tánaiste talks about the public interest inquiry under section 102 which provides for GSOC to investigate wrongdoing by gardaí. If the surveillance was lawful, there would be no wrongdoing to investigate. The Tánaiste knows and Cooke reports that the backdrop...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: In making his last point on the public interest inquiry and GSOC's observations, the Tánaiste's has again undermined GSOC by incorrectly repeating that it had an obligation to bring it to the attention of the Garda and the Minister. Section 103 excludes GSOC from doing so in the public interest. I suggest the Tánaiste read the report again as he missed a few things in his...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2014)

Clare Daly: ...from serving members of the Garda indicating that behind the public door they are being told to shut it, not to shoot their mouths off and not to participate in this. Last week senior members of the Garda undermined GSOC by saying that GSOC was not a body gardaí should go to under some spurious excuse. Based on information I have used here before, it is our very clear understanding...

Guerin Report: Statements (15 May 2014)

Clare Daly: ...backed up what we were saying. This is important because, like the case referred to by Deputy Wallace about former Garda Jack Doyle and the way he was forced out, the Kieran Boylan case shocked the nation. GSOC put its colours to the mast on that one but, in essence, Jack Doyle's story was a forerunner to that where the gardaí basically ran a drug runner and were playing both...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (8 May 2014)

Clare Daly: ...and minimise people's grave concerns and engaged in repeated attempts to denigrate those who tried to raise particular issues. In that context, I refer not just to Members of this House but also to the whistleblowers, GSOC and others. Two commissions of investigation are about to be established. There is potential for a third to come into play as a result of the findings of the Cooke...

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)

Clare Daly: ...issue of the Minister himself. He defended lock, stock and barrel the operation of the Garda when Deputy Wallace moved legislation last summer calling for reform. It has been our experience that GSOC desires to be what it was set out to be - a body to oversee complaints relating to the Garda force - but that it has been made toothless by the existing legislation. I am not sure what the...

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)

Clare Daly: ...he would have been long gone. We say this particularly given the crisis he has weathered over the past 18 months, when the Taoiseach stood by him through the major scandals relating to the bugging of GSOC and the serious allegations of Garda malpractice put forward by Sergeant Maurice McCabe. Let us remember that Maurice McCabe, who last week had to make a complaint about bullying he is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abuse Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Clare Daly: 421. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will instruct GSOC to carry out a section 106 investigation into the practices, policies and procedures in relation to the Garda national juvenile office and the lack of timely investigation of sexual crimes against children. [16057/14]

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

Clare Daly: ...a duty to tell him about Deputy Wallace's non-event, but now he is saying the Commissioner did not have a duty to tell him about the most recent issue and he does not have a problem with that. He berated GSOC for not telling him about the bugging. He listed every piece of legislation he could think of. Today he devoted several minutes of his speech to explaining why GSOC did not have to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Investigations (25 Mar 2014)

Clare Daly: ...for the steps they have taken, or intend to take, to investigate the unlicensed transmission identified by the reported broadcast of a UK GSM cellular ID in the Middle Abbey Street area near the GSOC headquarters in the Verrimus report. [13785/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ComReg Investigations (11 Mar 2014)

Clare Daly: ...the instructions he has issued to ComReg to investigate the noted unlicensed transmission identified by the reported broadcast of a UK GSM cellular ID in the Middle Abbey Street area, near the GSOC HQ in the Verrimus report. [10848/14]