Results 21-35 of 35 for gsoc speaker:Gerry Adams

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

Gerry Adams: ...as "disgusting". The outgoing Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter, and the Commissioner tried to prevent Sergeant McCabe from giving evidence to the Committee of Public Accounts. Then there was the GSOC scandal, involving allegations of bugging at the offices of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. The Taoiseach's response to that scandal was to seek to put GSOC in the dock by...

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...don Taoiseach, tá sé i mbéal an phobail le tamall fada anois. Tá sé soiléir nach bhfuil deireadh le sin fós. The resignation comes as we await the outcome of separate investigations into the bugging controversy at GSOC and claims of Garda malpractice by whistleblowers and it follows a period in which Deputy Alan Shatter's judgment on a range of serious...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...Bailey case is crucial because all of those I mentioned knew about that case and about the surveillance, phone tapping, etc., that were carried out. The former Garda Commissioner did not co-operate with GSOC in respect of an investigation relating to that matter. While we are discussing these issues, the State is currently contesting a civil action taken by Ian Bailey and his partner,...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...controversy is the Ian Bailey case. Mr. Bailey wrote to the Taoiseach about his case in February. He has also asserted that he wrote to the Minister, Deputy Shatter, in 2012 regarding delays in a GSOC investigation caused by the former Garda Commissioner's refusal to provide requested material to the investigating team. The Bailey case is the real context of the ongoing scandal. People...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...phone calls in and out of Garda stations, but after the briefing it emerged that this practice had been brought to the Government's attention on at least three occasions, one, with the publication of the GSOC report in June 2013, two, with the discontinuation of this practice in November 2013 and, yesterday in this Chamber, I asked the Taoiseach if the Garda Commissioner knew of the phone...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...the Taoiseach makes of a new policing dispensation and we certainly try to keep him accountable on that, but really the Minister should go. At every turn he protected the Commissioner, he undermined GSOC and he discredited the Garda whistleblowers. Arguably, none of this would have come to light of those two brave officers had not highlighted what they saw as law breaking. Fine Gael...

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

Gerry Adams: ...and that of my party Sinn Féin, is inadequate. As all of this was unravelling, the revelation came that there was a suspicion of illegal surveillance and bugging at the offices of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. Once again, the Minister's instinct was to seek to put GSOC in the dock. The Taoiseach went on to misrepresent the Garda Síochána Act...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...to what the Taoiseach and the Labour Party said during the general election campaign about the need for a new way of doing these things. This is the old way of doing them. What happened over GSOC? There was to be a review. What is happening now? A senior counsel is being brought in to do a review. A process is provided for under the Commissions of Investigations Act 2004, which...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...that police investigating police, wherever it happens, is not acceptable. That the Commissioner is answerable to any politician is unacceptable. There needs to be a Garda authority that is independent. GSOC needs to have more power, including oversight of the Garda Commissioner. There is not one dot, comma or clause of the Good Friday Agreement in any the agencies, institutions or...

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...the issue by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, in particular but also by the Taoiseach has been damaging to public administration, An Garda Síochána and the independence of GSOC. The Government has done everything except what it should have done from the outset, which is to uphold the integrity and protect the independence of GSOC. Last night a journalist...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: The controversy about whether the office of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission was bugged has highlighted the dysfunctional relationship between GSOC, the Garda Commissioner and the Minister for Justice and Equality. The Government's reaction to this shows that the Taoiseach has not fully embraced the need for independent oversight of State agencies or institutions, despite...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...first public utterance, the Taoiseach stated that it should have reported the information to the Minister and that it was compelled to do so. There is no provision in the law which insists that GSOC must report to the Minister. Whether that is the right thing is an entirely different matter. The fact is there is an independence which is being undermined. I do not wish to compare like...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: Ní bheidh mé ach nóiméad amháin. Last night, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman commissioner, Kieran Fitzgerald, was equally clear in stating that a credible threat to GSOC security had been identified when the screening of its office was carried out. The response of the Government and the culture and the atmosphere are not conducive to transparency,...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: I agree with the Taoiseach that we need clarity but he has not been clear. There is very deep concern about reports that the GSOC office was targeted as part of a sophisticated surveillance operation allegedly using high-level technology. The Taoiseach's response to this yesterday was very disappointing, as was that of the Government to the whistleblower allegations. The important question...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...what could be described as a Jesuitical statement about whether the office was bugged. Was it found that an unauthorised system was in place that would have left the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, offices vulnerable to bugging? I have read all of these reports. It depends exactly on how one interprets what happened. GSOC was concerned enough to bring someone in...