Results 81-97 of 97 for gsoc speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...for the matter. We might ask it for a comprehensive response. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 970B, from Ms Aileen Healy, director of administration in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, dated 14 December 2021, is a response to correspondence the committee received from the Department of Justice regarding GSOC's resourcing. Members may recall this being raised last...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: The paragraph that caught my eye was the pay dispute and the difficulties this is causing for GSOC. Aileen Healy, the director of administration in GSOC stated: "We have been informed that, since July 2021, as result of a dispute over pay and allowances, some senior Garda officers have withdrawn from work they consider outside their core duties." The question arises as to whether some Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...consider outside their core duties", I am a little concerned about that and whether people are defining what are core duties and what are not. We will seek the Secretary General's take on it, and GSOC. Deputy Carthy wants to come in on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: ..., providing information requested by the committee regarding media reports of an official strike action by senior officers and its impacts on investigations by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. We will not publish this item because the information has been provided on a confidential basis and because it concerns an industrial relations dispute. The chief...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: We did not seek that information from GSOC but it is on the work programme for next year.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...this. No. 856 is from the Secretary General of the Department of Justice, dated 29 October 2021. It provides information requested by the committee on the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. This arose from correspondence we received from GSOC, which raised concerns regarding its resourcing and increasing caseload. The Secretary General states that the Department...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...MacSharry, No. 710, so I propose we take these together? Is that agreed? Agreed. The response from An Garda Síochána acknowledges the ongoing investigation by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and states that any comment on that investigation could be prejudicial to a possible criminal investigation. Correspondence No. 710C is from Deputy Marc...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I note that GSOC advised the committee in correspondence on 21 April that its investigation was in its final stages and would conclude shortly. I take on board the Deputy’s point that it has been dragging on for a long time. However, we also discussed the issues of the lack of resources of GSOC and we decided at a recent meeting to raise this issue and to try to highlight the fact it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...read it first as there may be useful information in it. I also think, given it is a time-sensitive issue, that we should advise the correspondent to forward any information he has at this point to GSOC. If GSOC is in the final stages of its criminal investigation and if the correspondent has information that may be pertinent to that, he should forward it to GSOC immediately. Obviously,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...want to read the detail in it. On flicking through, there appear to be a lot of detailed questions in it. It is up to the Committee of Public Accounts to formulate the questions and send them to GSOC as we see fit. We should be doing that. As I said, the first thing we must do is read that correspondence and have the opportunity to do that. I invite Deputy Carthy. Deputy Carthy may...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Brian Stanley: Thank you, we will do that. No. 642B from Ms Mary Ellen Ring, Chair of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, dated 10 June 202, is a response to our request for further information in relation to the workload and resourcing of GSOC. It is clear from the correspondence that GSOC’s workload is increasing but there has not been a corresponding increase in personnel....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...to the size of a regional constabulary in Britain, with the Manchester policing service or similar bodies being comparable to it. I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General about inviting GSOC. My opinion is that it is open to us to bring it in but Mr. McCarthy might be able to outline the possibilities better.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Brian Stanley: Given the figures GSOC has supplied, I can see how it is overworked if it has only 40 investigators and it is dealing with that number of cases in any given year, namely, 572 criminal investigations and 150 disciplinary cases. That is a very substantial number. We will await the clarification from Mr. McCarthy on the 2020 audit and make a decision on it then. Is that agreed? Agreed. ...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...and ask for the organisation to come back with a more realistic timeframe. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 491 is from Ms Mary Ellen Ring, chairperson of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. It is dated 30 March and provides further information requested by the committee regarding the Garda College in Templemore and the use of EU funds. While the investigation has...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements and Accounts (11 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will note and publish it and we will ask the chairperson to clarify whether she believes GSOC is adequately resourced. I suggest the secretariat, when corresponding with GSOC would ask whether the commission has the figure for the number of criminal investigations in 2020. The document gives the figure of 485 for criminal investigations for 2019. I was surprised by that in a service...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...in relation to its investigation was to request that the names of those involved not be published as to do so may prejudice any possible criminal investigation. In regard to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation, the correspondence states that a Garda liaison officer has been appointed to assist GSOC with its inquiries. At our meeting on 4 March we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2021)

Brian Stanley: The proposal is that we publish the item. Deputy Carthy has proposed that we request An Garda Síochána to keep us apprised of developments insofar as it can. We have to be careful in respect of GSOC. Obviously, we cannot get involved if it is involved in an inquiry into the matter, but we can ask it for a timeline if agreed. That is as far as we can go. If it is agreed, we will...