Results 21-40 of 60 for gsoc speaker:Niall Collins

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Oct 2014)

Niall Collins: ...Justice, Defence and Equality. This indicates that the Government's initial commitment to the necessary reform is waning. This Bill does not go far enough in securing the independence and impartiality of the GSOC from An Garda Síochána or the Minister for Justice and Equality. Fianna Fáil proposed the Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014, which was discussed in...

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

Niall Collins: ...that the Tánaiste was in pure denial in the House in this regard. This Bill differs in one key point from the Minister's Bill in that she proposes to keep a veto on any investigation or review by GSOC of the activities of the Garda Commissioner. This proposal needs to be teased out further. If GSOC is to have true independence in its capacity for oversight, there should not be a...

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

Niall Collins: ...perception of An Garda Síochána, the Department of Justice and Equality and the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. The problems which have manifested themselves in An Garda Síochána and GSOC and which were reported to the former Minister for Justice and Equality were ignored, dismissed or glossed over in order to save the embarrassment of those in senior...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Draft Commission of Investigation (Mr. Ronan MacLochlainn) Order 2014: Motion (16 Jul 2014)

Niall Collins: The incident occurred in 1998 and predated the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Administration (8 Jul 2014)

Niall Collins: 642. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline in tabular form the funding and staff levels of GSOC; the number of cases dealt with by GSOC on an annual basis from 2007 to date in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29446/14]

Cooke Report: Statements (19 Jun 2014)

Niall Collins: ...the relations between the Garda Síochána Ombudsman and the Garda. Those questions remain to be answered. In addition, there are serious questions to be answered regarding the possible bugging of GSOC's offices. The Government, however, has put a very successful spin on some of the contents of the report along the lines of, "This matter is now settled, there is nothing more to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: ...by other groups. I would like to ask the visitors for their views on the thoughts of, and presentations given, by previous groups. I would like to ask Baroness O'Loan a question. Before GSOC's attendance at this committee, it made a number of public pronouncements in the media and to other committees on high levels and low levels of co-operation between An Garda Síochána and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Niall Collins: From her experience as the Ombudsman in Northern Ireland and her knowledge of GSOC, what is her opinion on the resourcing of GSOC given the relative size of An Garda Síochána? In other words, how well resourced was her office in terms of the complement or size of the PSNI as against the resourcing of GSOC and the capacity it has to do its job in the context of the size An Garda...

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

Niall Collins: ...how the areas in which Garda stations have been closed have been compensated through the provision of the service promised at the time of closure. We are all on the one page with regard to the position of GSOC. In my name I published for my party a Bill that seeks to enhance the powers of GSOC to give it what it has been looking for. There has to be greater mutual acceptance involving...

Guerin Report: Statements (15 May 2014)

Niall Collins: ...the guards, or a form of peer review which would not be acceptable. We have the Fennelly commission of investigation and we are told the Cooke review into the allegations of bugging at GSOC is imminent and may be published tomorrow. We will deal with it whenever it is published. As stated, the terms of reference flowing from the Guerin report will have to examine the ten cases which were...

Guerin Report: Statements (15 May 2014)

Niall Collins: ...can argue indefinitely about the strength of the force and whether it should be 13,000, 14,000 or 15,000 but it is a debate for another day. In her speech, the Minister acknowledged that the follow-on from the Morris tribunal culminated in the Garda Síochána Act 2005. While it did not get everything right, most of the recommendations were taken on board. GSOC was established,...

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

Niall Collins: Will the delegates from GSOC give their view on this issue?

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

Niall Collins: The delegates from GSOC have previously outlined to this committee and in several media appearances instances of high-level non-co-operation and low-level non-co-operation from An Garda Síochána when GSOC is processing and investigating complaints. Will Mr. O'Brien indicate what progress has been made in this regard and whether the situation has improved to GSOC's satisfaction?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Staff (30 Apr 2014)

Niall Collins: 20. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources he will give GSOC in view of its planned additional duties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19264/14]

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

Niall Collins: ...statement sounds shocking, what we have heard over recent weeks and months from the Department of Justice and Equality gives us all cause for great concern. At present, there is the Cooke inquiry concerning GSOC and the Guerin inquiry on the matters contained within the dossier that was passed to the Taoiseach. We now have the commission of investigation and a Cabinet sub-committee is...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Apr 2014)

Niall Collins: ...in the Minister. In the usual fashion the Minister came into the Chamber and described the opposition Deputies who spoke as character assassins. What about the whistleblowers and the members of GSOC? What about the confidential recipient, the Garda Commissioner and the two Independent Deputies behind me? Those were attempted character assassinations by the Minister and the Government...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality; and Defence: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2014)

Niall Collins: ...to crisis and under the Minister's stewardship things have gone from bad to worse. Four separate investigations are currently going on under the Minister's remit. Mr. Justice Cooke is looking into the GSOC bugging scandal. Senior Counsel, Seán Guerin, is looking into the whistleblower dossier that the Minister sat on for a number of months. That dossier contains some very serious...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports (1 Apr 2014)

Niall Collins: 447. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the mechanisms his Department has to assess Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission reports and recommendations contained therein; the number of GSOC reports his Department has received since March 2011; if he has seen same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15406/14]

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

Niall Collins: ...Smithwick tribunal. He may contest that claim, now that the tribunal has concluded, but he was outed in that regard. We are discussing the penalty points issue, but we have also heard about the bugging of GSOC and the Minister's treatment of that body, whistleblowers and the confidential recipient. He has not dealt in his statement with any matter relating to Mr. Oliver Connolly. There...

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

Niall Collins: GSOC reported in 2013 and the Attorney General set up a working group in November of that year. The Garda Commissioner advised the Department of this by way of letter sent by courier over 16 days ago. Are we to believe the Minister knew about none of these events when, at the same time, a garda can pull alongside Deputy Mick Wallace at the Five Lamps, wag his finger at him for allegedly...