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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: ...year ago that the investigations have concluded. The Minister for Justice and Equality calls these organisations to account. It is a fact that An Garda Síochána breached existing protocols with GSOC and refused to hand over files for five months. It is a fact that An Garda Síochána refused GSOC's request to sit in on the disciplinary hearings on behalf of four...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...disclosure under the Act, no information could be provided at that time. I want to remind the House yet again that I am awaiting the outcome of any investigation which An Garda Síochána or GSOC is engaged in. I want to remind Deputy Clare Daly that term of reference [p] of the disclosures tribunal covers complaints by members of the Garda who made protected disclosures prior to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...attention of the appropriate authorities. The Act also affords important protections to persons making protected disclosures and specifically included the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, as a designated body for receipt of protected disclosures. The protections afforded under the Act include protection from dismissal and other forms of penalisation and for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Protected Disclosures (23 May 2018)

Clare Daly: ...not know whether the Minister is playing dumb or he just does not get it. He will not escape behind this and this will haunt him unless he starts dealing with it properly. The Minister states GSOC needs time. It is the fifth year since this complaint was made. It involves gardaí involved in the heroin trade in the Minister's constituency. One young man has died - possibly two...