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Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Tommy Broughan: ...still be with us. Shane's mother, Lucia, and family are bravely continuing to highlight ineptitude in the implementation of areas of road safety and traffic law and their grave dissatisfaction with GSOC's report into the investigation, a report that astonishingly took six years to produce and publish. However, the O'Farrells are not alone in this fight. As the Minister knows, I have...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: .... If John O'Brien's sister, Anne-Marie, had not continued the battle to try to get justice and answers, there would have been no investigation. The Marine Casualty Investigation Board was a joke. The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigated it too. The gardaí never made a public appeal for witnesses. When I went to Dungarvan Garda station after months of...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...the injury, by the actions of State agencies even up to yesterday’s intervention by the Taoiseach on the matter during Questions on Promised Legislation. The Taoiseach stated yesterday that the GSOC inquiry found that many of the 58 allegations made by the family were found to be incorrect. I put it to the Minister that the report did not say that at all. The Taoiseach's...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...State has since dealt with it is an indictment of the State. The Minister is a good man and I believe he will agree with us. It is now 2018 and almost seven years after Shane's death we have a GSOC report that, to avoid undue distress to the family, was not published until now. Surely this was a decision for the family to make. Rather than such a patriarchal attitude GSOC should have...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Seán Sherlock: .... I note there is correspondence between Deputy Brendan Howlin and the Taoiseach dated 28 January of this year whereupon the Taoiseach, in his response to Deputy Howlin, states:I am advised that GSOC officials met with the members of the O'Farrell family on 27 September 2017 and were given an update on the current position with regard to the investigation of their complaints. I am further...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Gino Kenny: ..., even to this day. There has been a catalogue of failures, a litany so obvious that Shane's family at least deserves a proper explanation. The explanation has not come in the whitewash of the GSOC report. The family has waited for six years to hear something they already knew. I put it to the Minister that the only way the family will get justice is through a public inquiry. We all...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome Lucia and all the members of the O'Farrell family here today. Six years have passed since Lucia and Gemma O'Farrell submitted their first complaints to GSOC. They have waited all this time for a report that was to investigate in full the multitude of failings by the justice system before and after Shane was killed. We have read the GSOC report and are deeply concerned at its...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: .... The issue publication date was 29 March 2017. It has been awaiting further action or publication for over a year. If there are further actions or investigations to be undertaken by GSOC, where are they? What has begun in that regard? It is possible that the Minister may not have read the report. When he does read it in its entirety and in detail, he should be asking serious...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ..., the absence of proper application of the law by members of An Garda Síochána, even where all the salient information was not to hand, merits comprehensive address. The recently published GSOC report fails the test. This is not about scapegoating garda A or garda B. It is about exposing and addressing the systemic failures of our policing and justice systems. It is about...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Niamh Smyth: ...of offences. The case reveals the shocking dysfunction at all levels of the criminal justice system. The O'Farrells were failed by the State on many levels. The beacon of hope for the family was GSOC's report. They have waited six long years for the report. They went over and above what could have been expected of anyone involved in this process, providing court orders from the...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

John McGuinness: ...only on the presentation of the evidence by his wife that he admitted that he had been involved in the accident and had caused the death of Shane O'Farrell. The other aspect of the report concerns GSOC. It stated the outcome was entered on the Garda PULSE system. The O'Farrell family were told that it had not been entered on the PULSE system. They named the garda in question - I...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...of interest. This has been explained to the family, to their solicitor and to this House in reply to a number of parliamentary questions. As mentioned, a number of complaints were made to GSOC by the O'Farrell family and my predecessor, Mr. Alan Shatter, also referred certain matters relating to the case to GSOC. The investigation on the part of GSOC involved consideration of all...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...for disciplinary action against one or more members of An Garda Síochána. That is a source of deep frustration and, indeed, upset for the O'Farrell family, but it remains the case that the GSOC disciplinary process must be completed before there is any decision on what further action can be taken. I strongly reiterate the commitment given to the O'Farrell family that once the...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...not know what would have happened on 2 August 2011 had the individual been in jail, but there is a strong likelihood that the collision with Shane O'Farrell would not have happened. We now have GSOC's report which does not answer the question I have just put to the House. We are told by the Minister that the investigation is ongoing. The questions which disclose significant...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...have availed of the mechanisms at their disposal to determine what actions might be taken. In 2014 my predecessor, Alan Shatter, referred the matter to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. Members of the House will be aware that GSOC has statutory responsibility to deal with complaints concerning the conduct of members of An Garda Síochána. At the time of...