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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

...policing operations from the Commissioner to different oversight bodies - in effect, the micromanagement and erosion of operational independence that the Commission strongly warned against. It also gives the replacement for the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, more legal powers to conduct investigations into Garda personnel, including Garda staff, which gardaí...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Pa Daly: I asked about the difference in the culture between the North and this jurisdiction. Commissioner Harris mentioned in his opening statement investigations by GSOC going on for years without any obligation to inform Garda employees. It is kind of similar to some of the debate that has come from the mid-west area recently in that investigations are going along for a long time. Given some of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Pa Daly: I have a final question for the Garda Inspectorate. On the replacement for GSOC and giving it more powers to conduct investigations into Garda personnel, the Garda Commissioner expressed concerns about possible breaches of human rights that could be disproportionate, unconstitutional and unable to withstand a test in the courts. What is the inspectorate's view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Mr. Mark Toland: I would not like to answer on behalf of GSOC but I would say that in our submission, we acknowledged that the Commissioner intends in the long term to, hopefully, replace gardaí at the front counter of Garda stations with Garda staff to free up gardaí for patrol. Our comment is around reception of complaints and that a member of Garda staff would be able to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: As regards some of the conversation around what is and what is not referred to GSOC, the word "performance" has been used. Obviously, referrals are made in respect of, for example, human rights and disciplinary matters. We are separating those things in relation to when we decide who investigates what. So, when it comes to an issue of a more disciplinary nature, it would not make sense for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Mr. Mark Toland: The Senator may have left the House, but I repeat that I cannot answer questions on behalf of GSOC. I can say that we recently wrote and published a report about trying to prevent internal corruption in An Garda Síochána. One of the things we were pleased to see in that context was a clarification concerning what is “serious harm”. Those are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2021: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Robbie Gallagher: ...breach of [...] human rights", was used. He also referred to there being no "mechanism for Garda personnel to complain to an independent oversight body", that investigations by the proposed new GSOC would take a long time, "be incredibly stressful" and a lack of communication between the new GSOC and the garda being investigated in that context. It was stated as well that there would be...