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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: The Department obviously does some work with the HSE on medical facilities within prisons. We heard about that earlier. I refer to the children's disability network teams. From what I have seen, some of the most dedicated parents have huge challenges and have ended up in hospital following attacks. It is more of a brass plate than it is anything else. The silo based on some of these...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: I have met the most dedicated parents who cannot control a child who has a very significant disability. In one case the Garda have been called more than 20 times in the same year. The real-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: It is so important that the Department of Justice talks to people working on other areas of policy because otherwise we are just going to go around in circles on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. I have a very strong memory of the discussions that took place here on Templemore and the associated issues. The discussions took place in May 2017. There are probably only about half a dozen issues that stand out from that Committee of Public Accounts and that is one of them. It took 12 weeks for the committee to write its report and then took six years and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I got Mr. Justice MacCabe's letter of 16 November. It tells us a little bit of something that the witnesses might confirm. I have often spoken of the lack of resources available and acknowledged that has an impact on the ability of GSOC to do its work. Mr. Justice MacCabe referred to the complexity of the investigation and suggested there was not great co-operation between OLAF and GSOC...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: When it came to it, he was interviewed for just one hour by GSOC, yet he had a lot of correspondence. When someone is there who clearly has knowledge and could have assisted, why was that assistance not availed of? He made it clear he was available to provide further information. This might give us an insight into the workings between the gardaí, the Commissioner and GSOC. Will the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Was that person working on this case prior to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Did that happen immediately after the secondment ended or was there a time lapse?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: What is the relationship? Why were those seconded to this case withdrawn before the case was completed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I am very short on time. The witnesses might respond to the question as to why the offer of additional information or discussion between the former HR director was not taken up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: As regards the Garda Commissioner and the deployment or secondment of gardaí, GSOC makes a request. Is that request usually acceded to? Is it always acceded to? Is there friction there? What is the relationship?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Obviously, the whole idea was that GSOC was set up so as there would be an independent investigation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I want to move on to protected disclosures. At the end of 2022, after some disclosures were closed, GSOC still had 53 disclosures on hand. What is the number it has on hand at the moment that are still open?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Does GSOC categorise those? Obviously, I am not pursuing details - I understand the legislation on this - but do they fall into particular categories, and whom do they come from?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: How many people are in that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: How does GSOC categorise them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Does GSOC categorise what is alleged?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I have four questions, so I am looking for quite succinct responses. I refer to the 20 cases per caseload at present. Is there sanction to go beyond that and what was it at its highest? What is the ratio of support staff per investigator?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Is there sanction to go towards ten?