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

Alan Shatter: I can only tell the Deputy what happened. This letter apparently arrived in my Department on 10 March. It arrived in the context of issues relating to the civil action that was taking place. I understand there was some initial meeting on 10 March and a further meeting on 11 March. I think the substantial focus on the part of officials in the Department was on the proceedings, which I...

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

Alan Shatter: With which of the two issues are we dealing?

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

Alan Shatter: In regard to the issue the Deputy raised, I have already gone through the matter. These are serious matters and when I became aware of the extent of this matter, I took it with great seriousness, as did the Taoiseach and the Attorney General. In the context of the working group, this, as I understand it, was an internal Garda working group and there was a representative of the Attorney...

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

Alan Shatter: Yes.

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

Alan Shatter: I will take these matters in reverse order. First, the Deputy has raised a case regarding a matter in Cork of which I am not aware. Everyone in this House who has an interest in these issues is familiar with the report that was produced by GSOC arising out of the Boylan case, in which it made a complaint about the length of time it took to get some information and documentation from An...

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

Alan Shatter: Yes.

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

Alan Shatter: Sure.

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

Alan Shatter: Yes, but that is the exact reason I invited the Deputy to give me the details. Clearly, I cannot follow it up without her agreement and until I get the details. However, I am very happy to do it.

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

Alan Shatter: The issues they are dealing with now are being dealt with by GSOC in the first instance and secondly by Mr. Guerin. In the circumstances, we should let those processes take their course.

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

Alan Shatter: On that issue, I must write to the Deputy.

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

Alan Shatter: I apologise, but could the Deputy repeat the question?

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

Alan Shatter: As the Deputy knows, there was a great deal of concern about events taking place in County Donegal. There were allegations of which I was aware. I had no means of establishing their veracity and raised appropriate questions in the House. Eventually the Morris tribunal was established. I was the Fine Gael justice spokesperson at the time. My former colleague in this House, Mr. Jim...

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

Alan Shatter: I wish to say this as it is very important. There is absolutely no reason for the Attorney General to be subject to any criticism. She cannot answer for herself in the House, as she is not a Member. I know that she works extraordinary hours because there are occasions when she and I speak to each other on the telephone at 6 a.m. about issues and legislation. On this issue we had not had a...

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

Alan Shatter: I do not have all of my papers on this issue with me. I had them in the House this morning. I am advised by the departmental officials that no one from the Department sits on the working group. The first I knew of it was in the past 24 hours. Today is Wednesday - I am trying to re-focus on timelines in order that no one shoots me for them. I do not know who sits on the working group. I...

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

Alan Shatter: I will take the Deputy's questions in the order he raised them. I can absolutely assure him that I did not leak the inspectorate's report. A query came into the Department of Justice and Equality from a well known journalist who clearly had substantial knowledge of what was in it. I was asked would I do an interview and I explained I could not do an interview on the substance of the detail...

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

Alan Shatter: The Deputy asked me three questions and the Acting Chairman said she would give some leeway.

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

Alan Shatter: They completed that process and there is an appointment to be made. I hope it will be made relatively shortly. It would be unfair on the individuals who went through that process to require that it be started again. It is not an issue to which I have given much thought in the context of the events which have happened in the past 48 hours, but I would have understood it would still have been...

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

Alan Shatter: I was not nodding my head regarding anything Deputy Ó Snodaigh said. As he was speaking I read something and nodded my head.

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

Alan Shatter: On a point of order, perhaps Deputy McGuinness, between now and when we have questions, might revert to his files. On the issue he raised about a female member of the force, he might go back to the correspondence he purported to reference and come back to tell the House why he did not respond to me.

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

Alan Shatter: Deputy McGuinness was asked repeatedly.