asked the Minister for Justice if the names of men who have been dismissed from the Garda Síochána are notified to the Department of Social Welfare to be "black-listed" for employment in any capacity in every branch of State Departments.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Dismissed Gardaí.
The names of persons, including members of the Garda Síochána, who are dismissed from the public service for misconduct are notified to the Department of Social Welfare so that the circumstances surrounding their dismissal may come under review should there be question of their re-employment in some other branch of the service.
The House would probably appreciate the need for that regulation in respect of certain types of employment in a State Department. In the particular case which I have in mind, and which I referred to the Minister for Agriculture last week, a married man with nine children applied for agricultural work on the Johnstown Castle State farm. Because he was dismissed from the Garda Síochána ten or 11 years ago, he was denied employment at a wage, I suppose, of £3 10s. or £3 15s. per week. Surely the Minister ought to reconsider this black list at least in respect of that type of job?
Question No. 52.
Further arising out of the Minister's failure to reply, does he not realise that he listened to the Minister for Agriculture last week when the Minister for Agriculture misled the House, whether deliberately or not——
That does not arise.
——because the suggestion that he was dismissed from the Garda Síochána had been considered——
The Deputy is asking a question that does not arise out of the previous question.
It does not make much difference. I will not get an answer, anyway.