Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The amendment concerns section 224, which provides that the police ombudsman can review certain decisions made relating to the inadmissibility of a complaint or the discontinuation of an investigation. The amendment was required following a request from GSOC to reconsider subsections (6) and (7) of section 224, which set out how a person should be notified of a decision that a complaint made to the police ombudsman has been deemed inadmissible or that a police ombudsman investigation has been discontinued. GSOC was concerned that the previous wording, which provided that a notification delivered by electronic mail should be deemed to be received when a read receipt had been generated, was too prescriptive. I was in agreement. Accordingly, subsections (6) and (7) have been deleted and it will now be the responsibility of the body to develop its own operating procedures to ensure a fair, reasonable and transparent approach is taken to such notifications in each case.

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