Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Will GSOC respond to the four demands the Garda Commissioner made in his press statement on Monday? Will this correspondence be published? To provide background, the Taoiseach and the Minister stated yesterday that GSOC should give these answers at this committee hearing. This was obviously inappropriate of them as they cannot instruct GSOC to do anything. GSOC is not answerable to the Garda Commissioner as far as I know and it is of concern that he came out with this. It is meant to be the other way around. The Commissioner's four demands are with regard to the nature and extent of the anomalies identified by the UK security consultancy; whether these anomalies amounted to a security breach and if a criminal offence is suspected; the basis for suspicion of Garda misconduct; and whether any matters identified now require investigation by the Garda Síochána. To be quite honest I am not interested in whether the ombudsman commission answers these.