Alan Farrell (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A number of submissions refer to deficiencies in the Act. To be fair to those who drafted the legislation, it may be more appropriate to refer to omissions from the Act, which are the cause of many of the current problems. A number of reports, investigations and so forth have been commissioned as part of the current corrective process. To repeat a question I put to the witnesses who appeared this morning, what effect will the publication of the findings of these investigations have on the administration of justice and morale in the Garda Síochána? I refer also to Government moves to introduce an independent policing board by Christmas and a suite of further legislative changes that will be produced.