Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Oversight: Discussion
2:40 pm
Mr. Robert K. Olson:
Just what I was talking about - this bureaucracy process through which information we ask for comes. Simple stuff that I would expect to get in a couple of weeks shows up in three months. I am not complaining. I know GSOC went public, but I would not want to do that. Every time an issue popped up - as Mr. Toland pointed out, this happened several times - I would go directly to the Garda Commissioner and we would have a good chat about it and then the process would be speeded up. However, for a list of reasons, the process is often sluggish, and this delays our work, because we have to wait for much of the information before we can make good decisions about what to recommend.
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