Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Role and Functions: Forensic Science Ireland

2:30 pm

Dr. Sheila Willis:

As I mentioned in my written statement we have visits from defence scientists on average twice a month. Defence teams use their opportunity to review the cases about twice a month. In terms of how many times our cases have been rebutted, in which the Deputy presumably means our evidence was found to be at variance with what they found - I am not aware of any. Arguments certainly arise on different occasions, there is a particularly contentious one at the moment, but I cannot think of any example of where our evidence has been found wanting.

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