Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner

9:00 am

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like to put on record that I have seen that the Commissioner has seen these allegations and in that sense, I find her response quite upsetting in many ways. She might answer my last question. If the Commissioner is not aware of any of these allegations but yet they exist both in terms of documented proof going back over years and, as she said herself, as the subject of huge conversation in the public domain, is that not a huge problem, particularly as they are continuing in different regions of the country, supposedly without her knowledge? Is the issue then that she has no authority among her members, that they are flagrantly doing the opposite of what she is telling them to do and does that not put her position in jeopardy?

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