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 Colm BrophyColm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do because I checked something in regard to an answer and I want to ask Mr. Corcoran, the assistant commissioner, again about it. In correspondence, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, has indicated that regarding unsupervised disciplinary investigations in 2015, 600 took place and three out of four were affected by time delays. The judge went on to state there may be understandable reasons, but I will point out that there seems to be a substantial difference between 94% and 6% and his statement that realistically, it is a very small number and the way in which GSOC presented its information to us. That appears to indicate that in GSOC's view, while there are some understandable reasons for delays, there is not a regular process of compliance in regard to some of its investigations.

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