Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Priorities for Garda Inspectorate: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. Mark Toland:
No, it is not private. It is part of An Garda Síochána. They are civilian employees and they are very impressive. They understand crime and are starting to become very adept in understanding what a crime is. They also have prompts so that they can ask a garda whether he or she has carried out a particular action at a crime scene. That is to assist gardaí when investigating crimes locally. They are very professional and I am very impressed with them.
On the child sexual abuse issue, we published a report in 2012. We are in the report-writing stage and would like to have that published before December. However, it has to go to the Minister first and she will then decide when it is published. We will try to get our piece of that work done this side of Christmas.
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