Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

I have no specific information at this time that there is. In my opening statement, I said that I had a fear. At a time when we are going through such a radical organisational and administrative overhaul, we are rooting out issues to ensure they are right. We are not leaving any stone unturned. As one overturns a stone, one finds something.

Additionally, we are benchmarking ourselves against best practice. As we bring in different people and perspectives, we are looking at things. When we identify issues, we will do precisely what we have done in this case. We will deal with them and put them right. We will be open and transparent about that. A number of reviews are under way. I can allow the deputy commissioner to talk about them. Everyone in this committee room is familiar with the Garda Inspectorate's report, particularly as regards data quality, crime classification and crime recording. We are working closely with the CSO. We continue to review all of our processes. We are introducing something that we never had before, namely, standard operating procedures, overhauling the roads policing unit and introducing new measures to ensure we have consistent-----

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