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

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Does it involve individual wrongdoing in every station? To go a little further, it is beyond a marginal statistical mishap and probably beyond an individual mistake; we must, therefore, examine the matter to see what the cultural trigger was for this systematic failure. In her statement Ms O'Sullivan has given us much information on certain timelines, but we have very little information on why this might have happened. Can the representatives give us a hypothesis as to why, in their opinion, this may have happened? I understand an audit is continuing, but, surely, as senior officers in An Garda Síochána, they have some indication as to how this happened in every station in every part of the country. Do they have any hypothesis as to how it happened at such a systematic level?

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