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 Mick WallaceMick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

To the best of my knowledge, I heard Mr. Finn take responsibility last week for over 13,000 mistakes. Would that be true? Mr. Finn accepts some responsibility for the fact that things went haywire around the fixed charge notices. Mr. Finn will have noticed that yesterday I raised in the Dáil the issue of a female garda who is stationed in Bray. I have the result of an internal disciplinary inquiry here and both Mr. Finn and the Commissioner signed it. Dismissal is being recommended on five grounds, one of which was failure to put a criminal complaint on PULSE. A second ground was failure to safeguard a statement. This is a station where the GPSU report found that 30% of the files could not even be found in the station such was the anarchy prevailing in it. Given that Mr. Finn accepts responsibility for over 13,000 mistakes, how, in God's name, can he recommend dismissal to a female garda for these two incidents?

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