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:

Maybe I will deal with it in the generality. I must be careful. We will not speak about any specific case. Sometimes, by putting information into the public domain, particularly if there is a sequence of events, it can lead to the identification of an individual and to be fair to individuals, we cannot do that. However, what I will say is that where any individual is identified as engaging in some type of wrongdoing, a process is undertaken which is a disciplinary process. In some instances, cases end up as criminal investigations and persons are charged before the courts. That is a very different thing from what we are talking about now. What we are talking about now, as Deputy Jack Chambers said, is a systemic-wide issue. The assistant commissioner, as the assistant commissioner with responsibility for roads policing, ook responsibility and apologised for those systemic widespread issues.

That is a very different scenario from somebody being identified and accused of wrongdoing.

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