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 Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is not my question. Assistant Commissioner Finn has clarified for the committee that the 14,700 cases brought before the court and from which convictions arose were issues where summons were issued without them being given an opportunity to pay a fixed charge notice. That is what he said in his press release on 27 March. My question is on the review, which identified 1,130 cases where summons had been issued for offences where the fixed charge notice had already been paid. This is an additional number of persons who have been convicted before our courts; I presume some of them were convicted.

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