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
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The Garda carried out a review to find out, I presume, how many people were being wrongly prosecuted. It would then have had to tell them that they should not have been prosecuted and to make right the errors. However, it carried out a review starting on 1 January 2014. What was the sense in that, given that the fixed charge notices had been introduced many years before in 2006? The Director of Public Prosecutions had to instruct the Garda to carry out the review going back to that point in time.
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