Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
9:00 am
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I am not inviting the Garda Commissioner to do anything of the sort. It would be entirely and wholly inappropriate to do so. I think we can agree it would be a most serious matter if it transpired that anybody - much less an officer of the law - had given incorrect evidence to a court and it would be all the more serious if it were done in a co-ordinated way. I think we can agree that that would be a most serious matter. I am not asking the Garda Commissioner to adjudicate as to whether that happened. What I am asking is what she has done given that this suggestion and concern is in the public domain and has been reiterated by An Taoiseach. I want to know if Assistant Commissioner O'Brien is investigating and reviewing that matter. Is he is speaking to the officers in question and has the Garda Commissioner spoken to them? Where is that issue in the review of events around Jobstown?
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