Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin

9:00 am

Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

At the moment the only report that I have, as the acting Garda Commissioner, is the one that Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan has given to me. There is an additional piece of work he has directed local Garda chiefs to carry out on the data that apply to their areas. We are also awaiting the publication of the Crowe Howarth piece of work. We should wait to see the outcome of all of that before we decide our next steps. As I have said, it is unacceptable that people would do what was proposed by the assistant commissioner in his report. At whatever level to which this may be attributable, those people must be held to account. That is on the basis of what we know to date but when we get the full information that is required, we can then move on to making decisions about what we will do next in the context of holding people to account.

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