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:

Here is the challenge. One of the four, five or six items the assistant commissioner said had some input here was supervision. Supervision was key. Supervision is the only way one will know whether what one directs as a manager is carried out. During those years, a period of austerity when there was a moratorium on recruitment and promotions, there were huge gaps in our supervisory levels and capacity to go out and check.

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