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

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Can the witness explain how the Garda had the officers of a certain rank, be it inspector or superintendent, in sufficient numbers to sanction the checkpoint but the manpower resources did not stretch to that same person concluding their job and finding out whether the checkpoint was carried out? Regardless of who is in the station, if I have authorised a checkpoint and when I arrive at the station in the morning I find that two fellows were arrested or whatever and there was chaos in the station, it does not take a genius to work out whether the lads could have been out on the road carrying out a checkpoint if they were driving a child to a different county or if they were processing ten people for arrest. Where is the data on that? That is far more serious because these are mandatory checkpoints. My understanding of what has happened here is that this is a far bigger scandal. This is a problem with checkpoints, not breath tests.

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