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:

I have to accept, as I said earlier, the findings of the report. The only findings I have at the moment are the result of Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan's piece of work. There is continuous work happening arising out of that report. There will be another report which, hopefully, will give us some indication as to where the actual issues were and what caused them. From the outset, on any of these issues, my focus would be on how it happened, why it happened and how we ensure that it does not happen again. In terms of the last piece, we have to start that work the moment we are aware of the problem. It is a hugely complex area because of the numbers involved and because it involves the whole country. While Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan's piece of work is very detailed. What he is saying essentially is that he has found nothing to corroborate certain aspects but if such evidence comes forward then, as I said earlier, where we have evidence of wrongdoing of any description by whatever rank in An Garda Síochána, those responsible will be held accountable.

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