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. John Twomey:

The report states that we have identified policy issues and they are being and have been rectified. It has addressed governance issues and they have been addressed with the establishment of the new roads policing bureau. It has addressed supervision issues. They are currently being addressed in terms of the resource allocation and deployment. It has addressed issues of training and those issues are also being addressed. We had a previous question about behaviours. They are also being addressed through the culture audit and the code of ethics. It has also identified an IT fix. They have been and will continue to be introduced. It has identified a multiplicity of factors which have contributed to the issue. Each of those has been dealt with. We are in the process of doing further examinations, as the assistant commissioner, Mr. O'Sullivan, has said. We are also awaiting a report from Crowe Horwath and that will also influence the next steps. Nothing is completed. However, I have outlined action taken in six different areas. A lot of work has been done on that. There is work ongoing in other areas.

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