Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion

10:30 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

We will not have to wait for six months to get all of that information. It can be done in blocks on a year-by-year basis. As we get information from the State Pathologist, it can then be fed back to the chief superintendent and his team to ensure they can be working on that aspect of it.

The mistake we made in the past was to rush it and do it piecemeal. We then ended up having to do parts of it again. If we are to learn a lesson from the past, we need to integrate and verify the information in the data fields. Then we can come back with the reassurance the material is correct. The mistake we made last year was we did it piecemeal and not in a wholesome way.

We will certainly put in whatever resources we need. The only restriction will be the number of people in the analysis service who have the knowledge to integrate the State Pathologist's database. We only have one person with the knowledge and experience to do that for us. That is the stumbling block.

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