Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

9:00 am

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a proposal that the Government says it will adopt that was put forward in the Toland report, the Mazars report and the Ernst and Young report, which was that the Department would be divided into two portfolios - one concerned with home affairs, which would include the policing division, and the other concerned with justice and equality, which would not deal with the policing division. How would Ms Justice Ring respond if GSOC was put into the latter portfolio under justice and equality away from the policing division? Would that not resolve the problem of perception?

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