Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Ms Laura Galligan:
I will say that since the new review group has been set up, we have been offered the resources and offered another analyst. The resources I need is to get the time to go to the State Pathologist's office to review the files physically and then to go back and collaborate them with PULSE.
As resources would help, I thanked the staff in the State Pathologist's office and I will thank them again. They offer a huge resource and assistance to me in completing this report. A formal communication needs to be established between both agencies, An Garda Síochána, the Office of the State Pathologist, and the coroners so that there is a kind of communication between us all in sharing data, especially in regard to the recording of deaths to ensure that we are getting it right.
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