Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It accept that it is important that this is done right, rather than rushed. We need to have this concluded as soon as possible but it is important that it is done correctly. In the context of a big concern in this regard, at our last meeting the witnesses were firm in trying to put people's minds at ease that, in so far as they are aware, all the cases that had been potentially incorrectly misclassified had been properly investigated. In the hearings we have had since then, some of the correspondence between members of the analysis service and the Garda flagged issues. I will quote from the transcript of one of those hearings. It states: "The deceased victims have not been given the respect and duty of investigation into their deaths that they deserve." It further states: "However, I cannot continue to identify instances of homicide as we continue in 2017 that are not recorded correctly or not knowing whether there is an adequate investigation been carried out into that person's death." Is Ms McPartlin satisfied that nothing has come to light as yet to suggest that any of these investigations were not Article 2 compliant?

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