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

Mr. Brian Sutton:

I wish to raise a few issues with the Deputy. Ms Lois West and Laura Galligan, who are key people of my team, are doing these 41 reviews. They have been tasked with and given plenty of work in line with their skills base. They attend the meetings and they give us feedback. On the classification of the 41 cases, everybody is happy where they sit at the moment with respect to classification of those 41 incidents in line with the crime counting rules and in line with the analysis service, pending the outcome of the review we are conducting at present.

With regard to the investigation process, there are 12 cases that we are happy have been done. We are happy those 12 cases were fully investigated.

There are data quality issues. Small issues have come to light that we are addressing in terms of fast-tracked methods such as people not being recorded as dead even though they were dead. There were other issues. When one lifts the rock, unfortunately, more than one worm appears underneath it. We are addressing those as we go along. In respect of when the 41 will be finished, we can do it quickly or we do it correctly and we will do it correctly and it will take that little bit longer. Does that address the Deputy's question?

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