Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Future Direction of An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner
9:00 am
Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I am not coming at this with any information I have and which I believe the Commissioner should have. It is not motivated in that way. However, I have been a member of the committee for longer than anyone else and sat here on numerous occasions with the last two Commissioners when information was not put in the public domain in a timely fashion once it had been discovered. I hope sincerely that if serious malpractice is uncovered, it will be made known to the committee, the Policing Authority and other relevant agencies at the first available opportunity. Openness and transparency are matters in respect of which change is required within An Garda Síochána. They have not been there to date, but we are moving very much in the right direction. As such, my purpose in asking the question is to give the Commissioner an opportunity to make the committee aware of anything significant, if there is, and, in that way, put it in the public domain. Obviously, there is not anything.
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