Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Charles FlanaganCharles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have already dealt in her absence with all of the issues raised by Deputy Daly. I intend to bring forward legislative proposals on the independence and greater authority of GSOC. I acknowledge that GSOC is recruiting extra staff and expertise to allow it to deal adequately with its responsibilities and obligations in law. I expect to have the programme of legislative change on foot of the report charted early in the new year. Of course, I bring the matter to the committee. I do not accept that what we are doing in any way weakens or dilutes the powers of the authority and inspectorate. Rather, it is about further clarity on an issue that exercised this committee and many of its members in recent times. I expect that clarity will emerge in the context of the legislative proposals for the new bodies.

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