Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As Chair of the committee, I want to take the opportunity to commend the Commissioner on taking the steps that he did in highlighting this. He was not historically responsible in terms of overseeing what happened. The action he took was absolutely correct. The reason I am asking the questions is to underscore just how serious the situation was whereby young offenders were left unchecked, unchallenged and unprosecuted. The consequence of that going on into later life was that they were going to offend again. I have no doubt that there has been a not insignificant level of recidivism, which is really the most serious aspect of An Garda Síochána's failure in this regard.