Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána
Mr. Drew Harris:
We met the families and we have re-established the Garda liaison. What we undertook to do was to consider this matter for what is, in effect, a serious case review. This involves doing an initial scoping of the material we have to see if we will embark on a serious case review. We have not finished that determination because a serious case review team is very much a finite resource and there are other matters - other murders - that are also awaiting a serious case review. When we come to the determination on that, we will meet again with the families and communicate to them the decision. Primarily, that would be the main route that we, as an investigative body charged with the responsibility to ensure a full investigation of this matter, could undertake. That would be in keeping with our roles and responsibilities in terms of this matter, which remains under active consideration.
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