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 remain in discussions with the Director of Public Prosecutions in respect of a number of these matters. That has not closed down. I am limited in what I can say in respect of the individual cases that we have brought before the director. Obviously, if we can resurrect a prosecution, we will seek to do so, but under the direction of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Within this, there are very serious matters. That is why we have embarked on an examination of the conduct of each member in respect of these cases and also whether that leads into supervision of the member as well. I have to be careful what I say. In law and in the regulations, I have given the divisional officers responsibility for discipline and I cannot be in a position to direct them or even by inference to do so. I acknowledge that some of this is very serious and looks bleak. We have to deal with that appropriately and if that means that these matters have to be dealt with through the discipline code, so be it.

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