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:
That depends on a couple of elements, including the discipline process that is under way. Some of the discipline processes may stretch on for many months but many can be dealt with quite quickly. I hope that we will get sufficient feedback within the next three to six months to be able to inform the committee and the Policing Authority of the progress made and the lessons learned based on the feedback from district and divisional officers regarding what they were told. In a substantial number of cases, prosecutions against juveniles were not progressed, but their adult co-accused were prosecuted. Proceedings in respect of those crimes took place in the adult courts; the cases against juveniles were not progressed. Other facts are yet to emerge in the examination of this matter.
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