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:
The letter and the briefing provide a comprehensive breakdown of the figures. They can be broken down further in terms of individual tables and that has been done in the draft interim report that was delivered to me. However, that report also contains detail which I cannot put in the public domain due to the possibility of identification of victims and the impact it would have on any potential consideration of discipline. It may be the case that the disciplinary aspect was not considered in previous Garda reports, which meant that more detail could be released into the public domain. That is not the position in this case. I must have due regard to a process-heavy discipline system and avoid creating a process weakness by putting certain information into the public domain.
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