Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
A strategic information decision is sought from An Garda Síochána. My language may not be quite right but GSOC may ask the gardaí for information, whatever it is called, and then GSOC decides whether it will take a public interest investigation. I raised a particular incident and was concerned that it was not related to a public interest investigation. This related to a discharge of a firearm within a dwelling during the course of a raid in Cabra in Dublin. Video footage was published on some of the newspaper websites. Would Ms Justice Ring agree that an incident such as that would be appropriate for a public interest investigation? Should it not be the case that all discharges of firearms within dwellings require a public interest investigation?
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