Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion

Photo of Peter FitzpatrickPeter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Independent) | Oireachtas source

All the people in Drogheda want is help. It is a fantastic town. What has happened in the last few months cannot keep going on. The job that was done in Limerick was fantastic. It was fast and sharp. All that the people in Drogheda want is something similar to what happened in Limerick.

On 13 February, the first occasion on which the Commissioner attended the committee, we spoke about the murder of Tom Oliver, a husband and father of seven children who was murdered on 19 July 1991. He was abducted, tortured and brutally murdered by members of the Provisional IRA. His body was found across the Border in Belleeks in County Armagh. He had been shot in the head. The Commissioner stated that this was in the jurisdiction of the PSNI, which was investigating the murder. Since we spoke on 13 February, has he contacted the PSNI and has there been any update in the investigation of the Tom Oliver murder?

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