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

My main concern is that this murder happened in 1991. The Commissioner is a man of his word. At the meeting on 13 February, he said that he would meet the Oliver family, and he met them. The experience that he had in the PSNI and the job that he has done so far as Commissioner of the Garda is very good. People are responding to him. It is an awful shame that we cannot get closure on a murder that happened in July 1991. Some of the family members have died. The family is suffering. The fact that the PSNI and the Garda Síochána have the name of the person who ordered the murder of Tom Oliver and that it is sitting dormant is not fair. Something should be done and the name should be published. Where do we go from here?

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