Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Departmental Transformation Programme: Department of Justice and Equality

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

The new structures are designed to ensure new ways of working. These new ways of working include a new relationship with An Garda Síochána through a professional governance function which, as I said, will be supportive of the force but which will also be demanding of it, as well as of all the other bodies reporting into the Department. We have 25 agencies reporting into us, including An Garda Síochána, some of which are very big while others are very small but in all of them we must have a consistent approach to governance. That is one of the main thrusts of the reform that we-----

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