Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Last year, GSOC wrote to the committee and set out a response to a number of issues that we raised with it. According to it, as a result of complaints received in 2020, 572 criminal investigations were opened, which contrasted with a figure of 485 in 2019. This could have major financial implications. In its response, GSOC also stated that its investigators had carried out non-criminal investigations, those being, investigations into alleged breaches of Garda disciplinary regulations. In 2020, 150 cases of this nature were opened with GSOC compared with 148 in 2019. GSOC investigators also supervised disciplinary investigations that had been returned to the Garda for investigation, with 106 such cases opened in 2020 compared with 105 in 2019. What is the situation with the 485 criminal investigations opened in 2019? It struck me as a high figure for a service of between 14,000 and 15,000 people.

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