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

Dr. Shawna Coxon:

I appreciate the question and want to assure the Deputy that these are being investigated as serious misconduct. We have in fact started the disciplinary process. We are probably about halfway through it at this point in time. I do not want to answer the question about the WhatsApp chat group because as we move forward into disciplinary hearings, including tribunals, and having cases reviewed potentially by the DPP, I do not want to get into evidentiary pieces that could compromise that. However, we have started the process. Several discipline matters have commenced in terms of laying of misconduct on individuals and that process continues. It is an extremely lengthy process where the calls must be reviewed, all of them, by each member by the chief in charge, so it is quite a comprehensive process.

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