Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority

9:30 am

Ms Helen Hall:

With the policing plan, essentially we establish the performance targets. If there is a disagreement, we can still establish them, and that has been the case. I know it was something that was discussed the last time we were before the committee a number of years ago. As long as we maintain our independence and, at the end of the day, we are establishing the targets as an authority, you do not really want to impose something, and yet there have been times when we have said something is very woolly. Those discussions happen and there are tough discussions around it. That independence piece is very important and then looking into the so what, as it were. We do a critical assessment twice a year, which is published, and then there are changes to the plan for next year or a challenge as to why something should be remediated and questions relating to that. Is there anything else Ms Tumelty might want to add?

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