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

We have had complaints over the weekend from gardaí and their representative bodies saying that investigations about complaints lodged with GSOC about individual gardaí can take years. They outline the matter in stark terms. Judge Rory MacCabe stated that a further issue was that of resourcing. He stated: "The committee will – at the risk of my rehearsing the broken record I and my predecessors have in the past articulate to your members – be aware that GSOC continues to experience serious challenges with respect to resourcing, which has and continues to have a significant impact on our capacity to deal with an ever increasing caseload and on the duration of investigations." This letter is dated 16 November, so it was written and sent to the committee before the hullabaloo at the weekend and all that happened at the end of last week.