Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That opens a question for us a committee because if that is concluded, we can have a separate discussion on that.

I wish to bring up the issues that have gone on in Limerick, which there is a lot of public discourse about. There are hundreds of articles of various kinds on it. I have a deep concern. I live near Limerick. The morale of An Garda Síochána in Limerick is on the floor. What has been going on here is deeply concerning. A number of cases have been brought forward and have been dropped and there other cases that obviously are not going to be referred to. Why is GSOC not, in the public interest, investigating what happened here? Why is it not investigating the investigators and investigating why these cases took so long? People's lives were effectively destroyed. Psychiatric help was needed and families were affected. The impact of all of this on some of these members is frankly outrageous. I just want to know in the public interest. By the way, another case has gone through the courts and the decision has gone around on WhatsApp all over the place. I will not refer to it, but it would give GSOC a lot of good brand and good scope if, in the public interest, it were to pursue cases where there are concerns about how they were dealt with. There are concerns, and I am not alone. Across politics in here there are concerns about what I am referring to, so why, in the public interest, are such case, which never actually end up being pursued, not being followed up by GSOC?