Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the head regarding informing superior officers about potentially facing a criminal charge that may be investigated and so on, I am not offering a firm view but I am trying to tease out how this is envisaged as operating. Lieutenant Colonel Priestley spoke about how the military police are currently not informed by the Garda Síochána where an investigation is taking place. Is that something we should be looking at in the legislation, that it becomes routine for An Garda Síochána to contact the military police and bring it to their attention, for the military police's own purposes and for the purposes of disciplinary procedures within the Defence Forces, that the Garda is investigating or has charged, as appropriate, a member of the Defence Forces? An Garda Síochána might object to that from an administrative point of view; I do not know. I understand there is a degree of personal responsibility when people are clearly under investigation or when they have been charged or interviewed under caution, but is there potentially a feasible mechanism that the military police would be officially informed by An Garda Síochána in appropriate circumstances?